AHRP Urges Actions to Minimize Risks for Children prescribed psychotropic drugs: Action is needed to protect children from widespread prescribing of psychoactive drugs for ill-defined behavioral symptoms.
The Associated Press reports that a just released study that found that a staggering, two and half million children in the U.S. are being prescribed antipsychotics annually–that’s 40 out of every 1,000 children.
Psychiatric Adverse Events Associated with Drug Treatment of ADHD: Review of Postmarketing Safety Data
From both sides of the Atlantic, even psychiatrists are acknowledging–the ADHD diagnosis makes no sense.
"More than 7 million americans are estimated to have misused stimulant drugs."
"This is out-of-control use of drugs that have profound cardiovascular consequences. We have got a potential public health crisis. I think patients and families need to be made aware of these concerns."
Children have been dying from exposure to psychostimulant drugs as the FDA looked the other way:
We are, however, very distressed at what appears to us to be a significant discrepancy between your statements and the reality of SAMHSA’s role in implementing the NFC report recommendations, as well as other discrepancies between your statements and SAMHSA’s actions.
Your average car would cost $4.5 million, representing a 30,000% markup over cost, which is typical for prescription drugs.
A Brandeis University study reviewed clinical practice (doctor office visits) and found that drug prescriptions for the treatment of depression, anxiety and mood or attention disorders in teenagers (14 to 18) increased by 250% between 1994-2001.
Slide 2: I’ll begin with the President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health[1] recommendation to screen the US population for mental illness – 52 million children first. In no other democratic country has the government adopted a policy to screen the population for presumed, undetected, mental illness. The rationale behind this mind-boggling Orwellian nightmare is not improving mental health, but rather increasing life-long consumers of psychoactive drugs and to control behavior. Two NFC recommendations are designed to do just that. TeenScreen is promoted as a suicide prevention model when it in fact, increases the number of children labeled suicidal and depressed.
Gov Accountability Project Creates “FactSquad” on Rx Drugs December 11, 2005 In the wake of the credibility crisis public trust in the safety of FDA-approved prescription drugs is eroded. The Government Accounability Project (GAP) has established a “Fact Squad” to challenge poor performance; in particular, FDA’s failure to protect the…
