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In describing TMAP, Jones states, "The industry needed to create an aura of legitimacy and a body of favorable data to advance its marketing aims."

"TMAP arose during a period of decreased Food and Drug Administration (FDA) oversight and vastly increased sophistication in pharmaceutical industry marketing practices. These practices aggressively pursued favorable public and professional 'opinion' through media promotion, and biased reporting of drug trial results."

Jones estimates that if TMAP were implemented nationwide, the annual costs to the Medicaid programs would be approximately 3.7 billion dollars per year to treat one psychiatric disorder alone. That is over ten million dollars per day just in Medicaid expenditures.

Summary:

The vested interests of psychiatrists, psychologists and others involved in the President's New Freedom Commission has resulted in a biased report to the President, aimed solely at increasing their own reach into society, and to support an existing multi billion dollar mental health industry. Of the 22 members of the Commission, 13 are either on or have been on mental health boards or associations which set mental health policy at the state or federal level, 11 were associated in some way with the implementation of the Texas Medical Algorithm Program (TMAP) in their states, four are psychiatrists and three are psychologists.

The U.S. Government must not support mandatory mental health screenings, or the increase of subjective psychiatric diagnosis of Americans that then demand their taking dangerous psychiatric drugs or undergoing other harmful treatments.

In the 1950s, on the heels of the McCarthy era, psychiatric vested interests introduced a federal bill (H.R. 6376), which called for psychiatric facilities to be built in Alaska. It would have empowered any peace officer to involuntarily commit any individual, anywhere in America, to this Alaskan psychiatric institution-all without recourse. The person would then be shipped off to Alaska for mandatory confinement and "treatment." It was dubbed "The Siberia Bill" because if its far reaching totalitarian powers.

The bill had already passed the House of Representatives before the grassroots efforts of thousands of alarmed citizens helped to defeat the bill in the Senate.

Now Americans must again act to protect their rights. Before it's too late. If this "sweeping mental health initiative" occurs, it will be the first step towards A Brave New World, where ultimate control would belong to the mental health industry. Anyone could be diagnosed as "mentally ill." Given the fact that there is no medical or scientific proof needed to make a diagnosis, how will anyone be able to prove that they aren't "mentally ill" and don't need or want to be drugged?

The first step towards this Brave New World is mandatory mental health screenings.

Once all Americans are "screened" it won't be long before psychiatry demands mandatory drugging for all their new "patients."

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights is a mental health watchdog established by the Church of Scientology in 1969 to investigate and expose psychiatric violations of human rights.

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For more information contact the Citizens Commission on Human Rights at 800-869-2247.

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