We have put together a suggested Action Plan to help you prevent the drugging of America's children through TeenScreen and similar "mental health" programs that seem to think that a drugged America is a good thing:

Action Plan

One: Get informed on exactly what the TeenScreen program is all about. This site is a good place to start. A significantly large proportion of the children that go through the TeenScreen test will wind up in psychiatric or mental health practitioner hands—even though TeenScreen is says they don't specify any particular "treatment". TeenScreen is a product of the Psychiatric Department at Columbia University! According to our research, 9 out of 10 pediatric patients that go to see a psychiatrist are prescribed drugs. TeenScreen says that only 24% of the kids that are referred end up on drugs. Still—multiply that figure by how many kids there are in the U.S. (remember that TeenScreen's goal is to screen every child in the U.S.) and that will mean MILLIONS of kids on Prozac, Zoloft, Ritalin, Xanax and other drugs stated by the FDA to be dangerous to children. You will start to realize that the pharmaceutical companies stand to make BILLIONS EACH YEAR with their new found "consumers".

Two: Forward the address of this site (www.teenscreentruth.com) and the information on it far and wide to everyone you know. TALK IT UP! Everywhere you go let others know. School football games, the grocery store, Mother's Club, blogs, chat boards and forums, PTA meetings, school board meetings...........DON'T BE SHY! Our kids lives are at stake.

Three: Ask your school districts, "Do you have any mental health screening at any of the schools?" You may call, write or send e-mails. You can usually find your Principal's, Superintendent's and School Board e-mail addresses, mailing address and phone numbers on the school website. Most schools have a website, they may have a button that says "Contact Us", click on that and leave them a message.

NOTE: We have run across the fact that principals, school boards and even superintendents, had no knowledge that this screening was taking place in their own schools. It may be needed to send a couple of e-mails out or make more then one phone call, include the nurse's office if possible. Please let us know of any responses you get and from whom.

Four: Link your site to ours. If you have a website or know someone that does, put a link to this site on the website. Our site address is: http://www.teenscreentruth.com

Five: Write letters to your school district. After getting informed on TeenScreen yourself, write a letter to your school district and inform THEM about the dangers of this program. Refer them to this site.

Six: Write letters to editors about what will happen as the result of TeenScreen (i.e. millions of kids on drugs) of your hometown newspapers. Write letters and send e-mails to your politicians, let them know how you feel and inform them of the dangers.

Contact information for your Senator:
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

Contact information for your Representative:
http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW.shtml

Seven: Protect your own children. If you or someone you know has children in the public school system, go here and print a copy of this "Parental Informed Consent Notice" to prevent them from being screened:

http://www.teenscreentruth.com/Parental_Informed_Consent_Notice.doc

A copy should be put in your child's personal folder at the school. Send copies to the teachers that work with your child, the Principal and the nurse's office.

What to do if your child is already in psychiatric or mental health hands or has been referred there through TeenScreen:

Don't Buy the PR: Regardless of how much TeenScreen and mental health practitioners publicize that they are here to "help our kids", the simple fact is that your children will probably wind up on (or are already on) antidepressants or other dangerous pharmaceutical psychiatric drugs—drugs that the FDA has labeled with Black Box Warnings as being dangerous for children. That's not help, it's making your kid a legal drug addict! Haven't you told your kids to "Say No to Drugs"?

Alternative Treatments: Check out the links on our Related Topics page for alternative methods of dealing with kids in trouble. Many times the actual problem can be due to an undiagnosed physical illness, physical toxicity, food and/or chemical allergies, study problems (which can be corrected without drugs) or a simple nutritional deficiency which is creating the symptoms the psychs call "mental illness." Psychiatrists never test for these conditions. We highly recommend investigating alternatives before falling for the automatic answer from mental health practitioners that your children have "social anxiety disorder" just because they feel nervous in front of groups (who doesn't), or "ADHD" because they have some difficulty in school, or any of the hundreds of "mental illnesses" dreamed up to describe normal human responses.

Read about the violence and death caused by antidepressants: Read our Link Between Psychiatry, Drugs and Suicide page to view the long list of children and adults who have been pushed over the edge by pharmaceutical psychiatric drugs into committing brutal murders, extreme violence and suicide. The pharmaceutical companies know about these "side effects" but aren't talking. They think that the risk (to your children) is worth their profits.

Contact us for help: Use the Contact Us page to send us an email about what's happening with your child. We can get you in contact with the proper groups and people who can help with non-psychiatric methods.