Mercola: Drug Firms Have Used Dangerous Tactics to Drive Sales to Treat Kids with Psychotropic Drugs
Mercola.com – May 7, 2014 By Dr. Joseph Mercola There is big money to be made in prescribing medications to kids – especially when those…
Mercola.com – May 7, 2014 By Dr. Joseph Mercola There is big money to be made in prescribing medications to kids – especially when those…
CCHR St. Louis—September 9, 2013 The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) carried this report on August 11th, “U.S. Probes Use of Antipsychotic Drugs on Children,” sub-titled…
MPN- July 29, 2013 by Kathy Rucke Hours after Texas Child Protective Services removed 5-year-old Tristen from the care of his mother and placed him…
A Texas health agency has begun investigating more than three dozen healthcare providers who prescribed large quantities of powerful psychiatric drugs — some to children — after a U.S. senator raised questions about the medications.
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission has referred three providers to the attorney general for criminal prosecution, state Health Commissioner Thomas Suehs wrote to Sen. Charles Grassley last month. Some have been excluded from the Texas Medicaid program, including one convicted in a criminal case and another accused of inappropriate billing and coding of hours related to patient services.
The most vulnerable among us are the littlest victims. Young children, torn from their birth families through various, often unspeakable tragedies. These children end up in state supervised foster care and too often are passed from hand to hand, house to house. There were approximately 662,000 children in foster care in the United States in 2010.
Now there is a Government Accounting Office (GAO) report confirming that foster children in five states — Florida, Massachusetts, Michigan, Oregon and Texas — are receiving shocking amounts of psychiatric drugs. In the words of ABC News, they are “being prescribed psychiatric medications at doses higher than the maximum levels approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in these five states alone. And hundreds of foster children received five or more psychiatric drugs at the same time despite absolutely no evidence supporting the simultaneous use or safety of this number of psychiatric drugs taken together.” The ABC News report shows one 7-year-old holding a bag filled with 13 psychiatric medications that she had taken.