And if we fail tomorrow, let us all witness — and never forget — the
incredible brutality being forced on Ray, over his wishes and the
wishes
of his family, even though he has been living peacefully out in
the
community in his own home.
…
Kifuji diagnosed Rebecca as bipolar with attention deficit disorder when she was
2½. Kifuji prescribed the powerful blood pressure medication Clonidine and
anti-seizure drug Depakote. …
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TV Stations spread the good news!class=671574323-07042009> …
Top psychiatrists are dropping like flies these days. …
The group identifies itself as the largest grassroots organization in the U.S.
for people with mental illness and their families. The group came under scrutiny
in 1999, when the magazine Mother Jones reported that 18 drug companies gave the
group $11.7 million from 1996 to mid-1999. …
Some prominent psychiatrists have come under fire recently for thousands in
unreported income from drugmakers. Critics have said that these influential
doctor-researchers led the way toward off-label use of some powerful psychiatric
drugs–and perhaps their recommendations weren’t objective judgments but biased
by their financial ties to pharma. …
The latest data confirm that there are “no long-term differences between
children who were continuously medicated and those who were never medicated,”
the Washington Post reports, citing the
Journal of the American Academy of Child and
Adolescent Psychiatry. Meanwhile, the number of scrips for ADHD meds grew
to 39.5 million last year from 28.3 million in 2004. …
None of the atypicals have been approved by the FDA for use on
preschoolers, and Florida Medicaid guidelines recommend they be used on this age
group “only in the most extraordinary of circumstances.” But those warnings
didn’t slow a tsunami of atypical prescribing. Between 2001 and 2004, the number
of kids under 6 taking atypicals increased 300 percent. For all youths under 19,
the increase was about 250 percent. …
according to Biederman’s testimony, he prepared the presentation himself.
Another presentation promised that a study of J&J’s psychiatric drug
Concerta would “extend … positive findings” on the drug to adolescents. …
The results compelled AstraZeneca to look deeper into the data
for more positives. What they got were negatives. On a rating scale, patients in
these same four studies showed a greater reduction in behavioral symptoms when
taking Haldol instead of Seroquel, according to the analysis. …