A growing trend since the mid-1990's has been to screen teenagers for mental disorders in high schools across the country in order to stop them from committing suicide.  Usually carried out by the TeenScreen National Center for Mental Health Checkups, a tremendous controversy has arisen around such screening, primarily because of the organization's ties to the pharmaceutical industry.  Started at Columbia University in 1991, the TeenScreen program is headed by Laurie Flynn, former head of National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI), a pharma front group that received 56% of its funding from pharma since 2005.  Obviously a pharmaceutical marketing scam, TeenScreen's aim is to screen all 52 million children in the U.S. for mental disorders.  These mental disorders, based on the APA's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM, are nothing more than descriptions of behavior and are literally voted into existence and therefore are not based in science.  Because of the nature of the questions used and the fact that TeenScreen can diagnose up to 30 different mental disorders using them, guest Evelyn Pringle, an investigative journalist, calls TeenScreen “the great suicide prevention hoax” and details why in this 35-minute show.