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Psychiatric
Screening - Destroying Lives for Profit
Freedom
Magazine Psychiatry Article Earns Religion Communicators Council Award
Freedom
Magazine, a Church of Scientology
International publication has been recognized by the
Religion
Communicators Council (RCC) with the 2009 DeRose-Hinkhouse Memorial
Awards Certificate of Merit for writing on the web. The award went to
Psychiatric Screening:
Destroying Lives for Profit, for its dispassionate look at the facts
and figures of this psychiatric experiment and its casualties-our
children.
The
award-winning article details the case of Aliah Gleason, who was taken
from school without her parents’ consent and placed in Austin
State Hospital. Aliah was hospitalized simply because her parents
refused to place their 11-year-old daughter on dangerous psychiatric
drugs that the FDA warns “increase the risk of suicidal
thinking and behavior (suicidality) in children and
adolescents.” And Aliah was prescribed these drugs based only
on her answers to the questions in a school-based psychiatric screening
program.
The
Freedom feature traces the background of this experiment in human
behavior, finding that such programs have ties to multibillion-dollar
interests that will profit enormously from their implementation.
Purporting
to prevent child suicide, screening programs factually increase its
risk, according to Freedom Magazine. The article cites a Duke
University study that found that surveys can influence behavior and
conduct. Thus, the article notes, “…screening
programs have made some health practitioners nervous that
peoples’ problems will worsen by being pumped with questions
about depression and thoughts of suicide.”
The
Religion
Communicators Council is an interfaith association of religion
communicators at work in print and electronic communication, marketing
and in public relations. The DeRose-Hinkhouse Memorial Awards are
presented annually to members of the RCC who demonstrate excellence in
religion communications and public relations.
Premised
on the principles of human rights, Freedom Magazine has been a catalyst
for groundbreaking reforms in the public interest and has been broadly
hailed as a leading voice for human rights and civil liberties for more
than 40 years. Freedom Magazine is published by the Church of
Scientology International. Scientology churches publish 20 local and
regional editions of the magazine.
To
read the award-winning article and for more information on Freedom
Magazine, visit its web site at www.freedommag.org
or the official Scientology site at www.scientology.org.
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