Author: Sheila Matthews

AbleChild Applauds Mental Health Crisis Discussion During VP Debate. A National Conversation is Imperative. No One is Getting Better!

Written by Sheila Matthews on October 2, 2024. Posted in Articles.

October 2, 2024

As a 501c3, AbleChild is a non-partisan organization devoted to informed consent. However, an issue was raised in last night’s debate between JD Vance and Tim Walz that AbleChild applauds being brought to the forefront.

Vice Presidential candidate JD Vance talked about America’s “mental health crisis” and the need for getting to the “root causes.” Hallelujah! Yes. It is time to get to the bottom of what is causing America’s mental health crisis and the fact that this issue was raised during a Vice-Presidential debate underscores just how important an in-depth review of mental health “treatment” has become.

Thomas Crooks’ Parents: Behavioral Health Experts in the Spotlight

Written by Sheila Matthews on October 1, 2024. Posted in Articles.

October 3, 2024

As a follow-up to AbleChild’s report on the less-than-stellar hearing by the Bipartisan Task Force on the Attempted Assassination of Donald J. Trump, it seems important to discuss issues surrounding what role the alleged shooter’s parents might have played in the shooting.

First, almost immediately after the shooting incident there were several news reports about a phone call that was made by the alleged shooter’s father, Matthew Crooks, to police prior to the shooting incident.

According to the BBC “The father of the gunman who tried to assassinate Donald Trump called police before the Saturday shooting because he was concerned about his son.” And the BBC further reports that “Matthew Crooks’ father called police because he was worried about his son and his whereabouts…”

Another news report provides more detail about this phone call. According to the Daily Mail.com, “The parents of Trump’s would-be assassin, Thomas Matthew Crooks, called the cops to say he was missing before the shooting.” The Daily Mail further explains that “his father told law enforcement he assumed his son had gone to the shooting range at The Clairton Sportsmen’s Club to practice with his rifle and would be back by 1pm on Saturday.”

Bipartisan Task Force Sidesteps Crucial Evidence: Shooter’s Identity and Motive Ignored

Written by Sheila Matthews on September 29, 2024. Posted in Articles.

September 30, 2024

The House Bipartisan Task Force on the Attempted Assassination of Donald J. Trump held its first hearing last week. Grossly incompetent are the words that come to mind.

Unfortunately, the House members of the Task Force don’t understand what information is important in a criminal investigation and, therefore, are unable to ask important, pertinent questions that may provide the American people with accurate information about the attempted assassination.

While no one doubts the Task Force’s desire to get to the bottom of the assassination attempt, what the American people must understand is that the goal of the Task Force is to “identify solutions that will prevent security failures from recurring in the future,” NOT to get to the bottom of who committed the crime and why. Knowing the role of the Task force helps the American people to understand why the members seemed so inept during the “preliminary” hearing.

Death by Drug Cocktail Demands Criminal Charges for Prescribers

Written by Sheila Matthews on September 27, 2024. Posted in Articles.

September 27, 2024

28-year-old Natalie A. Bartock of Butler Pennsylvania died from toxicity from a cocktail of prescribed psychiatric drugs. Bartock’s doctor who prescribed the deadly cocktail of drugs and the pharmacy that filled the prescriptions have settled a civil suit with the decedent’s estate. Having those responsible pay through the nose is great, but the real question is why wasn’t the doctor and pharmacist criminally charged for Bartock’s death?

But before unveiling the death-inducing cocktail of prescribed psychiatric drugs that was provided to Bartock over a two-year period, it seems appropriate to reflect on the criminal charges that women receive when murderous crimes are committed while taking these deadly cocktails, while those prescribing walk free.

1970 Hearing Reveals ADHD as Government-Funded Drug Experiment on Children

Written by Sheila Matthews on September 25, 2024. Posted in Articles.

September 25, 2024

54 Years Ago, September 29, 1970, US House Heaerings

In 1970 a lawmaker wanted to know if the federal government had a hand in drugging school-age children that largely has today remained an unspoken, well-funded, uncontrolled clinical drug trial.

September 29, 1970, New Jersey Congressman Cornelis E. Gallagher held a hearing into the federal government’s role in promoting the use of amphetamines and Ritalin as behavior modification of grammar school children. Fifty-four years later, AbleChild applauds Representative Gallagher for presiding over the House Special Studies Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations investigation as it was one of the first hearings to draw attention to the government’s funding of experimental drug research using school-age children.

Adderall ADHD Drug Causes Psychosis and Mania

Written by Sheila Matthews on September 18, 2024. Posted in Articles.

September 19, 2024

Over the last six months AbleChild has made a point of highlighting the failure of psychiatric diagnosing by repeating the mantra that is supported by available data showing that, despite boat loads of money being funneled into mental health, nobody is getting better.

But it gets worse. Not only are patients not getting better, but because of the “treatment” being prescribed, many are falling victim to excessive diagnosis and serious mental breakdown risks. A recent study conducted by Lauren Moran, a researcher at Mass General Brigham, reveals just how destructive the drugs prescribed to “treat” ADHD can be.

Connecticut’s Mental Health Providers Beg for Increase in Medicaid, Despite Millions Spent & No One is Getting Better

Written by Sheila Matthews on September 15, 2024. Posted in Articles.

September 16, 2024

Summary Psychiatric Drug Use in Medicaid Population in Connecticut

Health care spending in the U.S. makes up 16.6% of the nation’s GDP, more than any other country in the world and mental health accounts for a reported 5% of that spending. Make no mistake, mental illness in America is an extremely costly or profitable health care problem depending on who is paying, and who is getting paid, for treatment services. What is also clear is that the numbers of Americans being diagnosed as mentally ill continually increases. At some point the question becomes with the hundreds-of-billions of dollars being dumped on mental health “treatment,” why isn’t anyone getting better?

In fact, as of April, the U.S. reports that one in five adults and up to 20% of children experience a mental illness with a price tag of an estimated $282 billion annually. The mental health “providers,” those non-profit organizations that states contract with to provide the needed mental health “treatment” services, complain that reimbursement for services is wholly inadequate. Maybe, but how do these behavioral health providers work?

Queasy Congressional Task Force Sits on Physical Evidence

Written by Sheila Matthews on September 11, 2024. Posted in Articles.

September 11, 2024

Photo Credit (Kenny Holston / The New York Times)*

It’s been two months since numerous investigations were begun into the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. It’s no surprise that all these bloated but well-funded investigative entities have produced no new information since what was made public the day of the shooting. Nothing. NADA, Zip. A big hole in a donut!

And, worse, the Congressional Investigative body, the Task Force on the Attempted Assassination of Donald J. Trump, which promises to provide its findings no later than December 13 of this year, reports that it has received important physical information, but it’s anyone’s guess when or if it will be released to the public. How is this possible?

Journalist, Investigative Reporter & Author, Sharyl Attkisson, Visits Vero Beach

Written by Sheila Matthews on September 9, 2024. Posted in Articles.

September 9, 2024 Vero Beach Book Center

Sharyl Attkisson, Journalist & Host of nonpartisan Sunday-morning TV Show Full Measure & Author with Sheila Matthews, Cofounder of AbleChild.org

Sharyl Attkisson has been a working journalist for more than forty years and is the host and managing editor of the nonpartisan Sunday-morning television program Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson. She has covered controversies under the administrations of Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden, emerging, as the Washington Post put it, with a reputation as a “persistent voice of news-media skepticism about the government’s story.” She is the recipient of five Emmy Awards and an Edward R. Murrow Award for investigative reporting. She has worked for CBS News, PBS, and CNN, and is a fifth-degree black belt master in tae kwon do.

Also By Sharyl Attkisson:
Slanted: How the News Media Taught Us to Love Censorship and Hate Journalism
The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote
Stonewalled: My Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation, and Harassment in Obama’s Washington

Her New Book Follow the Science, How Big Pharma Misleads, Obscures, and Prevails

School Shootings on Trial Again

Written by Sheila Matthews on September 8, 2024. Posted in Articles.

September 9, 2024

In a hushed Georgia courtroom, father and son faced justice for a devastating murderous act that shook a community to its core. Fourteen-year-old Colt Gray sat before the judge, accused of snuffing out four lives at Apalachee High School. Grieving families watched silently as the teen faced four counts of first-degree murder, with the possibility of life in prison.

Colin Gray, 54, followed his son into the courtroom and charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor, four counts of involuntary manslaughter, and child cruelty. If convicted, Colin could face up to 180 years behind bars. As cameras captured the proceedings, father and son were assigned public defenders. After a brief recess, the teenage shooter was summoned back to the courtroom. The judge, realizing the need for clarification, formally advised the teenager that state law prohibited the death penalty for juveniles,