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Anonymous:
Anon,
Could we chat, perhaps? I went through SCL and they're not getting much publicity at all. People want to put all the blame on TB and not hold SCL accountable for the intense mistreatment of students there. I highly suggest you do go to the media with your story. I've been trying for a year now to get the spotlight shone on SCL in Montana. Your story is horrific, and I know there are lots others like it, including mine.
MelissaR:
Whoops that was from me
Anonymous:
The U.S. Congress also has taken interest in the Utah-based WorldWide Association of Specialty Programs (WWASP), the behavior-modification umbrella organization to which Dundee belonged.
House Representative George Miller of California, the ranking Democrat on the House Education Committee, last month asked the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to review WWASP's tax-exempt status and investigate whether the organization has received any special tax treatment in the past.
One of Rep. Miller's congressional aides said this week that the congressman also is preparing to ask U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft to open a federal criminal investigation into alleged child mistreatment at WWASP programs
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Anonymous:
Ginger---Paxil and Prozac are part of the same *class* of drugs---Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors---but are two different drugs.
Paxil is Paroxetene HCl and Prozac is Fluxetine HCl.
The difference in effect has to do with the half-life of the drugs in the bloodstream.
Paxil gets cleaned out of your system much faster than Prozac, so if you don't take your dose regularly you can experience a combined return of symptoms and withdrawal.
Paxil is also available in a time-release form that tends to moderate this problem.
OTOH, it's not that Paxil's a "bad drug"---it's the *least* likely of the SSRI's to make a bipolar patient go manic, so it can be safer for those bipolars who need an antidepressant than Prozac is.
It also depends a *lot* on the individual reaction to the drug. People have very individual biochemistries and a lot of times medical treatment for psychiatric problems, for those of us who need it, is a very individual process of trial and error until the doctor finds the meds that work best with that particular patient with the fewest side effects.
However, NONE of these drugs should be given to unwilling pediatric patients by the kinds of unlicensed pseudo-shrinks that are hired to staff these schools.
Deborah:
**However, NONE of these drugs should be given to unwilling pediatric patients by the kinds of unlicensed pseudo-shrinks that are hired to staff these schools.
You give them way too much credit by refering to them as "schools". They are teen warehousing facilties, behavior modification programs. Some happen to have an educational component- required when you house children 24/7. Continuing to refer to them as schools is to collude with the illusion they are selling.
Further, I'm very concerned about the spin on "emotional growth cirriculum"- attempt to blend psychiatry and education; and the creation of new licensing catagories that allow for these experimental programs.
Deborah
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