{"id":92,"date":"2008-12-13T15:54:01","date_gmt":"2008-12-13T22:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/?p=92"},"modified":"2024-07-14T05:43:50","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T10:43:50","slug":"drugging-children-with-unapproved-psychiatric-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/13\/drugging-children-with-unapproved-psychiatric-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Drugging children with unapproved psychiatric drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Psychiatry is facing unprecedented exposure  for drugging children with unapproved psychotropic drugs, and for ties to drug  companies.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 In less than a week we&#8217;ve seen coverage in the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic\">Wall Street Journal, New York  Times, USA Today, Boston Globe<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"> and  <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic\">LA Times<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">, among others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>From the top down,  exposure of psychiatry over the last six months goes like this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><font size=\"3\">Former head of National Institutes of Health and leading mental  health talk show host, Fred K. Goodwin, was exposed for not reporting  pharmaceutical money to listeners or producers.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 He promoted such things as the  diagnosis of bipolar disorder in children, which undoubtedly contributed to the  continued rise in dangerous and unproven antipsychotic drugs for this  use.<\/font><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><font size=\"3\">The infamous Dr. Joe Biederman, Harvard researcher and noted  promoter of the Bipolar diagnosis in children was exposed for taking far more  money from drug companies than he reported to the University. Yesterday the New  York Times reported that internal documents and e-mails between a drug company  and Biederman showed him pressuring the drug company to open a research center  to &#8220;promote the commercial goals of [drug company name deleted].&#8221; While  Biederman continues to be under investigation, he is credited for helping to  fuel the<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> 40 fold increase in the  bipolar diagnosis for kids<\/span>, which of course was accompanied by exploding  prescriptions for dangerous, off-label drugs.<\/font><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><font size=\"3\">Then there was the exposure of Karen D. Wagner at the  University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, who according to US Senator  Charles Grassley, failed to disclose tens of thousands of dollars in drug  company money <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">while writing guidelines  for the drugging of children.<\/span>\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Wagner wrote a chapter of psychiatry&#8217;s  textbook on psychopharmacology dealing with the treatment of children during  this time as well.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 <\/font><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><font size=\"3\">Of course, the editors of the textbook would have gone out of  their way to guard against conflicts of interest, right?\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s what you would  think&#8230;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\">Psychopharmacology textbook editors Charles Nemeroff and Alan  Schatzburg were <span style=\"font-style: italic\">both <\/span>exposed for failing  to reveal substantial funding from drug companies.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\">This isn&#8217;t a complete  list by any means, but I think you get the picture.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Psychiatry, from top to  bottom, is riddled with conflict of interest allegations, and drug companies  denying the off-label promotion of their drugs while industry &#8220;thought leaders&#8221;  continue to be found with their hands in the pharmaceutical &#8220;cookie  jar.&#8221;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\">There is legislation both federally and in the state of Texas to  require drug companies to disclose their payments to doctors so that these  marketing schemes can be known about up front. Write your own state legislators  to introduce and pass legislation to audit psychiatric outcomes,\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0prosecute  psychiatric fraud and abuse, and eliminate psychiatrists and psychiatric funding  from our schools and communities.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psychiatry is facing unprecedented exposure for drugging children with unapproved psychotropic drugs, and for ties to drug companies.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 In less than a week we&#8217;ve seen coverage in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, USA Today, Boston Globe and LA &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/13\/drugging-children-with-unapproved-psychiatric-drugs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-92","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-1u","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","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=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}