Man, you seal up one hole and they start worming through somewhere else. Tx already has laws on the books that would prevent any school personel from diagnosing/demanding psych services and to prevent CPS from removing children if their parents do not acquire psych services.
Now this:
Texas House Bill 470 - which would implement the Presidents New Freedom Commission on Mental Health is literally being looked at in committee right now, today.
A quick update: this bill would allow the school systems to screen every child for mental illness in the school system like getting an eye exam,
without parental permission. This opens the door to dangerous mind-altering drugs being perscribed for any little life upset that we all go through.
Since drugs are much less expensive than talk therapy the drugs will be a first line treatment for these things. About every psychiatric drug has very dangerous side effects and the drugs effect every organ system in the body.
Many of these drugs have severe withdrawals, if the child can actually withdraw, that can include suicide and aggression for the antidepressants.
Lactating breasts for small boys and girls, diabetes, massive weight gain, and psychosis are some of the symptoms of many of the drugs used to treat mental disorders,. These are not safe treatments. This bill is extremely dangerous to our precious children, especially the gifted and unique children that will potentially be our leaders and artists in the future.
I ask that everyone in Texas make a point of calling the committe member's offices and voice your concerns for this bill, especially the mental
screening of children and implementing mental health services in the schools, this is strickly a duty of the parent, the one who knows thier
child best and not an function of the state. We have heard stories from all over Texas and the country where schools insist on drugging children against the parents wishs and call Child Protective Services when the parents will not comply. This opens the door to more of this.
Here is the bill :
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlo/79r/ ... 00470I.HTM Here is the wording:
The Department of State Health Services shall ensure that local behavioral health service delivery systems further the following goals: (3) making early behavioral health screening,
assessment, and referral to services a common practice by:
(A) promoting the behavioral health of young children;
(B) improving public school system behavioral health programs; and
(C) screening for co-occurring mental and substance abuse disorders and treating persons with integrated treatment strategies. (b) In providing assistance under Subsection (a) of this section, the Department of State Health Services shall examine and promote the solutions to challenges in the mental health care system that are identified by the President's New Freedom
Commission on Mental Health in its July 2003 final report.
Here are the committee members and phone numbers:
Rep Suzanna Hupp Capitol Phone: (512) 463-0684
Rep. Rob Eissler Capitol Phone: (512) 463-0797
Rep. John Davis Capitol Phone: (512) 463-0734 ***************Author of this bill
Rep. Alma Allen Capitol Phone: (512) 463-0744
Rep. Yvonne Gonzalez Toureilles Capitol Phone: (512) 463-0645
Rep. Toby Goodman Capitol Phone: (512) 463-0562
Rep. Elliott Naishtat Capitol Phone: (512) 463-0668
Rep. Ken Paxton Capitol Phone: (512) 463-0356
Rep. Elvira Reyna Capitol Phone: (512) 463-0464
