Clinton County Leader /Dec.12/RI Rep/NFWL and CCHR
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The Clinton County Leader Newspaper - Plattsburg, Missouri
Clinton County N E W S
W e e k l y O n l i n e E d i t i o n
December 12, 2002
Women Legislators Take Leadership Role in Protecting Children's Rights Against
Forced Psychiatric Drugging
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), an international mental health
watchdog, applauds the National Foundation of Women Legislators (NFWL) for
taking the lead in promoting federal safeguards for children against enforced
psychotropic drugging through schools. On Saturday, November 23, at the NFWL's
annual conference held at Coronado Bay Resort in San Diego, its subcommittee on
Special education passed a resolution citing national concern about how "Parents
are being coerced into accepting psychiatric diagnoses for their child's
behavioral or learning problems, insisting that the child be placed on a
psychiatric drug as a requisite to remaining in school or face charges of
medical, emotional or educational neglect."
The resolution urges the Federal government to pass regulations in relation to
schools receiving federal funds that protects children from being wrongly
diagnosed and stigmatized as mentally disordered and forced onto psychotropic
drugs as a requirement for their education.
Rhode Island State Representative Aisha Abdullah-Odiase, who organized the
symposium from her position as the vice chairman of the NFWL Education Committee
stated, "When considering issues of attention, behavior and academic challenges
among school age children in this country today, I think back to the words of
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who once reminded us that we cannot put our own
comfort and safety above that of our children. Yet that is exactly what we are
doing when we allow the psychiatric and pharmaceutical industry to infiltrate
our schools and coerce parents to just say yes to Class II psychotropic
drugs..to suppress and not address, symptoms of overlooked academic, physical or
societal challenges."
In February this year, NFWL held a legislative symposium in Sacramento, hearing
from medical and political experts from across the country on the
over-medication of children with attention or behavior problems.
Between six and eight million American children have been prescribed
psychotropic drugs, with the sales of stimulants for "Attention Deficit
Hyperactivity Disorder" (ADHD) reaching more than $784 million in 2001. Concern
continues to mount after four children over the past two years-the youngest aged
seven-died from cardiac or toxicity problems relating to prescribed psychotropic
drugs.
Women state legislators have been in the forefront of getting legislation of
resolutions passed that restrict the use of psychotropic drugs on children. In
Connecticut, AB 5701, passed in 2000, prohibits school personnel from
recommending the use of such drugs for any student.
Ms. Jan Eastgate, the international president of CCHR, said, "NFWL and its
women legislative leaders have recognized a serious issue in our nation:
millions of school-age children with educational problems being medicated
instead of educated. One of the most common drugs used to tread ADHD is a
Schedule II controlled substance, in the same category as opium, morphine,
heroin and cocaine. Parents are unwittingly giving their kids 'kiddy-cocaine",
and are not being apprised of all the potential medical and educational causes
for misbehavior or inattention.
The NFWL Education Committee resolution isolates both the problems and several
solutions for this, including ensuring that parents have access to all
information regarding their options to help children with symptoms of so-called
learning or behavioral problems, including tutoring, vision testing, phonics,
nutritional guidance, medical examinations, allergy testing, standard
disciplinary procedures and other remedies known to be effective and harmless.
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights was established by the Church of
Scientology to investigate and expose psychiatric violations of human rights.
For more information log onto http://www.fightforkids.com or call CCHR at
1-800-869-2247.
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News from the
General Assembly
The Legislative Press and Public Information Bureau
http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/leg_press/2000/february/Odiase%20Psychotropic.htm
http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/leg_press/2002/may/odiase%20drugs.htm
http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/leg_press/2001/august/odiase%20specialed.htm
STATE HOUSE -- As chairwoman of the National Foundation of Women Legislation's
(NFWL) National Subcommittee on Special Education, Rep. 'Aisha Abdullah-Odiase
is leading an investigation into the use of psychiatric drugs in schoolchildren.
"We need to halt the needless labeling and drugging of millions of American
school children," said Representative Abdullah-Odiase, who represents District
19 in Providence
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http://www.womenlegislators.org/newsletter/julaug2001.pdf
page 1 and 13 of the NWFL newslwtter
U.S. Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton (center) meetsWLND attendees Del.
Adrienne Mandel (MD) (far left),Tribal leaders Paulette Crone-Morange (left) and
KatherineSaunders (right), and Rep. Aisha Abdullah-Odiase (RI) (farright) during
a Cabinet Briefing at the White House
Education, Training and Workplace Policy Committee
Sen. Rosemary McAuliffe, WA, Chairwoman o Early Childhood Education Sub-Cmte. -
Rep. Barb Sykora, MN, Chairo K-12 Finance, Capital and Organization
Sub-CommitteeoK-12 Policy, Accountability and Reform Sub-Committee-Rep. Jane
Cunningham, MO,
ChairwomanoK-12 Special Education Sub-Cmte.- Rep. Aisha Abdullah-Odiase, RI,
ChairoK-12 Teacher Preparation and Professional Development Sub-CommitteeoK-12
Vocational Ed & School-to-Work Sub-Cmte. - Rep. Rae Ann Kelsch, NDoHigher
Education Sub-Committee- Rep. Irma Rangel, TX, ChairwomanoLabor and Workplace
Policy Sub-Committee- Rep. Terry Yoshinaga, HI, ChairoTraining and Workforce
Development Sub-CommitteeoJoint Sub-Committee on School Technology,Telemedicine
& e-Government
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http://www.projo.com/trial/content/projo-20020626-cianci.1ff7c57b.html
Cianci will not seek re-election as mayor
19 candidates file to take his place
06/25/2002
After 4 p.m., it was official. Paolino had filed for the office -- along with an
astonishing 18 other candidates. Of those, some had previously declared their
intent to run, including state Rep. David Cicilline and Keven A. McKenna, both
Democrats, Republican David B. Talan, independents Christopher Young and Pat V.
Cortellessa and Green Party candidate Greg Gerrit.
New to the list was City Council President John A. Lombardi, as well as three
state representatives from Providence: Steven Costantino, Aisha W.
Abdullah-Odiase and David V. Igliozzi. Also filing was Bishop Robert E. Farrow
of the Church of God in Christ United.
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