Allen Jones, who worked as an investigator in the Pennsylvania Office of the Inspector General (OIG), gained widespread attention as a 'whistleblower

Whistleblower

A whistleblower is a person who tells the public or someone in authority about alleged dishonest or illegal activities occurring in a government department, a public or private organization, or a company...

' after voicing concerns about attempts by the pharmaceutical industry to implement a mental health

Mental health

Mental health describes either a level of cognitive or emotional well-being or an absence of a mental disorder. From perspectives of the discipline of positive psychology or holism mental health may include an individual's ability to enjoy life and procure a balance between life activities and...

 screening plan, based on the controversial Texas Medication Algorithm Project

Texas Medication Algorithm Project

The Texas Medication Algorithm Project is a decision-tree medical algorithm, the design of which was based on the expert opinions of mental health specialists. It has provided and rolled out a set of psychiatric management guidelines for doctors treating certain mental disorders within Texas'...

 (TMAP), in Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...

. Subsequently, TMAP has been recommended as a model for use throughout the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 by the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health

New Freedom Commission on Mental Health

The controversial New Freedom Commission on Mental Health was established by U.S. President George W. Bush in April 2002 to conduct a comprehensive study of the U.S. mental health service delivery system and make recommendations based on its findings...

, a panel whose members were hand picked by George W. Bush

George W. Bush

George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....

.

See also

• Anti-psychiatry
  Anti-psychiatry
  Anti-psychiatry is a configuration of groups and theoretical constructs that emerged in the 1960s, and questioned the fundamental assumptions and practices of psychiatry, such as its claim that it achieves universal, scientific objectivity. Its igniting influences were Michel Foucault, R.D. Laing,...
  
  
• Biological psychiatry
  Biological psychiatry
  Biological psychiatry, or biopsychiatry is an approach to psychiatry that aims to understand mental disorder in terms of the biological function of the nervous system. It is interdisciplinary in its approach and draws on sciences such as neuroscience, psychopharmacology, biochemistry, genetics and...
  
  
• New Freedom Commission on Mental Health
  New Freedom Commission on Mental Health
  The controversial New Freedom Commission on Mental Health was established by U.S. President George W. Bush in April 2002 to conduct a comprehensive study of the U.S. mental health service delivery system and make recommendations based on its findings...
  
  

External links

• AHRP.org - 'Bush Plans to Screen Whole US Population for Mental Illness - BMJ', Alliance for Human Research (June 24, 2004)
• MentalHealthCommission.gov - President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health (official US government website)
• ZMag.org - 'Eli Lilly, Zyprexa & the Bush Family: The Diseasing of our Malaise' Bruce Levine (May, 2004)