Mental Health Questionnaires and Assignments in Schools

In 2002, the U.S. New Freedom Commission on Mental Health was established and charged with the responsibility to conduct a comprehensive study of the United States mental system, and to advise the President on methods to improve this system. In 2003, it issued a report that recommended that all American schoolchildren be screened for mental illness, claiming—without proof—that "early detection, assessment, and links with treatment" could "prevent mental health problems from worsening." "Treatment" ultimately means drugs that can create lifetime psychiatric patients—for which the government and insurance companies can be billed.

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