Drugs for children / chemical restraints

[Guest guest]

Sunshine is the great disinfectant!

 

The Wall Street Journal reports that antipsychotic drug prescriptions for

children--which the drug industry has targeted for market expansion--are

decelerating!!

 

The class of drugs formerly called neuroleptics, now referred to as

'atypical' antipsychotics are the most toxic drugs to be approved for

non-life-threatening diseases. These drugs are used primarily as chemical

restraints--much as the older versions when they were described as major

tranquilizers. The difference is that the old neuroleptics were prescribed

almost exclusively for psychotic patients diagnosed with schizophrenia,

whereas the newer versions

 

This is a result of public awareness--thanks to information uncovered during

litigation, by Sen. Charles Grassley's investigative team, by

whistleblowers, and the press!

 

This confirms the need not only for the Physicians' Payment Sunshine Act,

but for a law requiring drug manufacturers to disclose ALL clinical trial

data on an independently administered website.

 

Both drug companies and psychiatry's leadership at prominent academic

institutions who serve as industry's paid consultant / promoters, have been

shown to inflate minimal (clinically insignificant) benefits, while

concealing severe, life-threatening risks posed by psychotropic drugs.

Neither industry nor the profession can be trusted.

 

Clinicians for the most part are ignorant about the hazards of psychotropic

drugs they prescribe. Such prescribing has resulted in preventable,

drug-related deaths--some of the casualties are as young as four year old,

Rebecca Riley, who was healthy save for the toxic effects of the drugs she

was prescribed by a child psychiatrist who followed the protocol recommended

by prominent child psychiatrists on the faculty of Harvard Medical School.

 

The latest publicized child casualty of psychiatry's reckless prescribing

practices is Gabriel Myers, a 7-year old boy who committed suicide by

hanging himself from a shower rod. Gabriel had been prescribed four

powerful psychotropic drugs by a " board certified child psychiatrist " in

Florida.

 

The drugs he was prescribed a deadly combination: Vyvanse, an amphetamine,

Lexapro, an antidepressant, the antipsychotic Zyprexa, and Symbyax, a drug

that combines Zyprexa with another antidepressant, Prozac.

 

See, reports from the Miami Herald, CBS, Sun Sentinel, and a powerful essay

by Richard Warner (whom we do not know) " Depraved Indifference: Drunk

Driving on the Therapeutic Highway " at: http://gabrielmyers.wordpress.com/

 

 

Contact: Vera Hassner Sharav

[Guest guest]

while i agree with most of the posts in this discussion of the bipolar in

children and keeping them drug free not one person has mentioned what it is like

to be a parent of one of these children. i am a mother of a bipolar son as

mentioned before and while i am not happy my son is on " drugs " it is better than

the alternative. which is when alex isn't stable i have found him twice trying

to commit suicide. any mother out there has got to feel my pain. hell any

parent. so while i have got him on medication, i have also changed his diet and

he exercises and gets sunshine and vitamins. but anyone that has raised " normal "

teenagers knows that you can't get them to commit to all the natural approaches

that have been mentioned in these posts. if you catch a kid at three with these

issues then it can be programmed but not as a teen. i have seen alex come a

long way and is more accepting of natural approaches so there is hope that he

will one day be able to handle those things on his own. but until then having my

child alive beats the alternative. annie

[Guest guest]

Annie, I agree with you. It'd be great if, say, fish oil alone worked for

bipolar but even if fish oil helped some people, it wouldn't help all.

Prescription medications are often really needed. My son has OCD (age 20) and I

know many parents who are dealing with children with bipolar and OCD. Anyway,

we've tried lots of alternatives to help with his OCD as he refuses to get a

prescription now. Nothing has helped. I'm all for his going back on Celexa for

his OCD (it's severe) but he won't. He took Celexa in 9th and 10th grades,

worked well. He did take inositol powder in middle school for his OCD and it

helped lots. But in high school when his OCD returned (in a different way),

inositol powder and nothing else we tried has helped a bit.

 

Chris in NC

 

 

, " orfanannie69 " <orfanannie69

wrote:

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> while i agree with most of the posts in this discussion of the bipolar in

children and keeping them drug free not one person has mentioned what it is like

to be a parent of one of these children. i am a mother of a bipolar son as

mentioned before and while i am not happy my son is on " drugs " it is better than

the alternative. which