MORE ON THE COMBINED BIG PHARMA-SHRINKS ASSAULT ON AMERICAN CHILDREN OR : THE HEINOUS CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY, CHILDREN IN PARTICULAR, BY BIG PHARMA AND BY THE SHRINKS CONTINUE UNABATED IN THE USA AND WORLDWIDE

by Justice Lover

The very existence of Psychiatry as a "Medical Specialty" when it is obvious that it is no more than a very dangerous quackery, which has no scientific basis, is by itself an outrageous world scandal !

The fact that it has been legalised makes this scandal worse, and much more so as it has been authorised by law to impose its dangerous torture-"treatments" arbitrarily under the false psychiatric dogma-pretext of "mental illness" on innocent people.

It is a well known fact that the shrinks have been heavily bribed by Big Pharma for prescribing its psychiatric poisons to their victim-patients so as to keep Big Pharma colossal profits on the rise all the time. This is not merely intolerable corruption of horrendous proportions, it is a series of crimes against humanity for which both shrinks and Big Pharma heads must be held accountable !

Worst of all is that in recent times the victimisation by Big Pharma- shrinks of young children ,as well as elderly people in nursing homes, keeps increasing by the day, and very little is done to stop such heinous crimes against humanity !

The following AHRP report has more details of such currently perpetrated heinous crimes against humanity as follows :

ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RESEARCH PROTECTION
Promoting Openness, Full Disclosure, and Accountability
http://www.ahrp.org/ and http://ahrp.blogspot.com/

FYI

Massachusetts has embarked on a mandatory mental health screening policy targeting disadvantaged, poor children whose medical care is paid by Medicaid.The Boston Globe reports (below):

"As of Monday, annual checkups for the nearly half a million Massachusetts children on Medicaid will carry a new requirement: Doctors must offer simple questionnaires to detect warning signs of possible mental health problems,from autism in toddlers to depression in teens. The checklists vary by age but ask questions about children's behavior - whether they are spending more time alone, seeming to have less fun, having trouble sleeping..."

Indeed, the vagueness of questions used in screening tools betrays the fact that there is no scientifically valid mental screening standard--nor, for that matter, is there a scientific, measurable tool for diagnosing children's mental health. It's all subjective and given to bias--often, as has been documented, by industry-financed bias. [1]http://ahrp.blogspot.com/2007/05/psychiatrists-retained-by-drug-industry.html

The new requirement applies to the 460,000 children covered by Massachusetts Medicaid from birth to age 21.The policy institutionalizes two-tier medicine, setting disadvantaged children into a class apart. People on Medicaid have no resources for making informed choices or for obtaining second opinions--these children are trapped into a system whereby Bad Medicine is shielded from accountability.Mental screening is not in the best interest of children; it is but subterfuge for increasing psychotropic drug sales.As pointed out by Dr. John Abramson, a clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School and author of Overdosed America, "What happens is that there's a very quick translation of mental health symptoms into drug treatment."

Beyond the issue of mislabeling healthy but rambunctious children as mentally ill, the highly toxic treatments being widely prescribed are producing irreversible, measurable harm. One would have expected cautionary approach after the untimely death at age 4 of Rebecca Riley who was "diagnosed" as bipolar at the age of 2 1/2 by a Tufts trained child psychiatrist, and prescribed a toxic combination of psychotropic drugs.http://ahrp.blogspot.com/2007/09/bipolar-soars-as-diagnosis-for-young.html

In adults the hazardous effects of the prescribed drugs are shown to cut life span by 25 years! http://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2006/apr/05_0180.htm.Even a few prominent psychiatrists now acknowledge that children are being experimented upon with psychotropic drugs:

"We are using these medications and don't know how they work, if they work,or at what cost. It amounts to a huge experiment with the lives of American kids, and what it tells us is that we've got to do something other than we're doing now." John March MD, Prof. child /Adolescent Psychiatry, Dukehttp://www.ahrp.org/cms/content/view/399/31/"

"We don't know the first thing about safety and efficacy of these drugs even by themselves in these young ages, let alone when they are mixed together...We have to realize that we are risking treating children who could turn into obese diabetics with involuntary movements." Neuroscientist Steven Hyman MD, Former Director, NIMH http://www.boston.com/yourlife/health/diseases/articles/2007/06/17/backlash_on_bipolar_diagnoses_in_children

Indeed, the scope, the magnitude and the nature of irreversible physiological harm produced by antipsychotic drugs in children as they disrupt normal function of major body systems and brain function has not yet been fully documented. However, a recent report by Christoph Correll, M.D.(Hillside Hospital), and Harold Carlson, M.D. (Stony Brook), in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (2006) warns clinicians:

"children and adolescents appear to be at higher risk than adults for antipsychotic induced hyperprolactinemia [abnormally high levels of prolactin in the blood], weight gain, metabolic abnormalities and elevated serum prolactin....Weight gain is a leading pathway to the metabolic syndrome and diabetes mellitus."

Shame on a society that allows its children's best interest to be undermined by industry-influenced government mental health policies.

Parents are being misled about the risks posed by psychotropic drugs by those who stand to gain from increased sale.Shame on a society that blindly follows the dictates of financially compromised medical professionals.See: New York Times report documenting the money trail between pharmaceutical companies and psychiatrists whose prescribing correlated with the dollar amount received from psychotropic drug manufacturers. [1]http://ahrp.blogspot.com/2007/05/psychiatrists-retained-by-drug-industry.html

Massachusetts citizens have a right to know how much money psychiatrists and pediatricians in their state have received from Big Pharma.Most especially, citizens have a right to know how much pharmaceutical money, influential Harvard-affiliated Mass General Hospital child psychiatrists have received.The Globe Editorial (below) adds insult to injury. It was written by someone ignorant about the body of compelling evidence documenting the harm caused to children who are prescribed psychotropic drugs. [3]

The editorial makes bald unsubstantiated claims that smack of pharmaceutical industry PR copy:" Early detection of bipolar disorder, autism, or depression can lead to effective treatment that will avoid costly periods of institutionalization if the condition is left unattended." Where is the evidence for that false claim? In fact, "bipolar disorder" in children is highly controversial, its legitimacy unrecognized anywhere in the world other than in the US.

The real hook of the Massachusetts policy is to provide financial incentive to "diagnose" children: "With the diagnosis doors and services can open to you."Children--in particular those on Medicaid--are being turned into a captive consumer drug market without regard for the harmful consequences.

Stay Tuned for an AHRP 2008 initiative.In the meantime, Write a letter to the Boston Globe editor:http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/write/

References:

1. THE NEW YORK TIMES May 10, 2007 Psychiatrists, Children and DrugIndustry's Role By GARDINER HARRIS, BENEDICT CAREY and JANET ROBERTShttp://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/10/health/10psyche.html

2. THE NEW YORK TIMES June 6, 2006 Use of Antipsychotics by the Young RoseFivefold By BENEDICT CAREYhttp://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/06/health/06psych.html

3. Texas: 60% of foster care children are being drugged:http://ahrp.blogspot.com/2007/03/chemical-sledgehammer-children-in.html http://ahrp.blogspot.com/2007/11/children-need-protection.htmlFlorida: St. Petersburg Times The 'atypical' dilemma Skyrocketing numbers of kids are prescribed powerful antipsychotic drugs. Is it safe? Nobody knows. ROBERT FARLEY, July 29, 2007http://www.sptimes.com/2007/07/29/news_pf/Worldandnation/The__atypical__dilemm.shtmlhttp://ahrp.blogspot.com/2007/08/skyrocketing-antipsychotic-drug-use-in.htmlNew York: DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE December 9, 2007 Potent Pills: More foster kids getting mood-altering drugs by Gary Craighttp://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071209/NEWS01/71206023/1002/NEWS

Contact: Vera Hassner Sharav
veracare@ahrp.org 212-595-8974

(Emphasis by Justice Lover)