Author: Sheila Matthews

Bureaucratic Investigations Fail to Connect Crooks to Assassination Attempt

Written by Sheila Matthews on October 21, 2024. Posted in Articles.

October 21, 2024

Thomas Matthew Crooks? Photo credit Facebook: Bethel Park Skilled Nursing & Rehabilitation Center (Public)

In the last week, two investigative reports have been released about the July 13th assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania. Between these two reports it’s fair to say that the public is none the wiser because of the shoddy investigative work performed. One report merely explains what the public already knew and the second is insulting from the standpoint of what the investigators failed to investigate.

The first report, The Independent Review Panel, interestingly provided not one name of any law enforcement, FBI or Secret Service personnel involved in security on July 13th but did provide the name of the alleged shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks. How the Panel concluded that Thomas Matthew Crooks was the shooter is not part of the report. In fact, the Panel focused its investigation on the Secret Service failures on July 13^th and, of course, the public already is aware of the enormous Secret Service failures by virtue of shots being fired leaving one person dead and three others wounded including former President Donald Trump.

The second report, The Congressional Bi-Partisan Task Force Interim Staff Report: Investigating the Stunning Security Failures on Jul 13, 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania, is lacking on a number of levels and one can only wonder who, exactly, is leading this “investigation.”

11 Million Potential Mental Health Patients Surge at the Southern Border

Written by Sheila Matthews on October 15, 2024. Posted in Articles.

October 15, 2024

*Migrants walk Monday in southern Mexico, early Monday, Jan. 8, 2024, during their journey toward the US border. Edgar H. Clemente/AP*

Illegal immigration into the United States is a topic second only to the economy during this Presidential election cycle and Americans appear to have little empathy for those that continue to flood over the Southern border. So, it seems predictable that the taxpayers won’t be any too happy about ensuring mental health services are made available to those who are viewed as breaking U.S. immigration laws.

A recent article, though, describes how these illegal or undocumented aliens “are at a higher risk of developing severe mental health disorders.” Apparently, this important study looked at nearly 1,000 people that had immigrated to another country and compared their mental health to that of natural citizens of the same age.

Psychiatric Drug Cocktails: Risky Experiments on Human Minds

Written by Sheila Matthews on October 9, 2024. Posted in Articles.

October 9, 2024

Despite zero understanding of how even one psychiatric drug “works” as “treatment” for alleged mental disorders, the rate of cocktail (polypharmacy) drugging among children is increasing. One doctor called for informed consent about the benefits and risks associated with the “contraindicated” drugging.

A recent study from Lawrence Kleinman, professor of pediatrics at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, reviewed Medicaid data for more than 141,000 patients (under 21) receiving any psychiatric medication and found that nearly 400 of those patients received at least one “potentially dangerous combination” of psychiatric drugs.

Dr. Kleinman warned that “good practice demands that patients and caregivers be informed of and assent to risks and benefits, including informing them that the intended pair of medications is typically contraindicated.” What Kleinman is warning is that there are serious risks to prescribing cocktails of psychiatric drugs and it is not recommended.

Death by Psychiatric Drugging at Connecticut’s Correctional Facility

Written by Sheila Matthews on October 7, 2024. Posted in Articles.

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.”

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

Written by Sheila Matthews on October 2, 2024. Posted in Articles.

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.

Thomas Crooks’ Parents: Behavioral Health Experts in the Spotlight

Written by Sheila Matthews on October 1, 2024. Posted in Articles.

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.”

Bipartisan Task Force Sidesteps Crucial Evidence: Shooter’s Identity and Motive Ignored

Written by Sheila Matthews on September 29, 2024. Posted in Articles.

September 30, 2024

The House Bipartisan Task Force on the Attempted Assassination of Donald J. Trump held its first hearing last week. Grossly incompetent are the words that come to mind.

Unfortunately, the House members of the Task Force don’t understand what information is important in a criminal investigation and, therefore, are unable to ask important, pertinent questions that may provide the American people with accurate information about the attempted assassination.

While no one doubts the Task Force’s desire to get to the bottom of the assassination attempt, what the American people must understand is that the goal of the Task Force is to “identify solutions that will prevent security failures from recurring in the future,” NOT to get to the bottom of who committed the crime and why. Knowing the role of the Task force helps the American people to understand why the members seemed so inept during the “preliminary” hearing.

Death by Drug Cocktail Demands Criminal Charges for Prescribers

Written by Sheila Matthews on September 27, 2024. Posted in Articles.

September 27, 2024

28-year-old Natalie A. Bartock of Butler Pennsylvania died from toxicity from a cocktail of prescribed psychiatric drugs. Bartock’s doctor who prescribed the deadly cocktail of drugs and the pharmacy that filled the prescriptions have settled a civil suit with the decedent’s estate. Having those responsible pay through the nose is great, but the real question is why wasn’t the doctor and pharmacist criminally charged for Bartock’s death?

But before unveiling the death-inducing cocktail of prescribed psychiatric drugs that was provided to Bartock over a two-year period, it seems appropriate to reflect on the criminal charges that women receive when murderous crimes are committed while taking these deadly cocktails, while those prescribing walk free.

1970 Hearing Reveals ADHD as Government-Funded Drug Experiment on Children

Written by Sheila Matthews on September 25, 2024. Posted in Articles.

September 25, 2024

54 Years Ago, September 29, 1970, US House Heaerings

In 1970 a lawmaker wanted to know if the federal government had a hand in drugging school-age children that largely has today remained an unspoken, well-funded, uncontrolled clinical drug trial.

September 29, 1970, New Jersey Congressman Cornelis E. Gallagher held a hearing into the federal government’s role in promoting the use of amphetamines and Ritalin as behavior modification of grammar school children. Fifty-four years later, AbleChild applauds Representative Gallagher for presiding over the House Special Studies Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations investigation as it was one of the first hearings to draw attention to the government’s funding of experimental drug research using school-age children.

Adderall ADHD Drug Causes Psychosis and Mania

Written by Sheila Matthews on September 18, 2024. Posted in Articles.

September 19, 2024

Over the last six months AbleChild has made a point of highlighting the failure of psychiatric diagnosing by repeating the mantra that is supported by available data showing that, despite boat loads of money being funneled into mental health, nobody is getting better.

But it gets worse. Not only are patients not getting better, but because of the “treatment” being prescribed, many are falling victim to excessive diagnosis and serious mental breakdown risks. A recent study conducted by Lauren Moran, a researcher at Mass General Brigham, reveals just how destructive the drugs prescribed to “treat” ADHD can be.