FDA Covers Up Report - Mosholder: 'Antidepressants Double Suicides in Children'

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According to a recent article published in the British Medical Journal, a scientific report by one of its researchers, Dr. Andrew Mosholder, showing that antidepressant drugs double the suicide rate in children taking them, was suppressed by the FDA. Instead of owning up to its mistake and issuing generalized warnings, the agency has launched a criminal investigation to find out which employees leaked Dr. Mosholder's report.

Apart from the FDA's dishonesty in dealing with drug side effects, we should take a serious look at the practice of prescribing drugs to children, which is based on a flawed paradigm of "abnormal" behavior being caused by chemical imbalances in the brain, to be "corrected" by tweaking little understood biological pathways and blocking receptors of neuronal activity. An excellent report on this is the article by Fred A. Baughman Jr., MD, HISTORY OF THE FRAUD OF BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY.

I also want to call your attention to an excellent commentary on this tragic aberration of our 'control society' that is killing and incapacitating hundreds of thousands, both children and adults. Jon Rappoport is mincing no words and he has collected some good data to back up his contention. I recommend Jon's site nomorefakenews.com to anyone willing to wake up to the facts of what is really happening. A word of advice: If you are tempted to dismiss Rappoport's comentary as exaggerated, read right on to the supporting articles. You will come to appreciate that something is awfully wrong here...

Here is the commentary by Jon Rappoport

KILL YOURSELF

AUGUST 11, 2004. It’s war. War against the people. War against children. War against parents. War against families.

CHEMICAL WARFARE.

I’ve been documenting it and screaming about it since this site started.

It’s eating into America. Day by day.

It’s mind control. It’s mind scrambling. It’s chemical destruction of minds.

And most of the naïve American populace is eating it up, wanting it, asking for it, begging for it.

The scum who wage this war are the lowest of the low. The ciphers who assist in the war, who follow the marching orders, are like the “good Germans” who stood by as the little Hitlers took over and started the murders. The faceless bureaucrats who do their part in forwarding the war have their eyes on the federal money that will come to their agencies.

The psychiatrists who are the agents in the war should be wearing black uniforms and boots. They have long ago given up rational thought and have opted for pure control. Let them control each other on a desert island and hack each other to pieces.

And let us not forget the dupes, the actors and other celebs, the pols who front for this operation under the rubric of “share and care” and “good science.”

Let me tell you something. This is the same science that created the eugenics monsters. This is the same science that created the concentration camps. This is the same science that created “mental illness” as a rationale for putting people behind medical bars who disagreed with the power of the State. This is sheer madness perpetrated by those claiming to be able to define sanity and insanity.

This is truly the Century of the Brain. As in, dissect the brain, map it, drug it. This is Clockwork Orange in progress.

Don’t write me and ask what you can do. You can find a good group of decent people who are already organized and you can join them and become part of the struggle. From the halls of Ritalin to the shores of Prozac.

If you’re a shrink who routinely dispenses psychotropic drugs, kill yourself. Really. Kill yourself. Do us all a favor. Overdose on a few of your own drugs and take yourself out. Right now. Don’t delay. Wipe yourself out. Then, look around as you float in the ether and take stock of what you’ve been doing. Maybe you can right your ship then. But meanwhile, kill yourself. Don’t bother to leave a note. Just do it. We don’t need explanations. We know all about it. We know the score. You’re a blight on the human scene. You’re a bug. You’re a scorpion with a few degrees on the wall. Kill yourself.

Here is a release from AHRP:

ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RESEARCH PROTECTION (AHRP) Promoting openness and full disclosure http://www.ahrp.org

The Boston Globe reports that 2/3 of children in state care in Massachusetts are being "treated" for mental illness with psychotropic drugs. Marie Parente, a legislator, and parents call for disclosure of "how many children in state care are being given psychotropic drugs, and for government agencies to take a critical look at the procedures for allowing these medicines to be prescribed." Parente suggested that "the state may be motivated to label children as mentally ill because of the reimbursement checks they receive from the federal government, which compensates Massachusetts for half of all Medicaid expenditures." (below)

If psychiatry is sometimes regarded as "a mirror of society," then America is mindlessly heading in the wrong direction, driven by an unproven biochemical theory for mental illness. Inasmuch as psychiatry lacks scientific diagnostic tools, and no proven cures or safe medicines, the skyrocketing prescribing of harmful psychotropic drugs to America's children can only be classified as child abuse. [1, 2]

Spiraling state Medicaid expenditures for psychotropic drugs are best explained by the drug industry's inordinate influence on psychiatric practice--not these drugs' effectiveness.[3]

Dr. Irwin Savodnik, a psychiatrist and philosopher who teaches at UCLA, has studied the shifting winds in psychiatry in the former Soviet Union. He found, that once psychiatrists were freed from Soviet dictatorship in 1992, they shed the straightjacket of "biological determinism." Today, those psychiatrists are avidly reading Freud in an effort to regain a humanistic perspective of human nature that biological psychiatry had eradicated.

"The great irony," Dr. Savodnik observes, "is that American psychiatry is moving in exactly the opposite direction. In the past 30 years, the overriding ideology of American psychiatry has shifted to a biological model. Psychopharmacology has become its therapeutic backbone." Dr. Savodnik points out, that the problem is that "this model doesn't tolerate free agency. It views psychiatric problems -- moral problems, really -- as medical ones, just as Soviet psychiatry did."

"The Soviet example places in bold relief the deficiencies and fallacies of a truncated view of human life ... as the Soviet system came undone and its psychiatrists freed themselves from the confines of a strangulating ideology, American psychiatrists have embraced uncritically the same narrow vision. But as the Soviet example demonstrates with distressing clarity, a conception of people as little more than biochemical bundles fails to address those aspects of ourselves that make us human."

Soviet psychiatry was used primarily as a political tool to control dissident adults: psychotropic drugs were used to punish political dissidents and others the government deemed to be "troublemakers." American psychiatry is more ambitious than Soviet psychiatry ever was. US psychiatrists collaborate with government agencies by providing a seal of approval for involuntary "treatment" of persons loosely deemed to have a "mental disorder", or to be unruly. US psychiatrists also collaborate in the formulation of state-sponsored mental health policies--such as, "screening for mental illness" -- initiatives which primarily target children. In Illinois, pregnant women are targeted for screening as well. [4] Psychiatrists serve as experts on pharmaceutical industry sponsored "consensus" panels, issuing practice guidelines that promote the extensive use of psychotropic drugs to control behavior-and to enrich the drug industry. [5] For these services, the drug industry provides psychiatry with high financial rewards.

The most expansive (and expensive) US mental health initiatives are sure-bet profit enhancers: Leading psychiatrists, primarily from the University of Texas, backed by funding from Eli Lilly, Johnson & Johnson and 9 other major pharmaceutical companies, formulated the Texas Medication Algorithm Project (TMAP). [5] TMAP is a template for physicians, purporting to improve their prescribing practices for antipsychotics, antidepressants, mood stabilizers, stimulants, anticonvulsants and other psychotropic drugs. TMAP has been endorsed by a dozen or so, state mental health agencies, and by President Bush's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health (NFC). The TMAP algorithm model "is limited to medication strategies," and TMAP recommendations require the use of the most expensive (profit generating) psychotropic drugs.

For depressed children, TMAP recommends SSRI antidepressants as first line treatment "because of supporting efficacy data" from fluoxetine, paroxetine and sertraline. [5] This statement is patently false as the scientific evidence refutes it. [6, 7]

NCF recommends mass screening for hidden mental illness -- with emphasis on school children. [8] This dubious initiative is a radical invasion of privacy, leaving no room for individual choice -- or the freedom for parents to say no, to psychotropic drugs for their children. [4] Such mandatory, government-endorsed screening programs contradict the freedoms guaranteed in a democratic society.

If implemented, this "new freedom" initiative establishes a coercive selection policy that opens the door to discrimination and forced treatment with powerful, psychotropic drugs that have caused more harm to children (and adults) than the conditions for which they were prescribed. Children and adults who will be labeled mentally ill on the basis of unreliable, subjective tests (essentially questionnaires), can expect to lose their autonomy as a brigade of mental health providers intrudes on their lives and takes over their decision-making authority. It is insidious because the built-in full employment incentive for the mental health service industry-including psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers-