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Bill Looks to Curb Medicating State Foster Kids
Eliscu2:
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Great article Felice as usual thanks for the follow up. What is profoundly sad is Gabriel Myers is nothing more then a footnote in this whole outcome.
Do they actually use foster children to try out these drugs in black testing (undercover; pay the foster parents or the foster parents just look the other way).
Danny
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http://http://www.nunya.com/index.php/2010/04/26/why-are-we-drugging-our-kids/
DannyB II:
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Great article Felice as usual thanks for the follow up. What is profoundly sad is Gabriel Myers is nothing more then a footnote in this whole outcome.
Do they actually use foster children to try out these drugs in black testing (undercover; pay the foster parents or the foster parents just look the other way).
Danny
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http://http://www.nunya.com/index.php/2010/04/26/why-are-we-drugging-our-kids/
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1st point:
On June 12, 2009, an FDA advisory panel gave the green light to expand the marketing of Zyprexa, Seroquel and Geodon for use with 13 to 17 year-olds diagnosed with schizophrenia and 10 to 17 year-olds diagnosed with bipolar disorder. The FDA usually follows its advisers’ recommendations.
“Such approval gives manufacturers a shield from liability – for illegally promoting the drugs for off-label use,” said Vera Hassner Sharav, president of the Alliance for Human Research Protection.
“And such approval ensures increased use of these drugs,” she warned. “Manufacturers and mental health providers will profit while children’s physical and mental health will be sacrificed.”
“The body of evidence showing these drugs to be harmful is irrefutable,” she said, “it is documented in FDA’s postmarketing database, and in secret internal company documents uncovered during litigation.”
2nd point:
“Children are known to be compliant patients and that makes them a highly desirable market for drugs, especially when it pertains to large-profit-margin psychiatric drugs, which can be wrought with issues of non-compliance because of their horrendous side effect profiles,” according to a June 29, 2009 paper titled, “Drugging Our Children to Death,” in Health News Digest.com, by Gwen Olsen, who spent over a decade as a pharmaceutical sales rep, and authored the book, “Confessions of an Rx Drug Pusher.”
Children are forced to take their drugs by doctors, parents and school personnel, she said. “So, children are the ideal patient-type because they represent refilled prescription compliance and ‘longevity.’”
“In other words,” Olsen noted, “they will be lifelong patients and repeat customers for Pharma!”
“The initiative to drug our children for profit has exceeded all common sense boundaries and is threatening the welfare of every American child,” she stated, and it “is up to each and every one of us to stop this madness!”
Drug Makers Busted
Most all of the psychiatric drug companies have come under investigation over the past several years for promoting their drugs for off-label use, especially with children. However, the fines they end up paying are trivial compared to the profits earned through the illegal marketing campaigns.
3rd point:
FDA site, very interesting site.
http://www.fda.gov/AdvisoryCommittees/default.htm
Thanks Felice......
Danny
Ursus:
See also re. another Seroquel-related death, namely that of Denis Manuel Maltez on May 23, 2007, whose final moments -- despite being restraint induced -- were ultimately found to be the result of lethal overmedication:
* Restraint Death at Rainbow Ranch, Florida
viewtopic.php?f=9&t=22075
Twelve-year-old Maltez was being dosed with Seroquel (anti-psychotic), Zyprexa (anti-psychotic), Depakote (anti-seizure, sometimes also used as mood stabilizer), and Clonazepam (tranquilizer). A 2007 autopsy by the Miami-Dade Medical Examiner's office determined that he died of serotonin syndrome.
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