I am a Marin parent who is very concerned about an article that appeared in the IJ. It is likely that you do not know the truth about teen screen.http://www.marinij.com/ci_8836652?source=rssTeen ScreenA scheme concocted by the pharmaceutical industry to screen the entire nation's public school population for mental illness and treat them with controversial drugs $$. http://www.teenscreentruth.com/Teenscreen_Advisory_Board.htm The connections to the drug industry.http://www.teenscreentruth.com/index.htmlA high False positive rate.http://theeffexoractivist.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=22http://ahrp.blogspot.comhttp://theeffexoractivist.orghttp://www.network54.com/Forum/281849/The drug industry's long history of dirty tricks.http://www.counterpunch.org/cox01272008.htmlIt took a freedom of information act to expose the truth. The drug makers have been hiding the negative studies.http://www.ssristories.com/index.php The connection between school shootings and SSRIs. Suicide, Violence http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdkFasjSJ_g&feature=relatedFDA Testimonials - Suicide, Violence http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pmed.0050045 Meta-analyses of antidepressant medications - when unpublished trial data are included, the benefit falls below accepted criteria for clinical significance.In children and adolescents (aged 6-18 years), antidepressant drug treatment was significantly associated with suicide attempts.http://archpsyc.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/63/8/865Between 2004 and 2005, the total number of suicides declined from 32,439 (2004) to 31,769 (2005). More specifically, the number of suicides declined for persons ages 25 to 44 (11,712 to 11,262), ages 15 to 24 (4,316 to 4,139), and ages 5 to 14 (285 to 270). These declines occurred with decreasing overall SSRI prescriptions among these age groups. After blackbox warnings went into effect.http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3609599239524875493&q=The+Drugging+Of+Our+Children&hl=enThe Physicians' Desk Reference lists the following adverse reactions (side effects) to antidepressants among a host of other physical and neuropsychiatric effects: manic reaction (mania, e.g. kleptomania, pyromania, dipsomania), emotional lability (or instability), abnormal thinking, alcohol abuse, hallucinations, hostility, lack of emotion, paranoid reaction, amnesia, confusion, agitation, delirum, delusions, hysteria, psychosis, sleep disorders, abnormal dreams, and discontinuation (withdrawal) syndrome. Adverse reactions are especially likely when starting or discontinuing the drug, increasing or lowering the dose or when switching from one SSRI to another SSRI. Adverse reactions are often diagnosed as bipolar disorder when the symptoms could be entirely iatrogenic (treatment induced).http://youtube.com/watch?v=gUchjOKxKY8 http://www.foxnews.com/video2/player06.html?122207/122107_ha_kennedy4&Hannitys_America&Teens%20%26%20Anti-depressants&acc&Politics&-1&News&369&&&new networkhttp://theeffexoractivist.orgThousand of articleshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6AFRhVe8aE&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT7DITkcHDw&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhDQHdSwyEY&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6COz6UYb6Q&feature=relatedhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3609599239524875493&q=The+Drugging+Of+Our+Children&hl=en http://www.ostrowandcompany.com/film_detail.php?film=The%20Drugging%20Of%20Our%20Children Few people (And this includes doctors) realize the lengths the industry is willing to go to, in order to sell drugs. http://www.sideeffectsthemovie.com/mtinterview.phpSee a clip from the educational documentary, "Money Talks" The media is largely controlled by their advertisers. The pharmaceutical industry buys more advertising then any other industry. (The media tends to resist biting the hand that feeds). Every day Americans are subjected to a barrage of advertising by the pharmaceutical industry.In 1999 a study conducted by Adrian Preda, M.D.; Rebecca W. MacLean, M.D.; Carolyn M. Mazure, Ph.D.; and Malcolm B. Bowers, Jr., M.D. found that 8.1% of Psychiatric Admissions to hospitals were due to Antidepressant-Associated Mania and Psychosis (J Clin Psychiatry 2001;62:30-33). The number must be higher now because the numbers of people taking antidepressants has risen significantly.I can give you much more if you need it.Thank you for getting educated on this issue. I realize it is a lot to digest. But you could save a life by taking the time to get educated. And no I am not a scientologists. My child became psychotic and violent wile coming off effexor. My friends daughter called her from the Marin Headlands on a cell phone wile coming off effexor. The girl put a gun in her mouth and pulled the trigger. My friend and I became educated, to late. We started http://theeffexoractivist.org.Sincerly Leslee