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Brown, a child psychiatrist, said Sioux City has six practicing psychiatrists, although not all are specifically trained to work with children. That's a ratio of one for every 20, people, Brown said, given that the medical community here draws from a population between , and , Thirteen new single-family homes will be built in Sioux City for moderate income families under a new program initiated by a nonprofit organization.

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TMAP was exposed as an industry-initiated marketing scam by Allen Jones, a whistleblower who uncovered the evidence of corrupt marketing practices—including fraudulent claims of safety and efficacy, and kickbacks to government officials and prominent academic psychiatirsts that let to the meteoric profits generated TMAP. In essence, these two radical "test and treat" protocols vastly increased the client roster for Big Pharma and mental health providers, providing cover for an unconscionable, ruthless business model.

TeenScreen facilitated a steady flow of adolescents deemed "at risk" who would be prescribed psychotropic drugs recommended by the TMAP Guidelines. These highly toxic drugs carry Black Box label warnings because they have been linked to irreversible, debilitating, chronic or fatal injury in patients at normal prescribed doses.

To combat the adverse effects of any one of these drugs led to presribing additional drugs drug cocktails ensuring life-long psychotropic drug dependence.