<div style="text-align: right;"><font face="Garamond"><font face="Garamond"><span style="font-style: italic;">Seneca Room</span></font></font><br style="font-style: italic;">
<font face="Garamond"><font face="Garamond"> <span style="font-style: italic;">1 Choke Cherry Road</span></font></font><br>
<font face="Garamond"><font face="Garamond"> <span style="font-style: italic;">Rockville, MD
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<h3><a name="quagmire_biological_psychiatry"></a>Quagmire
of
biological psychiatry</h3>
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<td style="vertical-align: top;"> <font face="Garamond">Dall'autorevolissimo <a href="http://www.medscape.com/" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Medscape</a>
/ from the
most and mainstream authoritative <a href="http://www.medscape.com/" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Medscape</a> </font></td>
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<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><font face="Garamond"><b><a href="http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/568939?src=mpnews" style="font-style: italic;">Evidence-Based or Biased
Evidence?</a></b></font> </div>
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<div align="justify"><span style="font-style: italic;"><font style="font-family: mistral;" face="Mistral" size="+2">You
might get
the impression from
the published literature that [these drugs] are consistently effective;
however,
the outcome of this study is that they are effective, but
inconsistently so</font>,<font face="Garamond">
lead study author, Eric H. Turner, MD, from <a href="http://www.ohsu.edu/" style="font-weight: bold;">Oregon
Health
and Science
University</a>, in Portland, Oregon, told <font face="Garamond"><i style="font-style: italic;">Medscape
Psychiatry</i>.</font><font style="font-family: mistral;" face="Mistral" size="+2">Evidence-based
medicine is
valuable to the extent that the evidence is complete and unbiased,</font><font face="Garamond">
he noted,
adding that <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">selective
publication of clinical trials can alter the apparent
risk/benefit ratio</span> of drugs, which can affect prescribing
decisions.</font></font></span></div>
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<div align="justify"><font face="Garamond"> </font></div>
<hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px; margin-left: 40px;" align="justify"> <font face="Garamond">The
FDA's October 2003 public health advisory described reports of
suicidal ideation and suicide attempts in pediatric patients taking
antidepressants and advised <span style="font-weight: bold;">close
supervision</span> of such patients, the
researchers from the American Journal of Psychiatry study, led by <a href="http://www.fda.gov/" style="font-weight: bold;">Elaine H. Morrato</a>,
DrPH, from the <a href="http://www.colorado.edu/" style="font-weight: bold;">University of
Colorado Health Sciences Center</a>, in Denver, explain.<font style="font-family: mistral;" size="+2">We expected </font><span style="font-family: garamond;">[the
FDA advisory]</span></font><font style="font-family: mistral;" size="+2">
to cause increased monitoring
by physicians of patients and increased contacts, but we did not find
that; it stayed very similar to how it was before the warnings,</font>
corresponding author <a href="http://www.nashp.org/robert-j-valuck/" style="font-weight: bold;">Robert J. Valuck</a>, PhD,
from the University of
Colorado Health Sciences Center, told <a href="http://www.medscape.com/psychiatry" style="font-weight: bold;"><i style="font-style: italic;">Medscape
Psychiatry</i></a> </div>
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<font face="Garamond"> <font face="Garamond"><b><i><a href="http://www.cultureshocktv.com/internews/2002/jun12200406360.shtml">Antidepressant
drug induced Suicides: Evidence of&,'Iceberg effect' Revealed</a></i></b></font>
</font> <br>
<font face="Garamond"><font face="Garamond"><i>A <a href="http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/mental-health-abuse/psychiatric-labels/not-mentally-ill" style="font-weight: bold;">Fast Action for Human
Rights and Choice in Mental Health</a>.</i><i>Hunger
Strikers Encourage
Supporters to Contact <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=zql0AqtRSrYC&dq=American+Psychiatric+Association,+National+Alliance+for+Mentally+Ill&hl=it&source=gbs_navlinks_s" style="font-weight: bold;">American Psychiatric Association,
National
Alliance for Mentally Ill</a>
&
Surgeon General: </i></font><font style="font-family: garamond;" face="Garamond">PASADENA,
CALIF</font>:
On Sat.,
16 August
2003<font face="Garamond"> <br>
</font> </font>
<div align="justify"><font face="Garamond"><font face="Garamond"><i>Five
former
mental patients and
a dissident
social worker from through out the United States will arrive in
Pasadena,
Calif. to begin a <b><font color="#d70023">hunger
strike</font></b> to
press for human rights and choice in <span style="font-weight: bold;">Psychiatry:
<a href="http://psychrights.org/PR/StrikeResPR.htm">Fast
for Freedom in
Mental
Health</a></span>. They charge that the pharmaceutical
industry and
psychiatry are <b><font color="#d70023">medicalizing
an ever-widening spectrum of human emotion and behavior for financial
gain
and self-interest</font></b>, and are <b><font color="#d70023">willing
to deceive the public while they too frequently stigmatize, humiliate,
and harm their clients in the process</font></b>. The
government gives
virtually total support to a quick-fix, pill-pushing model of mental
health
at the expense of alternative, less invasive ways of helping people in
emotional distress,</i>
asserts <a href="http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/act/2003/mf-hunger-strike/fast-for-freedom" style="font-weight: bold;">David Oaks</a>, hunger
striker
and Executive
Director of <a href="http://www.mindfreedom.org/"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">MindFreedom
Support Coalition International</span></a><i>. </i><span style="font-style: italic;">Fourteen
mental health academics and practitioners stand ready to review and
reply
to responses to the strikers' challenge</span></font><br>
</font></div>
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<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><font face="Garamond"><font face="Garamond"><i>...
What
we are dealing
with
here is<b><font color="#d70023"> fashion, politics,
and money</font></b>...
I want no part of a psychiatry of oppression and social control.</i></font></font></div>
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<hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;">
<ol>
<li><font face="Garamond"><font face="Garamond"><b style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/">BMJ</a></b>
2004;329:307 (7 August), doi:10.1136/bmj.329.7461.307 News </font></font></li>
<li><font face="Garamond"><font face="Garamond"> <b><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=search&db=pubmed&term=Lenzer+J%5Bau%5D&dispmax=50">Secret
US report surfaces on antidepressants in children Jeanne
Lenzer</a></b> New York </font></font></li>
<li><font face="Garamond"><font face="Garamond"> <b style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Display&dopt=pubmed_pubmed&from_uid=15271811">Scandals
have eroded US public's confidence in drug industry</a></b>. BMJ. 2004
Jul 31;329(7460):247. No
abstract available.&</font></font></li>
<li><font face="Garamond"><font face="Garamond"> <b><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/">PMID</a></b>:
15284128 [<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/" style="font-style: italic;"><b>PubMed</b></a>
- in process] </font></font></li>
<li><font face="Garamond"><font face="Garamond"> <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Display&dopt=pubmed_pubmed&from_uid=15271811" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">FDA's
counsel accused of being too close to drug industry</a>. </font></font></li>
<li><font face="Garamond"><font face="Garamond">BMJ.
2004
Jul 24;329(7459):189. No
abstract available.
PMID: 15271811 [<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">PubMed</span>
- indexed for <a href="http://www.nlm.nih.gov/" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">MEDLINE</a>]</font></font></li>
<li><font face="Garamond"><font face="Garamond"> <a style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.nida.nih.gov/NIDA_Notes/NNindex.html">Early
Childhood
Behavior and Temperament Predict Later Substance Use</a> <span style="font-weight: normal;">by</span><b> <a href="http://www.starlight.org.uk/team/neil-swan/">Neil
Swan</a></b>, <a href="http://www.nida.nih.gov/NIDA_notes/"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">NIDA NOTES</span>
Contributing Writer</a></font></font></li>
<li><font face="Garamond"><font face="Garamond"> <a href="http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/827747?src=wnl_edit_tpal&uac=114233DZ"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">ADHD Meds May Double
Cardiovascular Event Risk in Kids J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol.
Published online June 23, 2014.</span></a><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> </span><a href="http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/cap.2014.0020"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Full text</span></a><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"></span></font></font></li>
<li><font face="Garamond"><a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/global/"><font style="font-family: garamond; font-style: italic;" face="garamond"><b>The
Times
(London) </b></font></a><font style="font-family: garamond; font-style: italic;" face="garamond">August
4, 2006</font></font><br>
<font face="Garamond"> </font><font face="Garamond"> <font style="font-family: garamond; font-style: italic;" face="garamond">One
critic calls it
'a <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">nefarious
effort to recruit</span> our children into
the <span style="font-weight: bold;">quagmire of
biological psychiatry</span>'...
it seems to us that US high
school kids have never needed much persuasion to enter quagmires of
biological psychiatry through either prescription drugs nicked from
parents' medicine cabinets, or by buying recreational drugs from those
suffering from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_trafficking"><span style="font-weight: bold;">DDD</span>: <span style="font-weight: bold;">Drug Dealer Disorder</span></a></font></font></li>
</ol>
<font face="Garamond"> </font> <font face="Garamond">
<font style="font-family: garamond;" face="garamond">Updated:
January
11, 2007 6:11 PM EST</font><br>
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<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><font face="Garamond"><font style="font-family: garamond; font-style: italic;" face="garamond"><a href="http://www.psychsearch.net/teenscreen.html"><b>TeenScreen</b></a>
is a very controversial so-called <a href="http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/355/26/2717"><span style="font-weight: bold;">diagnostic</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">psychiatric service</span></a>,
aka suicide survey; done on children who are then referred to
psychiatric treatment. The evidence suggests that the objective of the
psychiatrists who designed <span style="font-weight: bold;">TeenScreen</span>
is to place children so selected
on <a href="http://www.psychsearch.net/teenscreen_psychotropic_medication.htm" style="font-weight: bold;">psychotropic
drugs</a></font></font><br>
<font face="Garamond"> <font style="font-family: garamond; font-style: italic;" face="garamond"><b>What
treatment?</b></font><font style="font-family: garamond; font-style: italic;" face="garamond">
Drugs. A survey of
recently trained child psychiatrists found the <a href="http://www.psychsearch.net/teenscreen_antidepressants.htm" style="font-weight: bold;">treatment</a>
for 9 out of 10 children consisted of drugging. (Journal of the <a href="http://www.aacap.org/" style="font-weight: bold;">American
Academy of Child Adolescent Psychiatry</a> 2002)</font></font><br>
<font face="Garamond"> <font style="font-family: garamond; font-style: italic;" face="garamond">The
"treatment"
used on children with these bogus labels can be found here: <a href="http://www.aacap.org/AACAP/Clinical_Practice_Center/Home.aspx?hkey=a7c9e3c5-9dc6-4ce0-8108-c1e92f6b83bf" style="font-weight: bold;">Medication
Guidelines</a></font></font><br>
<font face="Garamond"> <font><a href="http://www.psychsearch.net/teenscreen.html" style="font-weight: bold;"><font style="font-family: garamond; font-style: italic;" face="garamond">"Treatment"
is the
long term goal for <span style="font-weight: bold;">TeenScreen</span>
according to their director, </font></a><font style="font-family: garamond; font-style: italic;" face="garamond"><a href="http://www.dissidentvoice.org/June05/Pringle0607.htm" style="font-weight: bold;">Laurie Flynn</a>.</font><font style="font-family: garamond; font-style: italic;" face="garamond">
What does the Food
and Drug Administration say about these drugs? See here: </font><font style="font-family: garamond; font-style: italic;" face="garamond"><a href="http://www.psychsearch.net/teenscreen.html" style="font-weight: bold;">Black
Box Warning</a></font><font style="font-family: garamond; font-style: italic;" face="garamond"><span style="font-weight: bold;">.
TeenScreen</span> was established in
Tulsa, Oklahoma in </font><font style="font-family: garamond; font-style: italic;" face="garamond"><a href="http://www.psychsearch.net/teenscreen_tulsa1.html" target="_blank" style="font-weight: bold;">1997</a></font><font style="font-family: garamond; font-style: italic;" face="garamond">.
According to a
2003 </font><font style="font-family: garamond; font-style: italic;" face="garamond"><a href="http://www.tulsaworld.com/" style="font-weight: bold;">Tulsa
World</a></font><font style="font-family: garamond; font-style: italic;" face="garamond"> </font><font style="font-family: garamond; font-style: italic;" face="garamond">newspaper
article, </font><font style="font-family: garamond; font-style: italic;" face="garamond"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mike
Brose</span>,
executive director of the Mental Health Association in Tulsa</font><font style="font-family: garamond; font-style: italic;" face="garamond">,
stated:</font> <font style="font-family: garamond; font-style: italic;" face="garamond"> </font> </font></font><br>
<font face="Garamond"><font> </font> </font> <font face="Garamond"><font><font style="font-style: italic; font-family: mistral;" face="garamond"> -
<font face="Mistral" size="+2">To the
best
of my knowledge, this is the highest number of youth
suicides we've ever had during the school year -- a number we find very
frightening. </font></font></font></font><br>
<font face="Garamond"><font><font style="font-style: italic; font-family: mistral;" face="garamond"><font face="Mistral" size="+2"> </font></font></font></font><font face="Garamond"> <font><font style="font-style: italic; font-family: mistral;" face="garamond"> <font style="font-family: garamond; font-style: italic;" face="garamond">Psychiatrists
are
even coming forth saying <span style="font-weight: bold;">TeenScreen</span>
is unworkable. <a href="http://www.psychsearch.net/teenscreen_Nathaniel_Lehrman.html" target="_blank" style="font-weight: bold;">Nathaniel
Lehrman</a>
says:</font></font></font></font><br>
<font face="Garamond"><font><font style="font-style: italic; font-family: mistral;" face="garamond"> </font></font></font><font face="Garamond"><font> </font> </font><br>
<font face="Garamond"><font> </font> </font><span style="font-style: italic;">The claim by the
director of the TeenScreen Program that her
program would significantly reduce suicides is unsupported by the data.
Indeed, such screenings would probably cause more harm than good. It is
impossible, on cursory examination, or on the basis of the Program's
brief written screening test, to detect suicidality or "mental
illness," however we define it.</span><br>
<font face="Garamond"><font> </font></font><font face="Garamond"> </font><br>
<font face="Garamond"> </font><font face="Garamond"><font style="font-family: garamond; font-style: italic;" face="garamond">The
true story is
that the majority of child suicides in Florida had
been on psychotropic drugs or had already received psychiatric
treatment, which is completely consistent with the recent flood of FDA
and international warnings that these drugs can create suicidal
ideation.</font></font><br>
<font face="Garamond"> <font style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);" face="garamond"><font style="font-family: garamond;" face="garamond"><b>4.
Where are all the
schools that
use TeenScreen? </b></font></font></font><br>
<font face="Garamond"> <font style="font-style: italic;" face="garamond"><span style="font-family: garamond;">It's
all a <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">big
secret</span>. According to <span style="font-weight: bold;">TeenScreen</span>'s
director Leslie McGuire,
they are fearful there will be an uprising against mental health
screening, therefore <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">TeenScreen
refuses
to divulge their locations</span>.
They use a canned e-mail message:</span></font></font><br>
<font face="Garamond">
<blockquote><font face="Garamond"><font><font style="font-style: italic; font-family: mistral;" face="Mistral" size="+2">We
get a
lot of requests from people
who are interested in locating and speaking directly with local
TeenScreen sites and this can become a burden on them. We are not
authorized to give out our sites contact information unless we have
requested their permission to do</font></font></font></blockquote>
</font></div>
<font face="Garamond"> </font> <font face="Garamond">
<blockquote><font face="Garamond"><font> </font></font></blockquote>
<font face="Garamond"><font> </font></font>
<div align="justify"><font face="Garamond"><font><font face="Garamond"><font> </font></font></font></font></div>
<font face="Garamond"><font> <span style="font-family: garamond;"> Due
to <span style="font-weight: bold;">TeenScreen</span>'s
secrecy and the fact that parents have the right to know if their
school has <span style="font-weight: bold;">TeenScreen</span>,
a
search is being conducted nationwide for
schools with <span style="font-weight: bold;">TeenScreen</span>.<span style="font-family: garamond;"> A new website exposes the
discovered </span><a href="http://www.mentalhealthweeklynews.com/Article-Detail/teenscreen-shuts-doors-suddenly-after-13-years.aspx" style="font-family: garamond; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">TeenScreen
Locations</a></span></font>.</font></font><br>
<font face="Garamond"><font face="Garamond"> </font></font>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><font face="Garamond"><font face="Garamond"><font style="font-family: garamond; font-style: italic;" face="garamond">In
March 2001, the
National Institutes of
Health issued the following warning: </font></font></font><br>
<font face="Garamond"><font face="Garamond"> <font style="font-family: garamond; font-style: italic;" face="garamond">The
number of Web
sites offering
health-related resources grows every day. Many sites provide valuable
information, while others may have information that is unreliable or
misleading.</font></font></font><br>
<font face="Garamond"><font face="Garamond"><font style="font-family: garamond; font-style: italic;" face="garamond">[To
read then] TEEN VIOLENCE </font><font face="Garamond"><b>A
Bibliography, Medical Dictionary, and Annotated Research Guide to
Internet References</b></a> (Teen Violence)</font></font></font><br>
</div>
<font face="Garamond"><font face="Garamond"><font face="Garamond"> </font></font></font><br>
<font face="Garamond"><font face="Garamond"><font face="Garamond">Any
way at <span style="font-weight: bold;">December 14 2012<br>
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</span></font></font></font>
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<h3 align="justify"><b><span style="font-family: garamond;">Stop
bullying
now!</span></b></h3>
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<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><font face="Garamond"><font><font style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);" face="garamond"><b>1.
Does the
TeenScreen Program
endorse mental health screening for all teens?</b></font></font></font><br>
<font face="Garamond"><font><font face="Garamond"> <font style="font-family: garamond;" face="garamond"><i>The <a href="http://www.psychsearch.net/teen_screen_Ten_Year_Plan.html" style="font-weight: bold;">goal</a> of TeenScreen was
to screen every
child in the United States by the time
they're out of high school. According to TeenScreen's Director, <b><font style="font-family: garamond; font-style: italic;" face="garamond">Laurie
Flynn</font></b>their term goal is <a href="http://www.mentalhealthweeklynews.com/Article-Detail/teenscreen-shuts-doors-suddenly-after-13-years.aspx" style="font-weight: bold;">"treatment"</a>
for "those in need." </i></font></font></font></font><br>
<font face="Garamond"><font><font face="Garamond"><font style="font-family: garamond;" face="garamond"><i> <b>2.
Does
TeenScreen recommend treatment?</b></i></font></font></font></font><br style="font-style: italic;">
<font face="Garamond"><font><i><font face="Garamond">
<span style="font-family: garamond;"><i><b>TeenScreen</b></i>
materials say they make no treatment recommendations. However, let's
pose this question: If you have a child who's been asked a <a href="http://www.psychsearch.net/teenscreen.html" style="font-weight: bold;">battery of
potentially upsetting questions</a>, has been labeled with a
bogus
'mental
disorder', has been assigned a certain "impairment score" and then
referred to a psychiatrist, what do you think the treatment will be?
When <span style="font-weight: bold;">TeenScreen</span>
says they do
not recommend treatment it's like the
gallows builder saying he didn't hang that man!</span></font></i></font></font><br>
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<font face="Garamond"><font><i><font face="Garamond"><span style="font-family: garamond;"></span></font></i></font></font> <font face="Garamond"><font><i><font face="Garamond"><span style="font-family: garamond;"> <br>
</span></font></i></font></font>
<div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Garamond"><font><i><font face="Garamond"><span style="font-family: garamond;"><font face="Garamond"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwNAzDqXdx8"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">What Little
Boys Are
Made Of</span></a></font>
<blockquote><font face="Garamond"><font><i><font face="Garamond">Plenty,
according to U.S.
Department of
Education data: Boys are <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">four
times</span>
more likely to show up in special education programs designed for <a href="http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED303978&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=eric_accno&accno=ED303978" style="font-weight: bold;">emotionally/behaviorally disabled
(EBD</a>)
students than are girls.
Education experts are quick to point out that this doesn't mean boys
are four times as disturbed as girls are, but that boys - especially
African-American boys - may be overidentified for EBD programs, as they
are known, as a result of something as simple and complex as <span style="font-weight: bold;">boys being
boys</span>. b><i><font class="bighed">The
New Gender Gap </font></i><font class="bighed"><font class="deck" style="font-style: italic;" face="Garamond">From
kindergarten to grad
school, boys are
becoming the second sex (</font><font class="text" face="Garamond">by <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/14/style/weddings-michelle-conlin-colin-beavan.html" style="font-weight: bold;">Michelle Conlin</a>). </font><font face="Garamond"><font class="bighed" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Commentary:
Why Can't We Let Boys Be Boys?</font></font><font class="bighed" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;" face="Garamond"> </font><font class="bighed" face="Garamond">(</font><font class="text" face="Garamond">by <a href="http://wadsworth.com/english_d/templates/student_resources/0759398313_sundance/s-z/vickers.html" style="font-weight: bold;">Marcia Vickers</a>).<br>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Garamond"><font><font face="Garamond"><font face="Garamond"><font face="Garamond"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.mentalhealthweeklynews.com/Article-Detail/teenscreen-shuts-doors-suddenly-after-13-years.aspx">TeenScreen
shuts doors suddenly after 13 years</a> <br>
- article by <a href="http://www.alcoholismdrugabuseweekly.com/brief-directory.aspx?LPID=2">Alison
Knopf Insinger</a></span></font></font></font><br>
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<div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: justify;"><font face="Garamond"><font><font face="Garamond"><font face="Garamond"><font face="Garamond"><span style="font-style: italic;">When
Columbia University’s TeenScreen program announced last month that it
was shutting down effective December 14, everyone, including the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration (SAMHSA)</span>, was
surprised. Mark Olfson, M.D., interim executive director of TeenScreen,
referred interview requests to the Columbia University press office,
where spokesman Doug Levy said that no interview requests would be
granted.</span></font></font></font><br style="font-style: italic;">
<font face="Garamond"><font face="Garamond"><font face="Garamond"><span style="font-style: italic;">Overall,
there was shock that the program, which according to the website had
contracts with 550 school districts to conduct mental health screening
on middle and high schoolers and refer them to treatment if necessary,
was suddenly coming to <span style="font-weight: bold;">such an abrupt
end</span>.</span></font></font></font><br style="font-style: italic;">
<font face="Garamond"><font face="Garamond"><font face="Garamond"><span style="font-style: italic;">However,