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> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2007 12:42 AM
> Subject: MFNews: Youth Mental Health Scandals Make News - 3 brief items
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>
> MindFreedom International News - 27 December 2007
> http://www.mindfreedom.org - please forward
>
> Three (3) Very Brief News Items on:
>
> YOUTH and a Nonviolent Revolution in the Mental Health System!
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>    1) Today's Boston Globe:
>
>    Massachusetts Mental Screening of Youth May Lead to More
> Psychiatric Drugs
>
> Today's Boston Globe has a front page story about how nearly 500,000
> Massachusetts youth on Medicaid will be required, starting Monday, to
> undergo psychiatric screening. Experts are concerned this will lead
> to lots more youth on psychiatric drugs without adequate advocacy,
> alternatives, information or rights.
>
> Go to the Boston Globe article here:
>
> http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/youth-mental-health/screening-
> massachusetts
>
> or use this link: http://tinyurl.com/2h9wje
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>    2) Free Online Video Premiere on Youth & Mental Health!
>
>    MindFreedom Campaign: "Youth Voices for Choices in Mental Health"
>
> MindFreedom’s youth campaign has made another step into the digital
> world. MindFreedom Youth Coordinator Martin Rafferty joined together
> seven different youth, with very different backgrounds, on a panel.
>
> Most youth had labels pasted on them by the mental health care system
> and were prescribed many psychiatric drugs. Others escaped
> psychiatric attention. Each youth was asked to share their unique
> opinion about the current state of the mental health system.
>
> You can see a free preview of the conversation online here:
>
> http://www.mindfreedom.org/mfi-video/youth-panel
>
> or use this link: http://tinyurl.com/yvh9md
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>    3) "Hannity's America" TV Show Looks at Psychiatric Drugs & Youth
> Violence
>
> This is a video from Sunday night, 16 December 2007 via Fox News, of
> the television show "Hannity's America" with Doug Kennedy on the
> subject of the alleged role of antidepressant psychiatric drugs in
> incidents of violence. [This video is not by MFI.]
>
> See the video free online here:
>
> http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/youth-mental-health/hannity-doug-
> kennedy-antidepressants/
>
> or use this link: http://tinyurl.com/2hojxv
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> THANK YOU to the many people who immediately e-mailed the USA
> National Institute of Mental Health to object to their "drug drug
> drug drug drug" strategic plan. You can read a few of these comments,
> along with how to comment to the NIMH now that the deadline has
> passed, here:
>
> http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/psych-drug-corp/nimh-strategic-plan
>
> or use this link: http://tinyurl.com/3a6lod
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> ALSO NEW at the MindFreedom web site:
>
> * You can download a new, free MindFreedom flyer to photocopy and
> distribute, here:
>
> http://www.mindfreedom.org/brochure
>
> * See how humor & music are being used to promote human rights in
> mental health here:
>
> http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/mental-health-arts
>
> * See video clip of MLK talking about "creative maladjustment" here:
>
> http://www.mindfreedom.org/mfi-video/mlk
>
> * More news at the MindFreedom News Web Site:
>
> http://www.mindfreedom.org
>
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>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Build united strength in numbers!
>
> JOIN MINDFREEDOM INTERNATIONAL!
>
> http://www.mindfreedom.org/join-donate
>
> * Win human rights campaigns in mental health.
>
> * End abuse by the psychiatric drug industry.
>
> * Support self-determination of psychiatric survivors.
>
> * Promote safe, humane, effective options in mental health.
>
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>
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>
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> Please forward.
>
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