If Paul Revere were alive today, he'd be riding through our neighborhoods shouting for us to wake up. No, it's not the British that are coming while we sleep, it's a far more profound and insidious attack on our rights this time--and it starts with our children.
Link: Teenscreen: Adolescent suicide and mental health screening programs.
"It's just a way to put more people on prescription drugs," said Marcia Angell, a medical ethics lecturer at Harvard Medical School and author of "The Truth About Drug Companies." She said such programs will boost the sale of antidepressants even after the FDA in September ordered a "black box" label warning that the pills might spur suicidal thoughts or actions in minors. (The New York Post, December 5, 2004)