A guide to realizing if

your child is at-risk, displaying 

self-destructive behaviors, and

needs your help and intervention.

BENJAMIN RUSH, signer of the Declaration of Independence and America's first Surgeon General, wrote:

The Constitution of this republic should make special provisions for Medical Freedom.

To restrict the art of healing to one class of men and deny equal privileges to others will constitute the Bastille of medical science.  All such laws are un-American and despotic.  They are fragments of monarchy and have no place in a republic.

Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an underground dictatorship.

In 1776, Doctor Benjamin Rush, America's first Surgeon General and the only medical doctor to assist in the drafting of the American Constitution, tried and failed to have medical freedom included in the Constitution.

Dr. Rush wanted every American citizen to have the right to choose and the right to practice the form of medicine that the citizen deemed most beneficial to personal health.  This would also allow the physician the right to practice all forms of medicine.  Dr. Rush feared that medicine would in time  organize into an "undercover dictatorship" that would suppress medical competition.

In 1839 -- 63 years later -- the American Medical Association (AMA) was formed.

Any doctor today getting caught following the Father of Medicine -- Hippocrates' examples of preventive medicine and of letting the patients decide -- is currently in danger of having his or her license revoked.

This is done in the name of public protection.  Tragically, the real protection is for the staggeringly high profits of the drug companies, insurance companies, and the cancer industry.

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If people let the government decide

what foods they eat and what medicines they take,

their bodies will soon be in

as sorry a state as the souls who live under tyranny.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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