The Face behind TeenScreen

Teen Screen was developed by psychiatrist Dr. David Shaffer. Dr. Shaffer is one of the best in his field, and he is the developer of the program, yet he cannot back the Teen Screen program 100%. Why? Because this governmental funded program is full of inconsistencies, and even its founder knows this. Case in point, here are two quotes from a few years ago by the good doctor himself.
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Dr. David Shaffer is not only the developer of the TeenScreen Program, but also a spokesman for the manufacturer of Prozac, and is also a paid consultant for 3 pharmaeutical companies, most notable GlaxoSmithKline.

Dr. David Shaffer on False Positive Results
Shaffer says that Teen Screen "does identify a whole bunch of kids who aren't really suicidal, so you get a lot of false-positives. And that means if you're running a large program at a school, you're going to cripple the program because you're going to have too many kids you have to do something about."

When asked how he talks to people who express concern over False-Positives being prescribed medicine, he says: "I think that standing by itself that criticism is meaningless because we don't know what harm the antidepressants do, if any, and we don't know who they do harm to".