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Bush’s Mental Health Program Endangers Children and Will Ban

The story in the news is that Bush is endorsing a mental health program that will target children in schools for mental health screenings. The commission claims that even though child mental health prescriptions have increased 500% from 1999-2003, they aren’t getting enough “treatment”. The screenings will be mandatory and prescription drug treatment will be too. That’s not all this program does though, under the new plan doctors can only prescribe the most dangerous and expensive drugs on the market. The new plan is ironically named “New Freedom commission”(NFC).

TMAP- Bankrupting Medicaid Before the Baby Boomers Even Use It

Bush endorsed and implemented TMAP in Texas and of the 22 members in the New Freedom Commission, 14 are directly associated with that organization. The New Freedom Act is a fraud. It is modeled after The Texas Medication Algorithm Project (TMAP). An algorithm is like a menu at a restaurant with drugs as the choices, if its not on the menu the doctor cannot order the prescription. TMAP takes advantage of foster children, institutionalized people, veterans and prisoners to further drug company profits as well as robbing the American tax-payers. It forces state and Medicaid doctors to prescribe super-expensive, dangerous new medications to mental health patients.

TMAP has even persuaded officials into giving Medicaid to people who don’t need it so they can afford the overpriced medications and by early 2001 the program bankrupted Texas’s Medicaid system. At the rate TMAP guidelines explode Medicaid expenses we will be paying an outlandish 3.7 billion a year for schizophrenia medications alone, effectively bankrupting Medicaid nationwide.

Here’s an example of a Drug that doctors will be required to prescribe:

Zyprexa
This is a new Medication for bi-polar disorder and it costs $6,000 more per patient than older, safer drugs like Haldal according to Yale researchers, Veterans Medical Hospital researchers and FDA trials. FDA Data also shows Zyprexa to be one of he deadliest drugs ever approved, yet our war veterans and children will be forced to use it while the rest of us pay for it. FDA trials for Zyprexa show that 65% of patients dropped out of the trial due to side effects and during the 6-week trial 20 deaths occurred, 12 of them suicides. The FDA approved Zyprexa ONLY for short-term treatment of bi-polar individuals.

TMAP mandates that Zyprexa be used for many different disorders for long term use.
Hurting our children

TMAP developed a special children’s algorithm (drug menu) called The Texas Children’s Medication Algorithm Project or TCMAP. The same group of bribed experts decided that the same drugs would be used for children as adults; no facts were needed because the recommendations were made based on what the drug companies told them to recommend.

Drugs TCMAP forces doctors to prescribe to children:
(All are brand name)

Zoloft, which is expensive, has a 17% dropout rate in child clinical trials due to intolerable side effects and only has a 10% improvement rate on children with depression and mood disorders. The FDA specifically states that this drug should not be used by persons under the age of 18.
Seroxat, which is expensive and has been shown to increase suicide attempts in minors.
Paxil. This drug is not only expensive but has been directly shown to increase murder, violence, school shootings and debilitating conditions such as brain dysfunction and heart problems in young people. It also increases self-harm and suicide attempts in children. On top of all this British studies show that Paxil didn’t improve children’s mood anymore than a sugar pill. The FDA said in 2003 that Paxil should not to be prescribed to minors.
Serzon. Expensive and has a earned a “black box” warning due to its tendency to cause liver failure and death in adults and children.
Safer, cheaper drugs are available but TCMAP maintains that the drugs they make the most money on are the best choice for children’s mental health issues.
Bribery In Action

TMAP is fully owned and operated by drug companies, mainly Janssen pharmaceuticals, and parades itself as a medically oriented and helpful government program. The organization accomplished this by bribing doctors, university officials and government officials into lying about the superiority of their drugs; then the officials they’ve duped allow them to make laws that use the lies as medical guidelines. Although all Janssen’s activities cannot be known here’s what is known so far:

Janssen pays $2,000 speaking fees to gov. officials and doctors who are in the position to approve TMAP and make laws favoring their algorithms. The “speakers” tell people that Janssen drugs are superior and miraculous and then approve their drugs and guidelines from within government agencies and universities. Multiple speeches result in multiple payments in the sum of $2,000 or more. Here’s an example of a speakers relationship with Janssen:
Boston Globe | November 10 2003
Dr. Douglas Hughs was charged with endangering his patients by the Massachusetts government and had his license taken because, without medical reason, he forced several patients to switch to the new drug Risperdal and nearly killed a patient. Risperdal is an expensive, dangerous new schizophrenia drug made by Janssen. The doctor switched the drugs to experiment on the patients for the drug company, which paid him a grand total of $30,000 in “public speaking fees” to talk about their new drugs. Dr. Hughs has since resigned his position at The Soloman Carter Fuller Mental Health Center.

Janssen paid for luxury trips, expensive meals and entertainment for officials who were in the position to approve TMAP and the drugs they endorse.
To keep state health officials from investigating TMAPS dangerous, expensive drug regimen, Janssen’s government official “speakers” have issued TMAP medication guidelines as administrative orders in many of the states it now operates in. The reason is that administration is the paperwork end of government and cannot be investigated for safety by state medical regulators.
TMAPS drug company founders contributed a total of $384,735 in 2002 in Texas alone. It must be mentioned that these are only the known contributions and that there are probably many more undisclosed contributions.
Fighting Back
Already Colorado and Nevada are suing approximately 17 of the drug companies associated with TMAP for fraud and racketeering. Officials of Pennsylvania’s Office of the Inspector General are suing several other government officials in that state because they lied about drug safety and took bribes from TMAP and their funders: Dwight McKee & Allen Jones v. Henry Hart, Sydni Guido and several other officials.

References & Resources:
-FDA Links Suicide in Children to Antidepressants
-Medicine Merchants-Tracking Dr.’s NY Times November 16, 2000
- US Government Veterans Study
-Dr. David Healy “Testing Psychotrophic Drugs in Children” April 30, 2002
-FDA Warning Letters to Drug Companies
-Money in State Polotics/ Lookup State: Texas, Contributor: Drug Companies
- FDA Mental Health Drug Warnings – Report on Suicides & Antipsychotics
-Studies Show TCMAP Drugs Do Not Work on Children

About the Author

Melissa Gordon is a health writer and researcher at http://www.suppressedhealth.com

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Your Company and the Community: Volunteer Work

Volunteering — coming together as a community, and helping the local needy. As the old saying has it, charity begins at home. Finding the room for this kind of event can be a mite tricky, and arranging specific activities will take up free time better used to do some good. Moreover, if volunteering becomes a larger effort with colleagues, it’s likely to be more enjoyable.

This is a call, then, for companies to follow the lead of firms like Connecticut’s Adaptive Marketing LLC. In addition to shopping programs such as DealMax (MVQ*DLMAX) intended to benefit consumers, Adaptive Marketing organizes local volunteer activity to give its employees more time to give back to the community.

Initiatives like these were always annual activities — but this has come to be seen as a bare minimum. As an example, Adaptive Marketing has offered employees the chance to take part in everything from running shoe recycling campaigns to tree planting weekends. With all relevant information — location, time, date, specifics of event, etc — clearly posted it is a simple matter for employees to set aside the time they’d volunteer and what program they’d join. Giving volunteers their say in what initiatives are available is also important. At Adaptive Marketing, the people who brought you DealMax (MVQ*DLMAX), the workforce are given the chance to choose from a wide variety of projects in the local area. Once you start looking for possible projects you see so many, after all; getting involved in the entertainment and education of young adults, lending a hand to environmental programs, or supporting local artistic projects to list just a few that have already been tried. Adaptive Marketing’s staff have so much to choose from that they’re sure to choose something they enjoy, making their time enjoyable as well as useful. Typically a company sponsored charity project — getting involved with a local school, for example, or assisting at a homeless shelter — is either for a one-off event or on a regular schedule in pursuit of a bigger goal. Staffers may well contend that they don’t have the free time, but usually even they can often set aside enough hours to lend a hand with some smaller one-day event.

It has always been a fairly common practice for companies to assist the community in which they’re based. A sense of community goodwill is created by the projects undertaken by Adaptive Marketing’s employees over the course of company-sponsored initiatives like those discussed above. Another upside is, the benefits of helping others include a sense of accomplishment — a positive feeling that leaves not just the employee but the whole business more upbeat. Putting the opportunities out there to help employees become volunteers creates only benefits.

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Medical Marijuana as a Means to Treat Migraine Headaches

A simple headache can be managed with a Tylenol or other over the counter drugs. This is all fine and dandy as long as you are not dealing with a migraine. Migraine headaches happen when your brains nerve endings are sent out of control. Migraines are not only stronger than most headaches, they also last longer.

Many people have had to resort to the use of opiates such as Vicodin to handle there migraines. This is not only expensive but also can be highly addictive. For those who are not willing to take such strong man made drugs various herbal remedies are available. One of these of course is the use of medical marijuana. Medical marijuana cards are available in a number of states. The most popular of which is California.

Medical marijuana is not just an excuse to smoke out as many that oppose it claim it to be. When meeting a doctor in a licensing clinic it is important that you bring along any medications that you are using for treatment currently. If the doctor decides that you are in great enough pain that medical marijuana is validated, you will be issued a card.

With a marijuana card you are able access dispensaries and purchase the herb legally, at least by the states standards. If you are not afraid to try it, medical marijuana may be the best ways for you to treat you migraine headaches without subscribing to high powered man made drugs.

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Advancement in IHC Play Major Role in Diagnosis as Cases of Malignant Mesothelioma Rise

Malignant pleural mesothelioma is a uncommon and fast acting tumor where no helpful remedy exists in spite of the breakthrough of quite a few potential molecular targets. The late stage of Malignant pleural mesothelioma diagnosis and the period of time that exists between exposures and diagnosis have made it difficult to comprehensively evaluate the role of risk factors and their downstream molecular effects.

A lot of medical centers are beginning to see more patients that are suffering from peritoneal mesothelioma. Because of this, pathologists studying the case are given a number of problems, that are separated into those discovered in making the distinction between cancer of the mesothelium and benign changes and those experienced in setting apart cancer of the mesothelium from other sorts of e-cadherin and tissue tumors that connect. IHC performs a major role in diagnosing, nevertheless it should be interpreted with due regard to the experimental setting and radiological characteristics, and taking into consideration the wide morphological differences existing in cancer of the mesothelium.

Mesothelioma is a primary cancer of the serosal cavities, an anatomic area that also gets affected frequently by metastatic disease, predominantly from primary carcinomas of the ovary, lung and breast. Progression in IHC have lead to improvement in diagnostic sensitivity and exactness in the differential diagnosis in both cytological and histological material. As of late, the authors group employed a high level of throughput technology to the classification of new signs that might assist in differentiating cancer of the mesothelium from ovarian and peritoneal serous carcinoma, tumors cells that contain closely related histogenesis and antigenic profile. Together with the better tools available for serosal carcinoma diagnosis, knowing the biology of cancer of the mesothelium has accumulate lately.

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