MindFreedom International News - 27 December 2007

http://www.mindfreedom.org

Three (3) Very Brief News Items on:

YOUTH and a Nonviolent Revolution in the Mental Health System!

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1) Today's Boston Globe:

Massachusetts Mental Screening of Youth May Lead to More

Psychiatric Drugs

Today's Boston Globe has a front page story about how nearly 500,000

Massachusetts youth on Medicaid will be required, starting Monday, to

undergo psychiatric screening. Experts are concerned this will lead to

lots more youth on psychiatric drugs without adequate advocacy,

alternatives, information or rights.

Go to the Boston Globe article here:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/youth-mental-health/screening-massachusetts

or use this link: http://tinyurl.com/2h9wje

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2) Free Online Video Premiere on Youth & Mental Health!

MindFreedom Campaign: "Youth Voices for Choices in Mental Health"

MindFreedom’s youth campaign has made another step into the digital

world. MindFreedom Youth Coordinator Martin Rafferty joined together

seven different youth, with very different backgrounds, on a panel.

Most youth had labels pasted on them by the mental health care system and

were prescribed many psychiatric drugs. Others escaped psychiatric

attention. Each youth was asked to share their unique opinion about the

current state of the mental health system.

You can see a free preview of the conversation online here:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/mfi-video/youth-panel

or use this link: http://tinyurl.com/yvh9md

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3) "Hannity's America" TV Show Looks at Psychiatric Drugs & Youth

Violence

This is a video from Sunday night, 16 December 2007 via Fox News, of the

television show "Hannity's America" with Doug Kennedy on the subject of

the alleged role of antidepressant psychiatric drugs in incidents of

violence. [This video is not by MFI.]

See the video free online here:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/youth-mental-health/hannity-doug-kennedy-antidepressants/

or use this link: http://tinyurl.com/2hojxv

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THANK YOU to the many people who immediately e-mailed the USA

National Institute of Mental Health to object to their "drug drug

drug drug drug" strategic plan. You can read a few of these comments,

along with how to comment to the NIMH now that the deadline has passed,

here:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/psych-drug-corp/nimh-strategic-plan

or use this link: http://tinyurl.com/3a6lod

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ALSO NEW at the MindFreedom web site:

* You can download a new, free MindFreedom flyer to photocopy and

distribute, here:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/brochure

* See how humor & music are being used to promote human rights in

mental health here:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/mental-health-arts

* See video clip of MLK talking about "creative maladjustment" here:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/mfi-video/mlk

* More news at the MindFreedom News Web Site:

http://www.mindfreedom.org

Don't see a news item? Submit it to news@mindfreedom.org

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