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Drugging Of British School Children
Soars As Warnings Raised On Deadly Long Term Effects
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NEW REALITY
Monday, April 7, 2008
The pharmaceutical
zombiefication
of children younger than six years of age across England is not slowing,
it's speeding up. If there are enough disruptive, violent episodes at
schools, insurance companies will eventually demand that all children
be tested for ADHD
and dosed before they can attend school. The beginnings of programs to
mass dose British children with drugs can be seen in
this story from the UK Guardian :
New evidence has shown children's lives are being put at risk by a
surge in the use of controversial tranquillising drugs which are being
prescribed to control their behaviour, the Guardian has learned.
The anti-psychotic drugs are being given to youngsters under the age
of six even though the drugs have no licence for use in children except
in certain schizophrenia cases, the report says.
The number of children on the drugs has doubled since the early 1990s
as the UK begins to follow a trend started in the US, but critics say
they are a "chemical cosh" that could cause premature death.
Although the drugs are not licensed for children, doctors can prescribe
them on their own responsibility.
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The drugs are not licensed for children. Who cares what the doctor thinks?
Unlicensed use of drugs is supposed to be illegal isn't it? Oh right,
those other, non-patentable unlicensed drugs.
The increase follows a huge rise in the use of the drugs in children
in the US. Yet nobody knows how the drugs affect a growing child's body
or what may happen in the long term.
The increase has come at a time when former psychiatric best-sellers
Prozac and its class of anti-depressants have gone out of patent. Wong
says children on anti-psychotic medication are more likely to die earlier
- something which may not be caused by the drug but which gives cause
for concern. "The mortality rate is much higher. It could be some underlying
problem of the brain. It doesn't show the drug is causing any deaths,
but there is this inequality."
David Healy,
professor of psychological medicine at Cardiff University, says the
drugs may cause heart, circulation and breathing problems. "There is
a real question over whether the drugs can kill for a number of reasons.
One is that all anti-psychotics act on [the brain chemical] dopamine."
He said dopamine was known to have a role in cardiovascular regulation.
A number of children in the US, given stimulants - which also act on
the dopamine system - after being diagnosed with ADHD
(attention deficit hyperactivity disorder), have suddenly died, said
Healy.
He was asked by lawyers in the US to give an opinion on a child who
was diagnosed when she was a baby first with ADHD,
then depression and finally bipolar disorder (manic depression). "Having
spent 75% of her life on one of these drugs, she dropped dead at the
age of two," he said.
Has anyone ever seen a baby that doesn't have symptoms of ADHD?
The world is a confusing, sometimes shocking place. Everything is new
and interesting to them.
The drug watchdog, the Medicines and Healthcare
products Regulatory Authority, is concerned about the use of such drugs
without evidence to prove they are safe in children....
Yes, and what are they going to do about it?
Nothing.
....unless the manufacturers conduct trials, its hands are tied.
The drug makers have to conduct trials to show how dangerous their own product
is before the regulatory body can act to stop the drug's distribution to
children.
WTF?
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