Signs of Suicide (SOS) is a program developed and promoted by a corporation called Screening for Mental Health, Inc.
 Signs of Suicide is a program not unlike the greatly protested TeenScreen program. Screening for Mental Health, Inc (SMH) has taken MILLIONS in pharmaceutical grants to forward it's program of psychiatric testing in what they say is an effort to reduce suicides, alcoholism, depression and eating "disorders" in high schools, colleges, the workplace and the military.
Screening for Mental Health, Inc is also in charge of the pharmaceutically funded "National Depression Screening Day" (NDSD).
Why would pharmaceutical companies want to support such an organization? Are they altruistic—or do they simply stand to make BILLIONS on the sale of drugs to the people who will be screened?
On this site you will find conclusive and irrefutable evidence that millions in drug money has been dumped into Screening for Mental Health, Inc.
Fears about an increased risk of suicide led the Food and Drug Administration to issue black box warnings on all antidepressants, which are not even approved for children by the FDA. Yet the drug companies continue to shove huge amounts of cash to SMH and similar programs to keep their companies profitable.
Think this is just alarmist propaganda? See the news photo below:
Drug Money—the funding of the Signs of Suicide program
The half-million dollar grant to SMH pictured above is just the tip of the iceberg. Click here to
see the drug company connections concerning the grants to SMH from Eli Lilly, Pfizer, Solvay, Abbott Labs, Wyeth, Forest Pharmaceuticals, The Robert Johnson Foundation, AstaZeneca and GlaxoSmithKline. We have the actual tax returns and grant reports showing how much and when these grants were received by SMH. Drug companies have provided this program with at least $4,985,925.00 up to 2008. Eli Lilly alone has poured over $3,920,425.00 into the program from 1996 to 2008.
The documents on this website show irrefutable proof that major drug companies are funding mental health screening. And, why not? It's a terrific marketing practice that will net the drug companies hundreds of thousands of new customers who will have to deal with their "syndromes", "neuroses" and "disorders" — all through the use of expensive drugs — filling the coffers of the drug companies.
The costs of these drugs will be paid in a large part by MediCare, Medicaid and other similar government programs, which means this money will come out of YOUR pocket through your taxes. State's Medicaid budgets are currently going broke all across the country due to the high costs of these expensive drugs.
Follow the money.
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