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Child
Medication Safety Act Did you know in several states, if you refuse to allow your child to be placed on psychiatric medication, social services can take your child from you and you can be charged with child neglect? Do
You Have School-Age Children? Protect
Them Now! If you have a child in the
public school system, you may have already been told that your child cannot be
allowed in school unless he or she is prescribed Ritalin or another drug for the
treatment of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). If this has not happened to
you, you're lucky, and your child is even luckier.
For despite all the press and "information" being issued on
ADHD, its neurological roots have yet to be supported by a shred of scientific
evidence. Any research you come
across on the physical causes of ADHD will be liberally sprinkled with terms
such as, "It is generally believed that..." and "It could be
inferred that..." Never
will you find, "ADHD is caused by _____ physical condition."
In fact, the Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, published by the American Psychiatric
Association and considered the basic reference on all such disorders, flatly
states, under ADHD's "Associated physical examination findings and general
medical conditions" that
"There are no specific physical features associated with
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, although minor physical
anomalies...may occur at a higher rate than in the general population."
These "anomalies" do not deal at all with the central nervous
system or even the brain. They
include a "highly arched palate", hypertelorism (having eyes too close
together), and "low-set ears". In truth, all that ADHD
"treatments" have really meant is billions of dollars in the pockets
of the drug companies that have somehow managed to pass off the lie that ADHD is
a neurological disorder. Given the lack of scientific
support for physical causes of ADHD, the U.S. Government is finally following in
the footsteps of some 19 states and making it against the law for school
personnel to insist that students be drugged as a condition for attending
school. On May 21, 2003 the House
of Representatives passed bill number H.R. 1170, known as the Child Medication
Safety Act of 2003, which makes it mandatory for all states to develop and
implement policies prohibiting school personnel from requiring a child to obtain
a prescription for ADHD medications. The
bill passed by a landslide vote of 425 to 1. But
the bill has not been enacted into law, and that's where you come in.
Although the bill has passed the House of Representatives, it is now
up to the United States Senate to finally pass the bill and make it law. You need to protect your
child from the abuses of compulsory prescription of these dangerous drugs. Call, write or fax your U.S. Senators today! If
you don't know who your U.S. Senators are, or don't know how to contact them,
you can get this information from the U.S. Senate Web site: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm?OrderBy=state&Sort=ASC Even if you don't have children of your own, do it for the rest of the children in America who have no rights to refuse being administered dangerous drugs. Do it for the parents that can lose their children if they refuse to let their child be forcibly medicated.
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