[IP] more on Mental Health Screening for All Americans Proposed?
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From: EdLevinson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: August 10, 2004 3:04:07 PM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IP] more on Mental Health Screening for All Americans
Proposed?
Goal 4 says ...
Quality screening and early intervention will occur in both readily
accessible, low-stigma settings, such as primary health care
facilities and
schools, and in settings in which a high level of risk exists for
mental
health problems, such as criminal justice, juvenile justice, and child
welfare systems. Both children and adults will be screened for mental
illnesses during their routine physical exams.
Seems innocuous enough even when you read the details for this goal
http://www.mentalhealthcommission.gov/reports/FinalReport/FullReport
-05.htm.
But mental health has very flexible definitions and screening
everybody who comes in contact with a health provider or the justice
system provides lots of data for the government to peruse.
So if, in the environment the report envisions, I'm crazy enough to
criticize the government I could be treated for a mental health
problem. Sounds familiar, as in Soviet era mental institutions.
Ed
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