{"id":52,"date":"2008-03-02T09:17:20","date_gmt":"2008-03-02T16:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/?p=52"},"modified":"2024-07-14T05:43:54","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T10:43:54","slug":"new-york-court-rules-against-coercive-drugging-of-teen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/02\/new-york-court-rules-against-coercive-drugging-of-teen\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Court Rules Against Coercive Drugging of Teen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fuels Demands for Prohibiting Funds to Child Psychiatric Services and Deadly Drugs<\/span><\/p>\n

SAINT LOUIS: A New York appeals court decision last week found that psychiatrists were wrong for force-feeding potentially lethal psychiatric drugs to a 14-year-old girl against her parents\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 objections. The case has fueled calls for insurance coverage and governments to cease funding child psychiatric services. The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) that for nearly 40 years has investigated psychotropic drug risks in the pediatric population is calling for a hard-line approach to this abuse of children. Millions of children are prescribed drugs that more than 50 international drug regulatory agency warnings in recent years say can cause suicide, life-threatening diabetes, heart attacks and death. CCHR\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s co-founder, eminent professor of psychiatry emeritus, Thomas Szasz says, \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cLabeling a child as mentally ill is stigmatization, not diagnosis. Giving a child a psychiatric drug is poisoning, not treatment.\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d The renowned author added, \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cThe child psychiatrist is one of the most dangerous enemies\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d of children and \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cmust be abolished.\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d (Click here to watch a speech by Dr. Szasz<\/font><\/a>.)
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The group says the case brought against Payne Whitney Hospital in New York and two psychiatrists exemplifies psychiatry\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s arrogant belief that it can override parents\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 right to make decisions in the best interest of their children. A court hearing, which the parents were not a party to and in which a psychiatrist was the only witness, allowed him to administer psychiatric drugs to the girl, identified as Christine W., despite the parents\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 repeated objections. The Supreme Court\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s Appellate Division determined this was \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cconstitutionally defective and fatally flawed.\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d Ms. Jan Eastgate, CCHR\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s international president, said, \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cPsychiatry thinks it can override the legal rights of parents and convince courts that it has the right to force kids onto drugs that can cause serious harm and even death. Putting children in the hands of psychiatrists is a life or death gamble and, given the growing number of fatalities, a roll of the dice not to be taken lightly. Government and private insurance should not be funding this assault on children\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s lives.\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d
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There is at least a 30% profit margin for a psychiatric bed occupied by a child, compared to 20% for an adult and rakes in well over $1 billion a year in inpatient revenues. More than $184 million in federal grants is also given for pediatric \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cmental health\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d services while $29 million is spent annually to fund treatment of \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cbehavioral and learning disorders\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d through Special Education. CCHR says the cost to children\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s lives is chilling:<\/p>\n

\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a7\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0<\/span>More than 8 million American children are prescribed psychiatric drugs documented to cause suicide, psychosis, hallucinations, diabetes, heart attacks, strokes and death.<\/p>\n

\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a7\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0<\/span>Each year an estimated 1,155 children and adolescents die or commit suicide due to psychiatric drugs.<\/p>\n

\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a7\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>An estimated 1,200 under 18-year-olds attempt suicide, while about 280 become homicidal when taking these drugs.<\/p>\n

\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a7\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>In 2005 in the state of Florida alone, $680,000,000 of Medicaid funds was expended on \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cbehavioral health drugs\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d for foster care children. This included more than 19,000 children prescribed antipsychotic drugs, of which 4,556 were 5 years of age or younger. In all, 59,697 Medicaid children were put on psychotropic drugs in 2005, a 528% increase over 9,500 in 2000.<\/p>\n

Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a mental health watchdog group established by the Church of Scientology, has helped secure legislative protections against children being forced onto psychiatric drugs. But, Ms. Eastgate says, \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cThere needs to be a tougher approach by governments and insurance companies in clamping down on funding for pediatric psychiatric services, given the propensity for psychiatrists to rely upon potentially lethal drugs.\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fuels Demands for Prohibiting Funds to Child Psychiatric Services and Deadly Drugs SAINT LOUIS: A New York appeals court decision last week found that psychiatrists were wrong for force-feeding potentially lethal psychiatric drugs to a 14-year-old girl against her parents\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-muddy-river-newsletter","category-press-releases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NMpC-Q","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}