Here’s just a handful of reasons to OPPOSE the DOZENS of mental health bills in Austin that want to involve our local school campuses, which is code for expanding the market share for the government-supported pharmaceutical companies, by creating a direct avenue for them to perform mental assessments on our children, AT SCHOOL.
Whether it’s through research funding, consulting positions for faculty, or “educational” dollars, drug companies have a major influence on our medical schools.
1992 Congressional Hearing: TX Sen Moncrief – “Hospitals would go into schools and initiate kickbacks to counselors who could find students that had mental health insurance and would then be put into that hospital.” https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951d00282733c;view=1up;seq=9
“…social workers, school counselors, probation officers, crisis hotline workers and even ministers were paid to refer patients to private psychiatric hospitals. These are people we have all been taught to trust, not avoid.” https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951d00282733c;view=1up;seq=9 Continue reading “SB 10 (creating the Texas MENTAL Health Care Consortium) is the wrong solution to “school safety””