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Mental Health Industry Facts

  • Most teachers and school boards are concerned about increasing costs and less funding, while trying to maintain academic standards and in an increasingly dangerous school environment.

  • A review of acts of violence in U.S. schools since 1998 reveals that 38% of children and teens responsible for these crimes were taking psychiatric drugs. The relationship of psychiatric drugs in the remaining school shootings has not been publicly disclosed or the student’s records are sealed.

  • Despite a public warning from the FDA that stimulants can cause psychosis, hallucinations, heart attacks and death, nearly $30 billion of Special Education funds in the United States are spent on children diagnosed as “learning disordered,” who typically are prescribed psychiatric drugs. Moreover, a federally-funded-study found that 80% of those children simply had never been taught properly to read.

  • Parents and teachers are not informed that “Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder” (ADHD) is not a neurobiological disorder as psychiatrists claim. There is nothing neurological, biological, chemically-imbalanced or genetic about it.

  • Numerous medical and educational experts have been critical of the fact that there is no medical test to substantiate ADHD or any learning disorder as a neurobiological or physical disability. In September 2005, the Oregon Health & Science University’s Evidence-Based Practice Center published a report, “Drug Class Review on Pharmacologic Treatments for ADHD,” which had reviewed 2,287 studies—virtually every study ever conducted on ADHD drugs—and determined that there were no trials showing the long term effectiveness of these drugs on academic performance.

  • Similar studies of the dangers of psychiatric drugs prescribed for ADHD resulted in parents taking legal action against schools that forced them to administer these drugs to their children as a requisite for their education.

  • Millions of children and adolescents are also taking antidepressants that British, Australian, European and U.S. drug regulatory agencies have warned can cause psychosis, aggression, hallucinations and suicide.

  • There were at least 45 child deaths between 2000-2004 attributed to antipsychotic drugs (tranquilizers) in the United States alone and potentially 35,000 child deaths from all psychiatric drugs.

  • Another threat to schools is proposals to screen students for “mental illness,” using such fraudulent programs such as TeenScreen. Lawsuits have already been filed against school officials. Educators are not informed that there is no science behind any psychiatric diagnosis, especially those attributed to children’s behavioral or learning problems.

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