In 1992, the Breggins inspired a national campaign against the proposed fed. "Violence Initiative," which was aimed at identifying inner-city children with alleged defects that were said to make them violent when they reached adulthood. The research plans involved searching for a "violence gene," finding "biochemical imbalances," & providing children with psychiatric drugs. These private & public programs -- funded by the pharmaceutical industry & tax dollars -- included studies requiring young subjects to undergo frightening & dangerous spinal taps in the quest for a genetic or biological answer to the rising national crime rate.