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  • Tennessee Sets National Precedent with Passage of AbleChild Bill Requiring Psychotropic Drug Testing in Mass Shooter Cases

    Landmark Law in TN for Psychotropic Drug Testing for Mass Shooters
                 

    April 30, 2025

    Nashville, TN - April 30, 2025 - In a decisive move to advance public safety and accountability, Tennessee has enacted HB 1349/SB 1146, a landmark law mandating toxicology testing for psychotropic drugs in deceased mass shooters. This legislation, championed by AbleChild -a national nonprofit advocating for informed consent in mental health and co-drafted with Amy Miller, former director of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Reform Pharma initiative, positions Tennessee at the forefront of a national reckoning at the intersection of mental health, pharmaceutical practices and mass violence. Key Highlights:

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  • Law Enforcement Fails to Consider Psychiatric Drugging Behind FSU Shooting

    Law Enforcement Fails to Consider Psychiatric Drugging Behind FSU Shooting

    April 29, 2028 Another school shooting another bogus psychiatric diagnosis. Luckily, it didn’t take years to find out that the Florida State University (FSU) shooter had been diagnosed with a mental disorder and “medicated.”  But now that that information is out there, one cannot help but wonder when the shooter’s descent into deadly violence began. Given the history of these school shooters, it isn’t going out on a limb to suggest that he’d been diagnosed and drugged for some time. Twenty-year old Phoenix Ikner, the stepson of a Deputy, killed two and wounded six others at the FSU Tallahassee campus. News accounts of the shooter explain that he had been suffering from “emotional dysregulation” and had “come off his prescription medication.” What medication? Once again, the reporters covering these shootings fail to ask the follow up question…what medication was the shooter prescribed that he was not taking?  How hard can this be? There are numerous examples of mass shooters who were “treated” for some alleged mental disorder and the psychiatric drugging information is, at some point, made available by family or legal representation. Why not ask the question? How can someone reporting that the shooter stopped taking the prescribed medication and not be curious about the reported “treatment?”  It is completely unfathomable or simply incompetent.

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  • US Government Funding Mass Shootings—China Cashes In

    April 24 2025 In a revelation that should shock every American, Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) —a global consulting giant with deep operational roots in China—has emerged as a central force in the rollout of the 2022 Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (BSCA).  Alvarez & Marsal’s direct presence in China is no secret. With offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Shenzhen, and a client roster dominated by Chinese corporations and state-linked enterprises, A&M's business interests are deeply intertwined with the world's largest authoritarian regime. Its own reports reveal that more than half of its North Asia portfolio now comes from Chinese firms, and its rapid expansion in the region includes major investments in digital operations, supply chain management, and cross-border trade. This sweeping, multi-billion-dollar mental health bill, passed with little public debate and buried in hundreds of pages of legislative text, has quietly transformed the nation's mental health landscape and gun ownership policies—without the informed consent of U.S. citizens. The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act was passed in June 2022 in response to a series of high-profile mass shootings, such as those in Uvalde, Texas, and Buffalo, New York, but it is important to note that the legislation was not directly shaped by public testimony; instead, it was negotiated rapidly among lawmakers without formal opportunities for the public to provide input or testify before Congress, highlighting that the process was driven by political negotiation rather than broad public participation or support.

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  • Federal Regulatory Intervention is Needed to End the Fraudulent Mental Health Crisis.

    Federal Regulatory Intervention is Needed to End the Fraudulent Mental Health Crisis.

    April 21, 2025 Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is in the news in a big way. With the new Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary, Robert Kennedy, Jr., placing great weight on science to support federal government health mandates and regulations, ADHD should be the poster child of zero science and first in need of review.  Of interest is that in the last two weeks, both the New York Times Magazine and the DailyMail.com ran lengthy articles addressing Secretary Kennedy’s efforts to review the risks associated with psychiatric medications like antidepressants, antipsychotics, benzodiazepines and methylphenidate. In both of those articles, the Scientologists were essentially receiving kudos for being the first to question the drugging of America’s children for the alleged ADHD. 

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  • Cleveland Clinic Florida Market’s Chief Medical Operations Officer Publicly Commits to MEDWATCH Awareness—A Rare Step Among U.S. Hospitals

    Cleveland Clinic Florida Market’s Chief Medical Operations Officer Publicly Commits to MEDWATCH Awareness—A Rare Step Among U.S. Hospitals

    April 19, 2025 Richard Rothman, MD, Vice President and Chief Medical Officer at Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital and Chief Medical Operations Officer for the Cleveland Clinic Florida Market, made a public commitment during a well-attended community forum in Indian River County, Vero Beach, Florida, to implement MEDWATCH posters throughout the hospital. This move represents a monumental leap for human rights a significant breakthrough in the fight for informed consent and drug safety, witnessed by local residents. The forum provided a platform for AbleChild, a nonprofit dedicated to informed consent in mental health, to directly address Dr. Rothman. AbleChild highlighted the hospital’s lack of public drug safety awareness, despite the routine use of pharmaceuticals and medical devices, and called for a clear access point for patients to report adverse events directly to the FDA through MEDWATCH.

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    The Beginning

    Founded in 2001 by parents who had their own personal experiences with label and drug coercion by the education system, Ablechild has a personal commitment to inform, support, and unite others faced with all aspects involving labeling and drugging children. Ablechild has a full understanding of what a parent/caregiver goes through when dealing with school systems recommending, and many times pressuring a parent for mental health evaluations. We recognize that schools will many times force-feed mental health approaches on parents, while steering clear of science-based education resources and solutions.

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    AbleChild is nothing without our supporters. Our organization is non-profit and we rely on support from our community to keep our services alive. Join us our on our journey to inform the world by donating financially, sharing our information, or following us on social media. Thanks to everyone who makes this possible!

    Informed Consent

    Knowing that informed consent is a must and a critical component in making an educated decision, Ablechild and many of its individual members have worked diligently since 2001 to provide the public with extensive information at Federal, State, and Local Governmental hearings, at educational conferences, events, Governmental meetings, and throughout national and local media circuits. We have directly advocated and worked on creating laws that would strengthen “Informed Consent” and guarantee a person’s “Right to Refuse” psychological testing and services via the education system.

    Many members of this organization have advocated directly for state and federal legislation outlawing school personnel from recommending psychotropic drugs for children within schools across the nation. We can proudly say that our organization and the united efforts of its members were instrumental in the lobbying and passing of the Federal law entitled “Prohibition on Mandatory Medication Act”. This law is now part of the 2004 Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act (IDEA) and stands as the first of its kind, outlawing forced child drugging on a federal level.