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Proposal: law to ban overuse of amphetamine-based compounds
in schools
Stephen Fox
January 28, 2006
AN ACT
RELATING TO DRUGS PRESCRIBED BY AND DISPENSED IN NEW MEXICO
PUBLIC SCHOOLS;
RELATING TO THE OVERUSE OF AMPHETAMINE BASED COMPOUNDS LIKE
RITALIN FOR THE
SO-CALLED "ATTENTION DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY
DISORDER"; CREATING A SYSTEM OF
CONSENT FOR THE PRESCRIPTION OF DRUGS AND THE DISPENSATION
THEREOF IN NEW
MEXICO PUBLIC SCHOOLS; MAKING AN APPROPRIATION
BE IT ENACTED BY THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
Section 1 [New Material] LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS:
A. The Legislature finds it is imperative for protecting the
health of
children to address its serious concerns about the practice
of prescribing
prescription drugs and administering prescription drugs on
school grounds in
New Mexico, which has occurred for many years with no
specific statutory
powers ever having been granted to do so, a practice that
has gone on within
the vague auspices of Section 504 of the Vocational
Rehabilitation Act of
1973, and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
(IDEA).
B. The Legislature determines that while the federal
government continues to
interpret how IDEA and Section 504 relate to and protect
students diagnosed
with ADHD, the state of New Mexico is free to enact its own
laws and
policies.
C. The Legislature determines that this is a serious
situation for the State
of New Mexico, because of obvious liabilities for potential
harm and actual
harm to any child when determined in a court of law.
D. The Legislature determines that heretofore the
Legislature has never
created any statutory system to regulate or administrate the
prescription
and dispensation of any drugs to children in the public
schools.
E. The Legislature determines that in order to protect the
interests of each
child, which are of great concern in the year 2006, having
been proclaimed
as the "Year of the Child," that such a statutory
system will be created by
this act.
F. The Legislature determines that approximately 1% of the
children in New
Mexico schools are being administered amphetamine-based
drugs like Ritalin
by and through the schools, particularly in the treatment of
the so-called
"Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder"; that
such practices are
determined to have neurotoxic effects on the child's
developing neurological
system, and are also determined to contribute to the child
having
personality difficulties, learning difficulties, and
subsequent addictions
to met amphetamine drugs as teenagers and young adults; and
that some drugs
administered for the so-called "Attention Deficit
Hyperactivity Disorder"
are used as a punishment for a child's lack of attention to
their teacher.
G. The Legislature notes with concern the death of 13
children in the United
States resulting from emergency liver transplants due to
neurotoxic effects
of their having ingested Pemoline, yet another
amphetamine-based drug
prescribed for the so-called "Attention Deficit
Disorder," and that such
deaths and other harmful effects of drugs for this so-called
disorder must
be avoided entirely in the state of New Mexico in accordance
with the
provisions of this act.
H. The legislature determines that the Public Education
Department must come
to recognize that the practice of drugging children for
their occasional
lack of attention is destructive to the child's health and
future, and that
the Public Education Department must make more vigorous
efforts to determine
the underlying reasons for the child's occasional lack of
attention.
Be it therefore enacted by the Legislature of the State of
New Mexico that
the following new statutory material will be added to the
New Mexico Drug
Act in the section regarding Prohibited Act, NMSA 26-1-3
New material:
J. The dispensation of prescription drugs in or by New
Mexico schools and
the arranging of prescriptions by school personnel,
including teachers,
principals, and school nurses, except when there is a
statement of agreement
between the child, the parent, the teacher, and the
principal, and a
pediatrician. This agreement shall be signed by all of the
parties listed
above.
K. No school personnel shall attempt to arrange a
prescription for any child
for any reasons.
L. No amphetamine-based drugs of any trade names will be
administered by any
school personnel in New Mexico for the so-called Attention
Deficit
Hyperactivity Disorder, except when preceded by a statement
of agreement
between the child, the parent, the teacher, the principal,
and a
pediatrician.
Section 2. The New Mexico Drug Act, NMSA 1978 Article 1, is
amended to read:
26-1-3 DEFINITIONS.--for the purpose of the New Mexico Drug
Act:
A. "Ritalin" is a trade name for methylphenidate,
a drug, C14H19NO2,
chemically related to amphetamine, that acts as a mild
stimulant of the
central nervous system and is used especially in the form of
its
hydrochloride for the treatment of narcolepsy in adults and
hyperkinetic
disorders in children.
B. "attention deficit disorder" is a syndrome,
usually diagnosed in
childhood, characterized by a persistent pattern of
impulsiveness, a short
attention span, and often hyperactivity, and ostensibly
interfering with
academic, occupational, and social performance.
Section 4. Power to Enjoin Violations shall be given to the
office of the
attorney general, which is authorized to apply to the
district court for,
and the court shall have jurisdiction upon hearing and for
cause shown, to
grant a temporary or permanent injunction restraining any
other person from
violating any provision of this act.
Section 5. EFFECTIVE DATE.--The effective date of the above
provisions of
this act is immediate.
Section 6. MAKING AN APPROPRIATION.-One hundred thousand
dollars ($100,000)
is appropriated from the general fund to the office of the
attorney general
for enforcement of this act, in accordance with the
statutory authority and
powers granted to the Attorney General in NMSA 26-1-7. Any
unexpended or
unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year
2007 shall revert
to the general fund.
Section 7. EFFECTIVE DATE OF APPROPRIATION.--The effective
date of the
appropriation section of this act shall be July 1, 2006.
Comments
By STEPHEN FOX (Submitted: 01/29/2006 5:34 am)
An outstanding commentary by Fred Baughman, M.D., Pediatric
Neurology
Articles, essays, and other information pertaining to the
fraud of Attention
Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)--Compiled by Dr. Fred
Baughman
Fred A. Baughman Jr., MD has been an adult & child
neurologist, in private
practice, for 35 years. Making "disease" (real
diseases--epilepsy, brain
tumor, multiple sclerosis, etc.) or "no disease"
(emotional, psychological,
psychiatric) diagnoses daily, he has discovered and
described real, bona
fide diseases.
It is this particular medical and scientific background that
has led him to
view the "epidemic" of one particular
"disease"--Attention Deficit
Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)--with increasing alarm. Dr.
Baughman describes
this himself. Referring to psychiatry, he says:
"They made a list of the most common symptoms of
emotional discomfiture of
children; those which bother teachers and parents most, and
in a stroke that
could not be more devoid of science or Hippocratic
motive--termed them a
'disease.' Twenty five years of research, not deserving of
the term
'research.,' has failed to validate ADD/ADHD as a disease.
Tragically--the
"epidemic" having grown from 500 thousand in 1985
to between 5 and 7 million
today--this remains the state of the 'science' of
ADHD."
In addition to scientific articles that have appeared in
leading national
and international medical journals, Dr. Baughman has
testified for
victimized parents and children in ADHD/Ritalin legal cases,
writes for the
print media and appears on talk radio shows, always making
the point that
ADHD is fraudulent--a creation of the
psychiatric-pharmaceutical cartel,
without which they would have nothing to prescribe their
dangerous,
addictive, Schedule II, stimulants for--namely, Ritalin
(methylphenindate),
Dexedrine (dextro-amphetamine), Adderall (mixed dextro- and
levo-amphetamine) and, Gradumet, and Desoxyn (both of which
are
methamphetamine, 'speed,' 'ice').
The entire country, including all 5-7 million with the ADHD
diagnosis today,
have been deceived and victimized; deprived of their
informed consent rights
and drugged--for profit! It must be stopped. Now!
Stephen Fox
By Betty Martini (Submitted: 01/28/2006 4:51 pm)
This is the year of the child in New Mexico. Birth defects,
ADD, ADHD,
autism, mental retardation and behavioral and psychiatric
problems are
epidemic because of aspartame. Aspartame interacts with all
drugs and
vaccines so children don't have a chance.
Here are some of the reports:
http://ww
w.wnho.net/aspartame_interacts.htm Has additive and
synergistic
effect with MSG. http://www.truthinlabe
ling.org
Articles on the subject:
Aspartame Murders Infants: htt
p://www.wnho.net/aspartame_murders_infants.htm
Dr. Louis Elsas testimony before Congress:
http://w
ww.wnho.net/nutrasweet_testimony.htm
Dr. H. J. Roberts on Aspartame and Pregnancy:
http://www.d
orway.com/betty/pregnanc.txt
What should be given to schools: http://ww
w.wnho.net/alabama_boe_meeting.htm
And many more on http://www.wnho.net and http://www.dorway.com Movie
to show
in schools: Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World, http://www.cinemalibre.com
This act is badly needed the world over.
Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum, Founder
Mission Possible International
9270 River Club Parkway
Duluth, Georgia 30097
770 242-2599
Bettym19 mindspring.com
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