Information: In 2003, a report on "mental health care" presented to the federal government recommended that all 52 million American schoolchildren be screened for "mental illness," claiming—without scientific evidence—that "early detection, assessment, and links with treatment" could "prevent mental health problems from worsening." On the contrary, mental health questionnaires and tests are and have been conducted in schools for years, including the TeenScreen™ program. Yet, rather than decreasing rates of child and adolescent "mental disorders," there has been a dramatic increase in children being placed on psychiatric drugs. Medical studies show that these drugs can cause violence, suicide, behavioral and serious physical problems and even death. Behavioral screening and mind-altering drugs are used instead of reinforcing educational basics.

• There is an 84% chance that a student will be incorrectly identified as at risk or suicidal by the TeenScreen ("depression" screening) program. The subjective questions used in this and other mental health screening questionnaires are based on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), which medical experts say is an unscientific and unreliable document.
  
  
• The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, an independent panel of experts in primary care and prevention, "found no evidence that screening for suicide risk reduces suicide attempts or mortality."
  
  
• A Journal of the American Medical Association study shows, "Despite a dramatic increase in treatment, no significant decrease occurred in suicidal thoughts, plans, gestures or attempts in the United States during the 1990s."
  
  
• Parents consenting to mental health screening are unaware that the DSM is not based on physical science; i.e., psychiatrists admit they do not know the cause of or cure for any mental disorder and have no x-ray, blood or any physical test to diagnose or determine one. All screening is based on subjective opinion, using personal and invasive questions that could lead to any child being prescribed mind-altering drugs.
  
  
• The number of children prescribed antidepressants has increased more than 10 fold since 1987. Studies show the drugs may double the risk of suicidal thoughts and actions and a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) "black box" label warns that antidepressants may cause suicide in those under 24.
  
  
• Antipsychotic drug prescriptions to children increased five-fold between 1993 and 2002, during which time 45 children died from the drugs. The drugs can also cause life-threatening diabetes.
  
  
• So-called Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) stimulant prescriptions increased 700% in the 1990s with the FDA now warning the drugs cause psychosis, mania, strokes, heart attacks and death. Between 1999 and 2003, 19 children died while taking stimulants. Today, 2.3 million American teens abuse the stimulants Ritalin and Adderall.
  
  
• Psychiatric drugs are prescribed for mental disorders that were developed by psychiatrists with financial ties to pharmaceutical companies that have accrued $27 billion in annual sales in the U.S. alone.
  
  
• While there have been reports of over 150 child deaths from antidepressants, stimulants and antipsychotics in recent years, only 1% to 10% of adverse drug reactions are reported to the FDA, which means the death toll could be as high as 15,000.
  
  
• One in six teachers reports being the victim of violence in or around school, which corresponds with psychiatric drug use in students.
  
  
• Eight out of 13 school shooters in recent years had been taking prescribed psychiatric drugs (antidepressants and/or stimulants) at the time of going on their violent shooting spree. [Drug use in the remaining incidents has not been publicly released.]
  

Some readers may remember back in mid-2008 when the FTC performed a witch hunt against 130 companies and one non-profit religious group who made claims about their products’ effectiveness in treating cancer. The FTC ordered that these entities remove all claims and testimonials and issue a statement to all their customers that drugs and radiation are the only useful and proven treatments for battling cancer and that none of the products or ingredients sold by these companies were helpful in preventing or treating illness.

Similarly, in 2005 the FDA threatened to raid cherry orchards who posted legitimate, peer-reviewed scientific studies on their websites about the health benefits of cherries, claiming that the dissemination of any information correlating cherries to health would cause the cherries to become unapproved drugs subject to seizure.

There have also been countless raids, including one back in January on a company who postulated that its health products treated depression and other illnesses. What resulted was the arrest and detention of the company’s owner by U.S. Federal Marshals for speaking the unapproved truth.

As lunatic as all of this sounds, this type of behavior has become normal operating procedure at the FDA and FTC whose unrestrained power continues to escalate into increasingly tyrannical control over free speech. As such, Rep. Paul’s three bills aim to end the illegitimate censorship of free speech and restore constitutional freedom of speech in natural health. Below are their summaries and information about how to support them.

HR 3394, The Health Information Protection Act, inhibits the FTC from acting against any entity for communicating the health benefits of its products unless the FTC presents “clear and convincing” evidence that those statements are false. In concordance with the Fifth Amendment, the burden of proof concerning an accusation of a false claim is to fall upon the accuser (FTC) to determine, with legitimate evidence, that a claim is false before demanding its removal. As it stands, the FTC has reversed the Fifth Amendment by preemptively and arbitrarily restraining communication without any evidence or reason while demanding that the accused party prove its claim to be true. HR 3394 will reinforce the already lawful Fifth Amendment that establishes the burden of proof upon the FTC to present a legitimate case before impeding any lawful communication. It will restore the freedom to communicate nutrient-disease health claims freely.

Similarly to HR 3394, HR 3395, The Health Freedom Act, will remove the unconstitutional FDA power of “prior restraint” over all nutrient-disease relationship claims. In other words, free speech health claims will no longer be universally banned but will be permitted. The burden of proof will properly and lawfully fall upon the FDA to establish “clear and convincing” evidence against a claim, after it has been made, if it believes a claim is false. The First Amendment of the Constitution was designed to protect the free speech of the people from the federal government imposing “prior restraint” on speech, the very thing the FDA has instated as the foundation for its operating procedure. This bill will preserve the proper and lawful prosecution of those who make false claims, but it will require the government and its agencies, particularly the FDA, to establish legitimate evidence against a claim that it believes to be false prior to taking any action against any person or entity rather, effectively restoring the First Amendment supremacy over the FDA.

Finally, HR 3396, The Congressional Responsibility and Accountability Act, addresses the roughly 90% of federal government law that is enacted not by Congress, as is mandated in the Constitution under the non-delegation doctrine, but by unelected bureaucratic agencies such as the FDA and FTC. As such, it would prohibit any law created by these agencies from being enacted without first being passed by Congress in concordance with Article I of the Constitution. HR 3396 will restore constitutional government by returning the responsibility of legislating law to Congress which will in turn protect the public from rogue federal agencies who tend to overstep their bounds and tyrannize the people.

While these bills mostly reinforce what is already provisioned in our Constitution, they represent the potential for reform by pinpointing specific areas for which our federal government and its agencies have unlawfully violated their roles and tyrannized people by outlawing free speech, particularly health speech. It is time to put these unelected bureaucracies in their place by supporting Rep. Ron Paul’s health freedom bills.

To find out more about the bills and to contact your representatives, please visit the following Life Extension action links:
HR 3394: The Health Information Protection Act
HR 3395: The Health Freedom Act
HR 3396: The Congressional Responsibility and Accountability Act

SOURCE:  http://blogs.healthfreedomalliance.org/blog/2009/08/11/ron-paul-introduces-three-new-bills-designed-to-restore-health-freedoms/

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