Mind-altering prescription drugs for African American children: another

[radwriter0555]

Tuskagee?

NAACP takes a stand against widespread labeling and drugging

Just mention Tuskegee, Ala., and most will recall the plight and degradation of hundreds of Black men at the hands of “medical experts” who had promised to make them well. Beginning in 1932, the federal government sponsored a study involving Black men to examine the impact of syphilis. Eager to take advantage of any kind of medical care that was free, black men signed up in droves. Little did they know that they would be part of a 40-year secret medical “Tuskegee experiment” that not only wasn’t intended to cure their disease, but when cures became available, they would be denied them.

Today we are witnessing a different but just as insidious tragedy with thousands of African American children in special education and foster care programs being labeled as “dysfunctional” and prescribed mind-altering drugs. Passed off to parents as providing their children with necessary help, many say the programs are simply a feeder-line for the psychiatric prescription drug industry, with over $1 billion in annual stimulant sales.

African Americans comprise only 16 percent of the total U.S. student population, yet they comprise nearly one-third of the students in special education programs and 40 percent of the children in foster care. The result? According to one New York study, minority boys are 11 times more likely to be placed on mind-altering prescription drugs. Parents are also being forced to put their children on such drugs as a requisite for their education.

The problem is so pervasive that at the 94th Annual NAACP National Convention in Miami Beach, Fla., in July, NAACP delegates and National Board members joined President and CEO Kweisi Mfume and Chairman Julian Bond in unanimously passing a resolution in support of the Child Medication Safety Act of 2003 (S. 1390). The act prevents school personnel from forcing parents to put their children on psychiatric drugs to receive educational services.

fascinating, more here.... http://www.sfbayview.com/122403/mindaltering122403.shtml

[ElsewheresDaughter]

1. this is sick...i will forward this to all on my @ ...thanks rad i concur

[Karenina]

2. What does anyone care?

They're BROWN!! Let it drop into the archives...

[grasswire]

3. and if that doesn't work..........

......we'll send 'em to prison! That'll break up their families and render them unable to vote!

[radwriter0555]

4. BUT if they end up in prison, that will fatten the wallets of the GOP

privatized prison contractors.

We know how that all works.

The GOP donor pharm cos get rich on THIS end, while the GOP privatized school corps CEOS get rich off the US taxpayer dollar when they're in the schools that will take whacked out kids, and the GOP privatized prison CEOS get rich LATER when they become crooks and thugs due to over-medication!

Sucha deal.