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Article: NAMI Condemns Congressional Hearing for Promoting 'Bad Science': House Hearing with Lisa Marie Presley Trivializes Challenge of Mental Illnesses, Putting Children at Risk.
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- September 25, 2002
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ARLINGTON, Va. -- The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) criticized the House of Representatives' Committee on Government Reform for scheduling a hearing tomorrow on the "Overmedication of Hyperactive Children" -- late in the waning days of the legislative session -- that will largely recycle bad science and trivialize the need for early identification and treatment of mental illnesses in children and adolescents.
"It seems to happen every election year," said NAMI national executive director Richard C. Birkel, Ph.D. "On September 29, 2000, it was a hearing by the oversight subcommittee of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce on ...