Preschoolers used in psychotropic drug experiment

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Outrage! Preschoolers used as guinea pigs in psychotropic drug tests

Posted Thursday, May 18, 2006 by Mike Adams

 

Today's NewsTarget article covers a shocking drug trial conducted

last year at Massachusetts General Hospital. The study used

preschoolers to test the efficacy of the psychotropic drug Quetiapine.

learn why you should be outraged at this scandalous medical abuse.

 

http://www.NewsTarget.com/019389.html

 

 

As ClinicalTrials.gov reveals, in 2005, Massachusetts General Hospital

conducted an 8-week trial study that recruited children as young as

four years old to be drugged and monitored, including having their

blood drawn, to see if their tiny four-year-old bodies would tolerate

a powerful psychotropic drug (Seroquel).

 

Here's more from ClinicalTrials.gov:

 

This is an 8-week open-label study aimed at assessing the

effectiveness and tolerability of Quetiapine, in the treatment of

preschool children aged 4 to 6 years with bipolar and bipolar spectrum

disorder. This is an exploratory, pilot study, seeking to determine

whether Quetiapine is efficacious and well tolerated in the treatment

of preschoolers with pediatric bipolar and bipolar spectrum disorder

in this age group.

 

Ages Eligible for Study:4 Years - 6 Years, Genders Eligible for Study:

Both

 

Subject must be able to participate in mandatory blood draws.

 

Massachusetts General Hospital, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138,

United States; Recruiting

 

Joseph Biederman, MD, Principal Investigator

 

Chemical child abuse

In my view, this exploitation of young children for drug testing

amounts to nothing less than chemical child abuse. What possible

medical justification could these doctors, hospital staff and drug

pushers have for prescribing mind-altering drugs to four-year-olds?

Even the " disease " being treated here is entirely fictional. So-called

" bi-polar disorder " was wholly invented by psychiatrists with strong

financial ties to drug companies. The purpose of this disease is not

to help children, but to sell drugs to anyone and everyone, including

toddlers.

 

I often wonder when the rest of the country will wake up and notice

that the mass-drugging of our nation's children has gone too far. Why

isn't the mainstream media giving this front-page coverage? Why aren't

lawmakers demanding an end to the chemical abuse of our children? Why

isn't the FDA halting these trials on toddlers out of plain decency?

 

You already know the answer: Because they're all making money from

this chemical assault on our nation's children. The doctors,

hospitals, drug companies, psychiatrists and mainstream media all

profit handsomely from the sales of mind-altering drugs to children.

Ethics will never get in the way of old-fashioned greed, even when

we're talking about the health and lives of four-year-olds.

 

Modern psychiatry, with all its false authority, drugging of children

and rampant disease mongering, is an affront to all people who believe

in honest medical science and basic human decency. Armed with the

DSM-IV, on-the-take psychiatrists invent diseases out of thin air

(like " bi-polar disorder " ), then vote official treatment protocols

into the reference books. Yet a recent review of such decision panels

reveals that one hundred percent of the psychiatrists and doctors

involved in such decisions have financial ties to the drug companies

that coincidentally happen to manufacture the recommended drugs.

 

This is a life-threatening scandal of such proportion that it deserves

a Dept. of Justice investigation, complete with criminal charges being

brought against many of these so-called " doctors. " To characterize

this as a crime against humanity is not an exaggeration.

 

Blatant quackery

 

Let's face it: Modern psychiatry and its incessant disease mongering

amounts to quackery at its worst. This group both invents the

diseases, then hawks the snake oil that " treats " those diseases. And

underneath it all, there's absolutely no physiological evidence of any

such diseases at all. They can be diagnosed in children on a whim,

based on a mere sixty seconds of casual observation combined with the

biased opinion of a drug-pushing psychiatrist being bribed by Big

Pharma.

 

Related article

Mass drugging of schoolchildren remains dark secret of public

education, psychiatry

 

 

This is not medicine, folks. And it's certainly not science. It's

just plain medical fraud. Yet the whole of conventional medicine goes

along with it, pretending that nothing is amiss. Doctors, hospitals,

FDA bureaucrats, teachers and even many parents just pretend that all

these mysterious brain chemistry diseases have spontaneously appeared

in the world over the last ten years, suddenly afflicting tens of

millions of children. And thank goodness the drug companies just

happened to have invented all these treatment drugs at the exact same

moment in history when these psychiatric diseases became so

widespread! Imagine the odds...

 

Where are the skeptics on this issue? Where are the quack busters on

the drugging of our children? The silence is deafening. They have

nothing to say about the lack of science behind psychiatric disease

mongering. They aren't skeptical at all. Clear thinking, it seems,

isn't allowed when the conclusions might question the institutions of

modern medicine. And thus, the skeptics reveal themselves as little

more than purveyors of medical dogma; protectors of a

drug-the-children medical cult that demands unquestioning obedience to

its profit-minded beliefs.

 

Good science has long since left psychiatry. And if you want to know

the true, horrifying history of the mental health industry, visit the

Citizen's Commission on Human Rights. Prepare to be shocked.

 

Born psychotic

Psychiatry believes there is no child too young to diagnose as having

psychiatric disorders. It won't be long before psychiatrists will be

hanging out in delivery rooms, declaring children to be mentally

diseased at birth (because they keep crying, obviously) and

immediately injected with powerful mind-altering drugs. To psychiatry,

human life has no value other than the possibility of creating a new

paying customer, and every new birth is seen as another opportunity

for dispensing profitable drugs.

 

There's no end to the evil that psychiatry might do in the years

ahead. As long as society continues to give psychiatrists carte

blanche to invent fictitious diseases, there is no human behavior,

emotion or condition that's safe from being labeled a pathology.

So-called " adult ADHD screening tests " label a whopping 80 percent of

participants with the disease. Behavioral disorders screenings for

children demonstrate similar numbers. And the things that can get you

labeled as " diseased " are all too mundane: Feeling overwhelmed,

feeling distracted by modern life, handling too many projects as once,

being afraid of public speaking, feeling shy in social situations...

gee, is there anyone who doesn't experience these sooner or later?

 

But it wasn't enough to attempt to drug up all the adults, you see.

Modern psychiatry had to expand its markets, and that meant reaching

younger and younger " customers. " A couple of decades ago, they started

drugging teens with antidepressant drugs. Then they attacked younger

schoolchildren with Ritalin. Now they're targeting preschoolers, and

the trend is clear: Children will soon be " born psychotic " if

psychiatry has anything to do with it.

 

Years ago, the giant soda companies handed out baby bottles emblazed

with the logos of their flagship soft drink products. The idea was to

get mothers to feed their infants soda instead of infant formula,

thereby altering the taste of the infant for life, creating a lifelong

consumer of soft drinks. When I first uncovered this disturbing

report, I thought it was perhaps the most evil thing a corporation

could do to the health of infants. But now, psychiatry takes the prize.

 

Using four-year-olds as guinea pigs to test psychotropic drugs is more

than merely unethical; it's predatory. It's Nazi-esque in its use of

human beings for medical experiments, and yet it remains strangely

acceptable across society. Child Protective Services does nothing.

Hospitals gladly run the trials (they get paid, of course).

Psychiatrists and doctors happily drug these children, observe them,

then draw their blood, all in the name of corporate profits. And thus,

they all join the long and sordid history of human medical

experimentation that demonstrates ethics, or human lives, or plain

decency will never get in the way of the forward march of medicine.

 

Related article

Human medical experimentation in the United States: The shocking true

history of modern medicine and psychiatry (1833-1965)

 

The complicity of conventional medicine is astounding. The American

Medical Association, to my knowledge, says nothing skeptical about

disease mongering by psychiatry. Few doctors see any problem at all,

and fewer still have the courage to speak out. The FDA, which is

supposed to protect people, gladly approves one psychotropic drug

after another, even for use on toddlers. Lawmakers take campaign

finance contributions from drug companies and look the other way, and

the mainstream media continues publicizing fictitious diseases,

lending them false credibility and creating customer demand for

dangerous drugs.

 

Only a handful of doctors, authors, organizations and celebrities dare

tell the truth on this issue, and they are singled out for incessant

ridicule. Take Tom Cruise, for example. Although he speaks the truth

about the drugging of children, he is endlessly dragged through the

mud of public opinion simply because he expresses authentic passion

for ending this chemical child abuse. Cruise should be applauded for

his efforts, not ridiculed.

 

Let's hospitalize the psychiatrists

When it comes to mental health, there is one group of people in this

country that truly needs to be drugged: The psychiatrists. Because to

practice psychiatry today, and to support the mass drugging of

toddlers and schoolchildren, is to demonstrate a deep-rooted madness

that may justify chemical restraint. To drug toddlers, or to use them

for medical experiments, should be rightly regarded as a crime. And

there's no question whatsoever that the children of our nation would

be safer, healthier and happier if the practice of modern psychiatry

simply disappeared.

 

Besides, the real cause of depression, mood swings, emotional

disorders or other so-called " diseases " mostly comes down to diet and

lifestyle. Remove the food additives and refined sugars from a child's

diet, and he returns to normal in about two weeks. Feed children

healthy oils, live foods, whole grains and superfoods, and you

automatically create energetic, curious, fast-learning children who

need no drugs. Give children some sunshine, play time and some time

with nature, and you get balanced, healthy children. It's no secret,

it's just common sense.

 

But psychiatry has no common sense, and no one in the industry dares

mention that most so-called mental disorders are really just caused by

nutritional imbalances. Because to admit to the truth about the mental

health of children would be to render their careers irrelevant. And no

psychiatrist is going to commit career suicide by admitting that

bi-polar disorder was just made up, or that toddlers need good food,

not expensive drugs. Just like conventional doctors, psychiatrists

have to protect their egos and revenue streams, and that means

convincing parents that little Johnny has a brain chemistry imbalance

and he'll have to take psychotropic drugs for life. The parents, as

gullible as ever, naively go along with the scam, usually after being

frightened into compliance by a psychiatrist who warns them what might

happy to little Johnny of they don't drug him. " He might commit

suicide, " they're sternly warned.

 

Will the scams of modern medicine never cease? Is there no child too

young to be targeted for medical experiments? Will the sinister desire

for Big Pharma profits ever be balanced against basic human decency?

 

Probably not. The world has, indeed, gone half mad. And psychiatry is

standing by, ready to drug everyone, regardless of their age or mental

health status.

 

 

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