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Death by Psychiatric Drugging at Connecticut’s Correctional Facility 

October 7, 2024 Given the recent news of a death due to psychiatric drugging in a State of Connecticut correctional facility, one must consider whether the mental health “treatment” provided by the State is working? According to news reports, 32-year-old inmate Tyler Cole died in the Garner, Ct., Correctional Institution from accidental “acute intoxication.”  Whether the “accidental” “acute intoxication” was the fault of the inmate, or the prescribing physician was not made public. Cole was provided psychiatric “treatment” in the form of a mind-altering drug cocktail, including methadone; clonazepam (also known as Klonopin), a benzodiazepine prescribed as an anti-anxiety medication; diphenhydramine (antihistamine) and Olanzapine, an antipsychotic medication. Cole had been sentenced to Garner for less than two months due to a domestic violence incident.  News reports do not advise the public information about whether Cole had been diagnosed with mental illness prior to entering Connecticut’s correctional facility or whether he picked up the mental illness(es) inside the facility. The news reports also do not provide the prescription drug dosing levels that caused the “acute intoxication.”

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

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.

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Thomas Crooks’ Parents: Behavioral Health Experts in the Spotlight

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.”

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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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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.