Doping the Kids-  The Pharmacaust Also see Pills 101

"Psychiatry is to medicine what astrology is to astronomy" - Leonard Roy Frank

Review rules on meds for foster kids
By Mary Margaret Oliver
Atlanta Journal- Constitution
7:14 p.m. Thursday, November 18, 2010

Georgia- Tommy made good grades in the first grade, and his teacher said he was a big help and a delight to have in the classroom. Soon after this report card was sent home, Tommy’s toddler sister drowned in the bathtub while Tommy was watching her and his other siblings. Tommy’s parents were arrested, the surviving children entered foster care and Tommy’s early successes and hopes for the future began to fade.

Today, Tommy is 13, living in an expensive restrictive institution and on multiple psychotropic drugs for his behavior, some of which are not Federal Drug and Administration approved for use by children. These drugs come with side-effects like involuntary jerking motions and fatigue, hard for any teenager. His parents are now out of prison but have left Georgia and taken Tommy’s sibling with them. No adult outside of government caseworkers and its contractors are connected to Tommy. He has few visitors. And yet, Tommy is still making good grades, and he hopes to be placed in a loving home with real parents soon.

Tommy is a real child, although Tommy is not his real name, and his story is one case reviewed during Georgia’s Cold Case Project, a project sponsored by the Supreme Court of Georgia’s Committee on Justice for Children charged with improving the legal process for children in the courts as result of abuse and neglect.

With federal Court Improvement Project funding, the committee, chaired by Justice Harris Hines, and in full partnership with the Division of Families and Children Services, first identified children who have lingered in foster care for many years, with multiple placements, and no connection to their original family.

The committee hired attorneys to work as “Fellows” to the Supreme Court, reviewed in detail 214 cases, and with a specialized research firm have made recommendations for improvement for both for these particular children and the system. The full report on the yearlong Cold Case Project is available at www.georgiacourts.gov.

One of the 15 recommendations from the Cold Case Project’s report is for Georgia to provide independent oversight of mental health treatment, specifically that children’s medications be routinely reviewed by an independent psychiatrist. Case reviews have detailed tragic consequences of prescribing multiple psychotropic drugs, and this issue has received national attention, based both on what is adequate medical care and the costs.

Children as young as 12 in the review were observed to be on more than four psychotropic drugs simultaneously. Research is clear that over medication can result in negative symptoms, can be used for discipline or control issues, and is particularly a problem for children in foster care where there is no loving family member who advocates for, or is connected to, the child and to his or her future.

I pre-filed HB 23 this week, which requires DFCS to implement rules creating a process for independent medical review of mental health treatment programs for foster care children. While Georgia’s child welfare system has much improved during the past 10 years, there are still specific, complex problems that must be addressed and not merely endured. The most vulnerable children in our state’s foster care system deserve nothing less, and specifically Tommy deserves a home.

Who should decide and oversee psychotropic medications for children in foster care where there is no loving or competent parent? This is an important question for Tommy and hundreds of other children, and they deserve our response.

State Rep. Mary Margaret Oliver, a Democrat, represents a portion of middle DeKalb County in the Legislature.

http://www.ajc.com/opinion/review-rules-on-meds-746035.html

1 in 5 Texas foster children on psychotropics
By: Heidi Zhou-Castro
News 8 Austin
10-26-2010

Ashley Schmidt said her teen years were a blur, and if you ask the now 21-year-old what movies or bands she liked, she draws a blank.

But Schmidt quickly remembers a different kind of list that marked her adolescence, the names of the nine psychotropic drugs she was once on as a foster child.

"In my opinion it was like they just wanted you to remain in a state of, I don't know, just where you weren't a nuisance to anybody," Schmidt said.

After entering foster care at age 15, Schmidt was in essence raised by psychiatrists, case workers and staff members of residential treatment centers.

"They made us do mouth checks and stuff like that to make it a point we took our meds," she said.

Psychotropics are drugs that change brain function and can have severe side effects. Schmidt said they made her feel sleepy, anxious and unable to concentrate. Her grades dropped from A’s and B's, to D's and F's. And according to Schmidt, the drugs didn't really treat her bipolar disorder; they only masked it.

"Maybe if it had been a good difference, it would have been better, but seeing as how it made me feel like a complete zombie, I guess. I lost track of time," she said.

...."It angers me we go through what we go through, and it's not our choice," she said.

FULL STORY Don't miss the Video there

Note that a few years ago, it was ONE IN FOUR foster kids in Texas were on psychotropics

Also see Broken Children, Broken System

And also see the AFRA Doping the Kids- The Pharmacaust

Government is daring to keep kids on drugs
By Tom Lyons
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Sarasota Herald Tribune

..." So I was surprised at the FDA's response when Sheldon wrote to ask how many Florida foster children were involved in drug studies as they bounce from foster family to foster family.

Jill Hartzler, an associate FDA commissioner, responded that the FDA -- which oversees the studies to make sure children's involvement is approved and understood by parents or guardians -- didn't have an exact number. Or even an estimate. The FDA, in fact, doesn't have the slightest idea how many Florida foster kids are or have been involved in its drug studies.

But that wasn't the weirdest part. Hartzler and the FDA also urged that Florida not bar foster kids from drug trials, arguing that benefits can outweigh risks.

I'm happy to say Sheldon is not taking that advice. But as he explains his reasoning more tactfully than does Richard Wexler of the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform, I'll quote Wexler, who says the FDA's position is absurd.

"I would love to ask Associate Commissioner Hartzler," Wexler said, "if she'd care to let a total stranger decide if her children should be enrolled in a trial for a potentially dangerous drug."

Gov't says abuse of prescription meds skyrocketing
AP
July 15, 2010

WASHINGTON – A new government study finds a 400 percent increase in the number of people admitted to treatment for abusing prescription pain medication.

The increase in substance abuse among people ages 12 and older was recorded during the 10-year-period from 1998 to 2008. It spans every gender, race, ethnicity, education and employment level, and all regions of the country.

The study was released Thursday by Gil Kerlikowske (kur-lih-KOW'-skee), director of the White House office of drug control policy. Kerlikowske says prescription drug abuse is now the second-most prevalent form of illicit drug use in the country, and the nation's fastest-growing drug problem.

THE EXPLOSION OF CHILDHOOD ILLNESS
By Dr. Renee Tocco
June 29, 2010
NewsWithViews.com

Psychotropic Drug Use in Foster Care System Under Investigation
Providentia
June 22, 2010

New rules ensure kids in Oregon foster care get right psychiatric drugs, but not too many
Published: Monday, June 14, 2010, 8:23 PM     Updated: Tuesday, June 15, 2010, 6:13 AM
Michelle Cole, The Oregonian

Justin Snegirev mostly remembers feeling nauseous, tired and alone during the more than seven years he spent in state foster care.

Placed in a foster home when he was 8, Snegirev says it wasn't long before he was prescribed Ritalin, a drug used to treat attention deficit disorders. Next came an antidepressant and then a sleeping pill. Between ages 8 and 15, Snegirev says he was given at least seven different types of psychiatric drugs.

But he wasn't mentally ill, says Snegirev, now 20. "I was in an abusive situation and was a kid who simply was expressing symptoms of abuse -- and nobody was listening to me."   FULL STORY

Yay whoopie!  Justin Snegirev's story finally makes the paper!  I am so happy about that, I am forgetting to bother tearing up the very premise that foster kids need dope at all. 

Why are Drug Companies Targeting Your Children as Customers?
Posted By Dr. Mercola | June 10 2010

In 2009, the increase of prescription drug use among children was nearly four times higher than in the overall population, making children the leading growth demographic for the drug industry.

One in four insured children, and nearly 30 percent of adolescents, took at least one prescription medication to treat a chronic condition in 2009.

Reuters reports:

"Over the past nine years, the most substantial increases in the medicating of children were seen in drugs for conditions not typically associated with them, such as for type 2 diabetes and antipsychotics ... Some long-standing childhood maladies also saw large increases, such as asthma."  FULL STORY

Youth lock-ups blasted
Star investigation Hearings order release of children found not to have mental disorders
Published On Wed Jul 07 2010
RICHARD LAUTENS/TORONTO STAR

Just around the corner from the Eaton Centre, a psychiatric facility is locking up youngsters who don't belong in secure custody, provincial documents reveal.

In one case, a 15-year-old girl's “moderately eccentric interests” in origami and the study of bugs were cited by a psychiatrist at Youthdale Treatment Centre as examples of a possible mental disorder. Another teen's admission of having unprotected sex was taken as evidence of a suicide wish because such behaviour could lead to AIDS.

“Secure treatment is not a placement substitute for child welfare,” a provincial appeal board ruled in ordering the release of a 14-year-old boy with a learning disability and limited school supports.

A Toronto Star review of 32 cases over the past two years where a youth formally appealed the lock-up decision found that nearly half (14) were overturned after an emergency hearing by the Ontario Child and Family Services Review Board. Most of these children were ordered released on the grounds they didn't even have a mental disorder.  FULL STORY

Don't let Gabriel Myers' story be repeated
By Brian J. Cabrey
May 29, 2010
Sun-Sentinel

FLORIDA- Well, it's been more than a year since the suicide death of 7-year-old Gabriel Myers, and what have we learned? What do we know now to prevent this sort of tragedy from ever happening again? Lest we forget, on April 16, 2009, little Gabriel hung himself with a shower hose in the bathroom of his foster home in Margate, Florida.

Gabriel had been the victim of sexual abuse and neglect, which resulted in him being placed in Florida's foster care system. While in foster care, he was regularly "medicated" with multiple psychotropic drugs to deal with his escalating behavioral problems, which were in and of themselves predictable if anyone was paying attention.

In August 2009, the Gabriel Myers Work Group, appointed by DCF Secretary George Sheldon, issued its first report, confirming what most children's advocates had known and decried for years, that the state routinely used mind altering psychotropic drugs, most not tested or approved by the FDA for pediatric use, to control and manage unruly foster kids rather than treat their underlying problems. While it was good for some light to finally be shed on that abhorrent practice, it only exposed half of the problem.

That is until last Friday, when the Gabriel Myers Work Group issued its second report, confirming another longtime complaint of children's advocates. The task force found that the state failed to provide adequate treatment to little Gabriel for the sexual abuse he had suffered and failed to prevent him from acting out sexually against other children, something it is common for child victims of sexual abuse to do.

Sadly, little Gabriel was not alone as all too often the child welfare/foster care system fails to provide child victims of physical and sexual abuse with adequate treatment, if any at all. If they did, not only might the victim children recover as fully as possible to become productive members of society, and other children be spared the same victimization, but in Gabriel's case, he very likely would still be alive.

The question for us now is what is the state of Florida going to do about it?  FULL STORY

CounterPunch / By Evelyn Pringle
An American Phenomenon: The Widespread Psychiatric Drugging of Infants and Toddlers
The United States has become the psychiatric drugging capital of the world, medicating children at a younger and younger age.
April 20, 2010

The United States has become the psychiatric drugging capital of the world for kids with children being medicated at a younger and younger age. Medicaid records in some states show infants less than a year old on drugs for mental disorders.

The Law Project for Psychiatric Rights (PsychRights®) announces the unsealing today of a major Medicaid Fraud lawsuit against psychiatrists, their employers, pharmacies, state officials, and a medical education and publishing company for their roles in submitting fraudulent claims to Medicaid.

....The Complaint walks through the lack of science supporting the practice and the methods used by the pharmaceutical industry to induce psychiatrists to improperly prescribe these drugs. "Even though the drug companies have been using these methods to induce psychiatrists to prescribe these drugs, it is the psychiatrists' responsibility to base their decisions on the facts, not drug company marketing," said Mr. Gottstein, continuing, "the uncritical acceptance of pharmaceutical company hype represents a massive betrayal of trust by the psychiatrists prescribing these drugs to children and youth."  FULL STORY  

Child Myths
Straight Talk About Child Development
by Jean Mercer, Ph.D.
Published on December 12, 2009

Medicaid and Antipsychotic Drugs for Children: Poverty at Work? Poverty itself may cause differences in child mental health treatment.
Published on December 12, 2009

According to research discussed in the New York Times this morning, children whose family poverty makes them eligible for Medicaid are four times as likely to be given antipsychotic drugs than children whose families have private health insurance, and the drugs are more likely to be given to the Medicaid children for less severe mental and behavioral conditions (Wilson,D.[2009, Dec. 12]. Poor children likelier to get antipsychotics. New York Times, p. A1, p. A11). Concerns about this are related to the known potential side effects of such drugs, including serious weight gain and metabolic changes which do not disappear when the medication is stopped. Because of these worries, a group of state Medicaid directors has started a project called "Too Many, Too Much, Too Young" (sorry, I cannot find any web site discussing this project; can readers help?).

Whether the differences in treatment of Medicaid-covered children and privately-insured children are a good thing or a bad one is a question that only appropriate empirical work can answer. It's conceivable, logically, that in spite of the adverse side effects, the "Medicaid children" are receiving benefits that are denied to the privately-insured children. In this post, I am not going to make any attempt to guess at the answer to this question or to recommend how medication OUGHT to be used. Instead, I am going to speculate on possible causes for the situation as it appears to exist. Readers of these speculations should keep in mind two important points: a) that there are differences other than simple income level between the population of families who are eligible for Medicaid and those who are privately insured, and 2) there are treatments for mental illness and behavioral problems that do not involve medication.

So, here are some possible reasons behind the differences in prescription of antipsychotics to different groups of children:  FULL STORY

Poor Children Likelier to Get Antipsychotics
By DUFF WILSON
New York Times
Published: December 11, 2009

New federally financed drug research reveals a stark disparity: children covered by Medicaid are given powerful antipsychotic medicines at a rate four times higher than children whose parents have private insurance. And the Medicaid children are more likely to receive the drugs for less severe conditions than their middle-class counterparts, the data shows.

Children and Antipsychotic Drugs Those findings, by a team from Rutgers and Columbia, are almost certain to add fuel to a long-running debate. Do too many children from poor families receive powerful psychiatric drugs not because they actually need them — but because it is deemed the most efficient and cost-effective way to control problems that may be handled much differently for middle-class children?

The questions go beyond the psychological impact on Medicaid children, serious as that may be. Antipsychotic drugs can also have severe physical side effects, causing drastic weight gain and metabolic changes resulting in lifelong physical problems.

On Tuesday, a pediatric advisory committee to the Food and Drug Administration met to discuss the health risks for all children who take antipsychotics. The panel will consider recommending new label warnings for the drugs, which are now used by hundreds of thousands of people under age 18 in this country, counting both Medicaid patients and those with private insurance.

Meanwhile, a group of Medicaid medical directors from 16 states, under a project they call Too Many, Too Much, Too Young, has been experimenting with ways to reduce prescriptions of antipsychotic drugs among Medicaid children.

They plan to publish a report early next year.  FULL STORY

Orlando Sentinel Editorial 
Doping up our children
August 31, 2009

The state's Department of Children and Families is under fire again, and rightly so.

Recently, a task force issued its final report documenting how weak oversight and lax compliance with guidelines fostered a culture where officials often blindly doled out powerful drugs as chemical pacifiers to help caregivers manage difficult children.

These troubling concerns aren't new to DCF. But in the wake of the withering report, DCF Secretary George Sheldon concedes lapses and vows to heed and fund task-force proposals.

Such accountability is encouraging. But we expected reform before. In 2003, the Statewide Advocacy Council report made similar findings, and concluded, "...unnecessary dispensing of psychotropic medication remains a threat to [foster children]. Until there is more information regarding the safety and efficiency of these drugs, Florida's foster care children should be monitored closely."

That report's proposals were largely ignored. Now, six years later, only swift reforms and a strong mandate to comply with existing rules that govern psychotropic drugs will shelve suspicions that this is déjà vu all over again.  FULL STORY

State panel implicates foster care workers in South Florida 7-year-old's suicide
By Kris Hundley, St Petersburg Times Staff Writer 
In Print: Friday, August 21, 2009

Foster care workers at all levels routinely ignored policies designed to protect children in their care from being given psychotropic drugs without proper consent or monitoring.  These fascist thugs are practicing "medicine" without a license.

That was the conclusion of a panel looking into the April suicide of Gabriel Myers, a 7-year-old foster child who killed himself in Margate, South Florida, while taking two psychotropic medications.

The 26-page report, released Thursday, highlighted a lack of communication, inadequate supervision and inaccurate information in the Department of Children and Families' handling of Myers' case. About 15 percent of foster children in out of home care are on at least one psychotropic medication.  The truth is probably more like 90% are on dope.

DCF Secretary George Sheldon said he looks forward to hearing the work group's recommendations. Among the options: a second-party review of all foster children on psychotropic drugs regardless of the diagnosis.

Or alternatively, WHY DO CHILDREN NEED DOPE?  They just want to go home.

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A more thorough story-

Foster care task force created after 7-year-old Margate boy killed himself wants changes 
A work group assigned to study the death of a Broward youngster released its final report. But advocates ask: Who will pay for the reforms the group recommends?
By CAROL MARBIN MILLER 
MiamiHerald.com
Posted on Friday, 08.21.09

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Final Report of Gabriel Myers Work Group
August 20, 2009

About the Gabriel Myers Work Group

DCF chief: Stricter rules needed in prescribing drugs for foster children
By Kelli Kennedy The Associated Press
3:31 a.m. EDT, August 14, 2009

FORT LAUDERDALE - The head of the state's child welfare agency is recommending stricter rules for prescribing powerful anti-depressants and other drugs to foster children after a 7-year-old in state care committed suicide.

George Sheldon, the secretary of the Department of Children and Families, said Thursday he might consider recommending additional review for all children in state custody on such medications and the appointment of a new in-house state medical director to keep tabs on cases.

The department released a 55-page preliminary finding in the case Thursday, four months after Gabriel Myers hung himself with a retractable showerhead at his foster home.

"If you [prescribe psychotropic meds] there's got to be a treatment plan in place, there's got to be an end date in place and there's got to be ongoing dialogue," Sheldon told The Associated Press.

The new report found a lack of accountability and inadequate supervision in every step of Gabriel's case. FULL STORY

Or someone with common sense could ask why kidnapped 7-year-olds need doped out of their skulls.

Child-welfare panel: Psychotropic drugs relied on to manage foster kids
Florida's mental health system for foster kids relies far too often on drugs, with little oversight, according to a draft report on the suicide of 7-year-old Gabriel Myers.
BY CAROL MARBIN MILLER
cmarbin@MiamiHerald.com
Posted on Wednesday, 08.12.09

This is certainly no new revelation.  This is the standard Method of Operation, and it has been for at least 15 years.  CPS is the very definition of FRAUD upon Medicare.

Foster Parents puts focus on 'chemical restraint' of kids in DCF care
By Marc Caputo, Times/Herald Tallahassee Bureau 
Posted: Jul 22, 2009 06:21 PM

TALLAHASSEE — As Gov. Charlie Crist barnstormed the state to boast about a record number of adoptions in Florida, two adoptive parents urged him Tuesday to go a step further and stop what they called the "chemical restraint'' of overmedicated children in state care.

Mirko and Regina Ceska told Crist that when they adopted their two 12-year-old children last year, each was taking 11 pills daily, including the powerful antipsychotic drug Seroquel. (Black Box Warning)

"These girls were overdosed and would fall asleep right in front of us several times a day," said Mirko Ceska.

"It seems to be a prerequisite for foster children to be on medication," he added.  FULL STORY

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It's an Epidemic of FRAUD.  It is TYRANNY

AS A WEAPON FOR SOCIAL TERRORISM 

The perversion of therapeutics  for POLITICAL PURPOSES is, after all, a TOTALITARIAN tradition.

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Florida Today 
Our views: Foster kid alert
Sanction doctors, child workers who ignore rules in prescribing psychiatric drugs 
July 8, 2009

A new study of doctors’ and caseworkers’ compliance with legal rules when foster kids in Florida are prescribed mental-health drugs, such as antidepressants, is disturbing and demands action.

Among the glaring discrepancies the Department of Children and Families report found:

...In 76 percent of cases, social workers didn’t give parents information about medications prescribed for children.

The report — which looked at 6- and 7-year-olds — also found workers frequently failed to talk with parents or guardians before seeking a court order to medicate a child, or to inform the court if parental consent wasn’t obtained.

...there’s no excuse for ignoring rules meant to protect children who have already been abused or neglected from more harm.

After a final report is issued in August, physicians or workers found to have knowingly broken the rules should face strong sanctions. The disproportionate numbers of Florida’s 20,000 foster kids taking mental-health drugs — more than 13 percent — must also be more deeply investigated.  FULL STORY

Comment from AFRA NewsHawk-

These children aren't having their legal rights represented and protected. This is the fault of the lawyers and judges involved in these cases, until we realize that and demand judges be held accountable for upholding the law- nothing will change.

Study: Florida's psych drug rules for foster kids ignored
A new state study found that child-welfare doctors and case workers aren't following the rules when it comes to the drugging of 6- and 7-year-olds in state care. 
BY MARC CAPUTO Herald/Times Tallahassee Bureau
7-7-09

TALLAHASSEE -- Child-welfare doctors (CPS shills and colluders) and case managers routinely failed to complete legally required treatment plans (or ANY plan other than make him a legal orphan) , share information or properly document (you can be sure they got the applications in for the Social Security Title IV and XX and Medicaid done promptly) the prescribing of powerful psychiatric drugs for children, according to a new state study of 6- and 7-year-olds medicated in state care.

One of the 268 children was Gabriel Myers. The troubled 7-year-old, medicated with an adult anti-depressant known to cause suicides in children (probably a Federal Crime, but who's watching?), hanged himself in April in his Margate foster home.

But the state study, which documents how many times caseworkers and doctors followed child-welfare rules and laws, shows that it would be a mistake to blame Gabriel's death solely on the drug, Symbyax, said Florida's drug czar, William Janes.

''It wasn't just the medications,'' said Janes, who sits on a committee investigating ways to prevent cases like Gabriel's. ``It was the system and his world. His environment just collapsed on him. And there was no one there to really put their arms around him.'' ("In the Best Interest of the Child" and above their pay grade. Too over-worked and under-paid for that. Does it take a village full of idiots to kill a kid?)  FULL STORY

Drugging Our Children to Death
By Gwen Olsen
Health News Digest
Jun 29, 2009 - 8:01:08 PM

The numbers don’t lie. The verdict is in. We are drugging our children to DEATH!

Lawsuit says too many psychiatric drugs killed boy
A disabled boy was lethally overmedicated, a lawsuit contends, as outrage continues over a child's suicide while on several drugs last month.
BY CAROL MARBIN MILLER
cmarbin@miamiherald.com
Posted on Wednesday, 05.20.09

Florida- Amid a wide-ranging debate over the proper use of mental health drugs on troubled children, the mother of a disabled boy who died in 2007 is claiming in a lawsuit the boy was overdosed by a cocktail of psychiatric drugs, including two powerful anti-psychotics.

Martha Quesada, the mother of 12-year-old Denis Maltez, filed a wrongful death and medical malpractice lawsuit Monday in Miami-Dade circuit court, claiming Denis' psychiatrist, Dr. Steven L. Kaplan, and the now-shuttered Rainbow Ranch group home overmedicated Denis and failed to properly monitor his condition.

Denis, who was diagnosed with autism, died of serotonin syndrome, according to a 2007 autopsy by the Miami-Dade Medical Examiner's office.

The rare condition, which can be life-threatening, occurs when a combination of drugs -- particularly mental-health drugs -- causes the brain to produce an excess of serotonin, a chemical produced by nerve cells that regulates mood. The condition can cause rigidity and tremors, as well as confusion and high blood pressure, said Dr. Carlos Singer, a professor of neurology at the University of Miami's medical school.  FULL STORY

Number of foster children in Florida on mood-altering drugs underreported, state study finds
Jon Burstein
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
7:45 PM EDT, May 14, 2009

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A picture is worth a thousand words... Rebecca Riley Rebecca Rileys doctor now the target of a grand jury Rebecca J. Riley died in December of 2006. Her parents are charged with murdering her. By Lane Lambert Fri May 01, 2009, 06:19 AM EDT BOSTON - Already the target of a civil medical malpractice lawsuit, the psychiatrist who prescribed the drugs that killed 4-year-old Rebecca Riley is now the subject of a grand jury criminal investigation. Also see- JACOB AZERRAD:  How many more Rebecca Rileys? To diagnose a 2-year-old as bipolar by adult standards is crazy By Jacob Azerrad The Patriot Ledger Posted Jan 10, 2009 @ 02:20 AM

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A perfect storm Posted: February 02, 2009 1:00 am Eastern By Brian Russell © 2009  There's a "perfect storm" hailing little colored pills down on America's kids with the force of bullets. As a clinical psychologist, I've been forecasting it for years, and now I'm issuing a warning to America's parents that it's here. This "perfect storm" was formed by the convergence of three "fronts":  FULL STORY

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The Pharmacaust: 20,000,000 Dead. So far.

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Law Project for Psychiatric Rights v. State of Alaska (Case No. 3AN 08-10115 CI) In this lawsuit PsychRights is seeking declaratory and injunctive relief that Alaskan children and youth have the right not to be administered psychotropic drugs unless and until: (i)    evidence-based psychosocial interventions have been exhausted, (ii)    rationally anticipated benefits of psychotropic drug treatment outweigh the risks, (iii)    the person or entity authorizing administration of the drug(s) is fully informed, and (iv)    close monitoring of, and appropriate means of responding to, treatment emergent effects are in place, and that all children and youth currently receiving such drugs be evaluated and brought into compliance with the above.

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Marketing a Phony "Miracle" Drug Zyprexa was created to treat schizophrenia, but it wound up being used on depressed moms and misbehaving kids. How one of the nation's biggest pharmaceutical companies turned a flawed, dangerous pill into a multi-billion- dollar bonanza — and who paid the price. Bitter Pill Created to treat schizophrenia, Zyprexa wound up being used on misbehaving kids. How the pharmaceutical industry turned a flawed and dangerous drug into a $16 billion bonanza By Ben Wallace-Wells Jan 28, 2009 I am remembering back to 1999 when my witch CPS worker threatened me with a Federal Charge if I had a problem with our misbehaving kid being on this sort of dope.  CPS totally destroyed him.  And they tried to destroy me too.  Actually, they did

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Making a Killing The Psychotropic Drug Scam

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JACOB AZERRAD: How many more Rebecca Rileys? To diagnose a 2-year-old as bipolar by adult standards is crazy By Jacob Azerrad The Patriot Ledger Posted Jan 10, 2009 @ 02:20 AM

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dis-or-der  (dĭs-ôr'dər) –noun 1. lack of order or regular arrangement; confusion: Your room is in utter disorder. 2. an irregularity: a disorder in legal proceedings. 3. breach of order; disorderly conduct; public disturbance. 4. a disturbance in physical or mental health or functions; malady or dysfunction: a mild stomach disorder. –verb (used with object) 5. to destroy the order or regular arrangement of; disarrange. 6. to derange the physical or mental health or functions of.

DYSFUNCTION JUNCTION

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Psychotropic Medication Patterns Among Youth in Foster Care (PDF) Julie M. Zito, Daniel J. Safer, Devadatta Sai, James F. Gardner, Diane Thomas, Phyllis Coombes, Melissa Dubowski and Maria Mendez-Lewis Pediatrics 2008 CONTEXT. Studies have revealed that youth in foster care covered by Medicaid insurance receive psychotropic medication at a rate >3 times that of Medicaid-insured youth who qualify by low family income This is part and parcel of the FRAUD upon the Federal Funding Streams by CPS and their colluding contractors we complain about.

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The Drugging of Our Children
By Gary Null, 2001

All of a sudden, it seems, millions of American children are said to be afflicted with mental illnesses. And they’re being put on strong medications—over periods of years—as treatment. Isn’t it time we stopped and looked at what the mental health establishment is getting us to do to our children?

http://www.socialworker.com/discus/board.html   By Praetor on Friday, February 11, 2000 - 02:27 pm: Edit Post1)Alternative discipline? I am a social worker in South - Africa. As most poeple know our country has gone through various political changes since 1994, with the fall of "apartheid." This has had various consequences in our schools. Suddenly the number of children per class was increased to about 40-50 per class. Suddenly all races were also mixed in schools. At the same time the basic policies underlying education was changed to that of an outcomes based system like that of many european countries as well as America. Physical punishment, which was a very powerful part of our previous education system and culture was also outlawed. This created a problem. Most teachers were used to using physical forms of punishement like spanking as a diciplinary method. Now they may not, and this has led to chaos in schools. Never before have we seen such discipline troubles in schools. Part of the problems is the fact that teachers lack skills in alternative methods of discipline. This has led me to working with various teachers in order to find solutions. What other methods are open to them? How do they learn these methods? What works and what doesn't? I would enjoy any inputs or advice form other socila workers or students. Well Praetor... there's drugs.  That's about it.  Here in America we are now charging kids with crimes and destroying their future- and their parent's too, rather than spank them. Those are the "alternative methods of discipline". See- How Dr. Spock destroyed America Posted: January 27, 2009 1:00 am Eastern By Reb Bradley © 2009

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Pills 101

These are Candy

These are not

"We assume that humanism will take the path of social and mental hygiene  and discourage sentimental and unreal hopes and wishful thinking." -Humanist Manifesto I, Eleventh Point  The perversion of therapeutics  for POLITICAL PURPOSES is, after all, a TOTALITARIAN tradition.

AS A WEAPON FOR SOCIAL TERRORISM