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Another Florida Child a Casualty of Lethal Psych Drug Cocktail
“The way Dr. Punjwani treated Emilio Villamar and the manner in which these drugs were prescribed is a picture of everything that’s wrong with this industry and the relationship between doctors and pharmaceutical companies.”
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Psychiatric drugging of American children is cause for alarm
“The age of American children being medicated with prescription psychiatric drugs is getting younger and more widespread every year.”
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12-Year Old Denis Matez: Dead of Psych Drug Cocktail Rx by Psychiatrist
Twelve-year old, Denis Matez (weighing 68 lbs) is a human casualty of psychotropic drug "overmedication"– a notorious psychiatrist entrusted with the care of 800 Florida children in Florida foster care prescribed lethal mega doses for unapproved uses.
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Parity Likely to Increase Wholesale Sedation of Children
"For her last month of life, Kifuji overall prescribed 835 pills to Rebecca….If what Dr. Kifuji did in this case is the acceptable standard of care for children in Massachusetts, then there is something very wrong in this state."
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“Psychosis Risk Syndrome”– Psychiatry’s Hunting License
"Among all the problematic suggestions for DSM5, the proposal for a "Psychosis Risk Syndrome" stands out as the most ill–conceived and potentially harmful." Allen Frances, MD
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Psychiatrist who conducted drug trials on children who suicided getsWarning from FDA
Who is accountable for the chemical torture of children who were subjected to medical maltreatment that borders on criminal negligence?
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Judith Warner misses the real questions about medicating children
"Judith Warner’s book illustrates the perils of preferring stories to science."
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Rebecca Riley’s Murderous Care Remembered
"Her mother’s murder trial has been over for a couple of weeks now, but I’m still haunted by little Rebecca Riley."
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DSM5 Revisions
"Anything you put in that book, any little change you make, has huge implications not only for psychiatry but for pharmaceutical marketing, research, for the legal system, for who’s considered to be normal or not, for who’s considered disabled," said Dr. Michael First, professor of psychiatry at Columbia University who edited the DSM4l but is not involved in the DSM5.
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Antidepressants shown worthless for most consumers
The comments below expand upon an Infomail about the recently published JAMA meta-analysis.
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America’s Poor Children Likelier to Get Antipsychotics_NYT
A front page article in The New York Times raises the long-overdue alarms about the forced drugging of American children–in particular poor children who are condemned to ingest toxic neuroleptics (a.k.a. ‘atypical antipsychotics) at a rate four times higher than children whose parents have private insurance. These drugs qualify under…
Psych Drugs
Drug Safety Issues: Psychotropic Drugs