Lawsuits, Just the Cost of Criminal Marketing of Antipsychotic Drugs
"When you’re selling $1 billion a year or more of a drug, it’s very tempting for a company to just ignore the traffic ticket and keep speeding.”
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Child’s Ordeal Shows Risks of Antipsychotic Drugs for Young
The prescribed drugs transformed Kyle Warren from a rambunctious healthy child into a drooling, sedated, obese, “shell.”
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AHRP Letter to Harvard Re: Dr. Biederman’s Research
AHRP proposes a multi-disciplinary team of independent scientists to review ALL of Dr. Joseph Biederman’s publications and supporting documents, including: research protocols, consent forms, and the original (of course, anonymized) data sets with associated code books for all pediatric studies.
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Florida Antipsychotic Pre-Approval Requirement Protects PreschoolChildren
The State of Florida has established a pre-approval requirement to protect preschool children on Medicaid from being exposed to the hazardous effects of antipsychotic drugs. That step has prompted "a seismic change" in doctors’ inappropriate prescribing of antipsychotics for preschool children: the number of prescriptions for this age group has…
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Sen. Grassley Letter to Harvard: Biederman Research Protocol Breaches
The most shocking disclosure is that Dr. Biederman’s study testing powerful antipsychotics in PRESCHOOL CHILDREN "was beset by breaches of research protocol,"
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Grassley to Harvard & Mass General: Biederman Protocol Breach
The most shocking disclosure: a Biederman study testing the use of powerful antipsychotics in PRESCHOOL CHILDREN "was beset by breaches of research protocol."
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Letter of Complaint to FDA Commissioner, 2007
Complaint about a surge of FDA administrative approvals for expanded use of highly toxic antipsychotic drugs for children. Approvals were determined by Dr. Thomas Laughren after secret deliberations–without disclosure of scientific data, without an advisory panel or open public discussion.
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Pre-School Children on Ritalin 2/13/02
AHRP InfoMail Declaration of Helsinki Nuremberg Code Hippocratic Oath Return to Home Page Prescribing Ritalin for Pre-Schoolers FYI A Feb. 4, 2002 press release by The National Institutes ofHealth (NIH) announces a new "finding" by researchers from theNational Institute of Environmental Health Resources (NIEHR). They claim that"more than 15 percent…
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NY Times Whitewashes Ritalin Experiment in Preschool Kids
NY Times Whitewashes Ritalin Experiment in Preschool Kids Sat, 16 Nov 2002 A story in The New York Times magazine about a controversial government sponsored drug experiment avoids examining the tough issues. Instead, it describes the growing pains of an apparently normal 4 year old boy, Sam, whose parents enrolled…
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Public Comments Re: Smallpox Vaccine Trial on 2 to 5 Year Old Children, Pg 4
Anne, comments 1, 2, 3 are (more or less) short repeats… the others are more substantive so I separated them vera Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 6:07 AM Subject: RE: Docket No. 02N–0466 I DO NOT support the smallpox vaccine study, Docket No. 02N–0466. I oppose this study!!! Vaccines are…
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Psychiatry and Preschoolers
Psychiatry and Preschoolers Tue, 1 Jul 2003 There was a time that doctors followed the precautionary “do no harm” principle when prescribing drugs. But the practice of medicine has changed radically as physicians have increasingly become financially tied to the pharmaceutical industry. Among psychiatrists it is difficult to find one…
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Article
Letter from David Healy, MD to Peter J. Pitts Executive Summary of suicidal evidence not addressed by FDA In the light of Traci Johnson’s death on February 7th 2004, will FDA obtain Pfizer’s entire folder on the 1982 Hindmarch study in which healthy volunteers were given Zoloft, and make a…
