Celebrities, civic and state leaders, parents and children take to the streets of Atlanta today in a march to protest the American Psychiatric Association's (APA) plans to screen all 52 Million US school children for "mental disorders," an initiative they say will swell the already epidemic numbers of children being prescribed mind-altering drugs, despite the lack of medical or scientific evidence establishing the validity of psychiatry's "disorders."
The protestors say there are already over 8 million U.S. children taking cocaine-like stimulants, and antidepressants that cause suicide and hostility. The APA's plans for universal mental screenings of children could more than quadruple this number to 40 million in the next decade.
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