Posted by metric on March 24, 2009, at 10:32:36
In reply to Re: Drugs and Psychiatrists, posted by garnet71 on February 5, 2009, at 22:04:04
> I felt sickened by this article...2 years olds diagnosed with bipolar and given pyscho scripts:
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> "Take the case of Dr. Joseph L. Biederman, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and chief of pediatric psychopharmacology at Harvard's Massachusetts General Hospital. Thanks largely to him, children as young as two years old are now being diagnosed with bipolar disorder and treated with a cocktail of powerful drugs, many of which were not approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for that purpose and none of which were approved for children below ten years of age."
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> In my view, these parents should be reviewed for child abuse for offering their children as guinea pigs for mental experimentation. There is a big difference there with a child who has a terminal illness and a 2 year old with symptoms that can be attributed to most 2 year olds at any given time. I had a very difficult ADHD child too, but just because he caused me 18 years of stress doesn't give me the right to give him a possible chemical labotany.
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> How can you not give your child a chance to grow and develop before stifling what you may think is an undesirable personality?
I couldn't agree more. Let the punishment fit the crime. In the case of Biederman, his sentence shall include, but not be limited to, weekly injections of haloperidol decanoate with aggressive doses of oral risperidone force-fed daily as an adjunct. Any refusal or less-than-enthusiastic attitude toward pharmacotherapy by patient shall be interpreted as "breakthrough symptoms" of his underlying mental pathology, and require prompt dosage escalation of all medications. Mental status examinations will be performed anually by his former patients, who will determine when, or if, he is fit for release from the psychiatric ward, where he will remain in captivity until such time.
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