Mandatory Psychological Tests For Kids

[Guest guest]

Thanks Misty. I read the article and it does have some frightening

possibilities. I suspect that the pregnant women and adults mentioned in

the article as also being tested would refer to adults in any government

program, such as subsidized counseling and prenatal care through Medicaid

and Medicare. One only need look at the huge numbers of these people who

are already being given psychotropic drugs to see where this could lead.

 

I've worked in social services for many years and have been astounded at

the number of low income, elderly and disabled individuals who have been

placed on mood/mind altering drugs in the past 10 years, including children.

 

I have not seen any figures on this and would be very interested in seeing

any articles or studies that have been done concerning this

situation. Every time I hear about the strain on the Medicare system I

cringe because I know a large proportion of this drain is going straight to

the drug industry as more and more psychotropic drugs are being prescribed.

 

I have been in the position of taking clients to psychiatrists for monthly

or bi-monthly medication checks where the psychiatrist spends 5 minutes or

so with each client, renews the prescriptions, sometimes adding an

additional psychotropic and then sends them on their way and ushers in the

next med check medicaid client. There are many ways this health system is

being bilked and this is one of them.

 

The use of behavioral meds for children is probably the worst of this. I

too would fear for the health of our children if the system had more access

to our children than they now do.

 

Kathy

 

 

At 11:34 AM 11/28/2004, you wrote:

 

 

>Dear Kathy...

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>Thank you for your post...

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>Just to let you know, if a url is longer than a line, you need to

>copy the whole url into your browser... Then the link works...