Press
Release
September
29, 2003
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Patricia Weathers (845) 677-8419
Sheila Matthews (203) 966-8419
Today
marks the 33rd Year Anniversary of Federal Hearings held on Behavior
Modification Drugs on School Age Children – The Right to Privacy Inquiry.
91st Congress, Second Session
Thirty-three
years later, parents continue to be pressured by school officials to place their
children on mind altering behavioral drugs. Today, parents have come together
across the Nation to ask the Senate to move “The Child Medication Safety Act of 2003” into law.
This problem of labeling and drugging school age children has not been
solved. It is time we look at the
long history of this dangerous problem and close the loopholes that allow it to
continue to grow.
Let’s
remember that during the 1970 hearings, The U.S. Department of Health,
Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Food and Drug Administration of
Washington, DC issued for immediate release the following: “Dr. Charles C.
Edwards, Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, said today he has
moved to limit sharply the use of
amphetamine drugs, now, being widely sold as stimulants and appetite
suppressants in this Country, and he appealed to manufacturers to reduce the
production and sale of these drugs.”
This
reduction demand has not happened. The
fact is that the production and sales have increased. These
important hearings into the use of behavioral modification drugs should be
remembered today. Our Country must
be allowed educational access to the history of the problem. This problem still clearly exists. A positive step would be to move “The Child Medication Safety Act of 2003” into law.
It is unbelievable to see an article from the Washington Post, September 30, 1970, FDA Warns against Uses of “Behavior” Amphetamines, By Robert C. Maynard; and to think it is 2003 and parents are still fighting for justice