Children Antipsychotics_Douglas Kennedy--FOX News TRANSCRIPT
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FOX News is to be congratulated for airing a hard hitting report by Douglas
Kennedy who pulled no punches by shedding light on the FDA official who is
most responsible for giving the green light that opened the floodgates for
the prescribing of increasingly toxic psychotropic drugs for children.
Mostly healthy American children are being forced to ingest antipsychotic
drugs that alter their brain chemistry, interfere with normal development,
and induce (iatrogenic) chronic diseases such as, diabetes, and metabolic
syndrome.
An FDA advisory panel earlier in the week criticized the FDA's failure to
protect children from these toxic drugs.
Featured in the news report was Philadelphia attorney, Stephen Sheller
representing children harmed by antipsychotics, including boys who grew
breasts after ingesting Risperdal, hit the nail on the head: "the reason
they [antipsychotics] are prescribed so much is that there are a very good
profit center for the drug industry."
How many millions of previously healthy American children will be rendered
disabled by FDA-approved toxic drugs?
.
Below is a transcript, but you can still catch the FOX evening News report
clip at http://tinyurl.com/69k9dz
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FNC 11/20/2008 5:57:15 PM:
...jon: should children be prescribed pills that treat conditions that they
do not even have?
how about drugs that have already killed kids nationwide?
Adding to the argument of the overmedication of america's children, an issue
that our guest has been falling, douglas kennedy, the first national
reporter to link anti-depressant medications to childhood suicide and
violence. that prompted action.
>> for years, they ignored the side effects of anti- depressants, and now,
it seems they're doing the same thing with antipsychotics, drugs that some
say are seriously hurting our nation's youth.
One young woman on youtube describing what happened to her on the drug
resperdal.
>> it affects my moods, makes me depressed. >>
She is one of the many videographers complaining about the side effects of
anti- psychotic drugs, including seroquel and zyprexa, drugs whose usage
have increased fivefold in the last years, despite there is no scientific
benefit to using them.
>> this is a huge industry. >>
Now, an independent group of doctors and scientists convened by the food and
drug industry itself agrees, criticizing them for being prescribed to
children.
Stephen Sheller an attorney in Philadelphia: <<the FDA is too heavily
influenced by the drug industry.>>
>> the reason they are prescribed so much is that there are a very good
profit center for the drug industry.
anytime you come into a doctor's office and say, ""my kid is a problem in
school"" or ""he is acting out,"" they come up with the diagnoses of bipolar
or attention deficit disorder or other vague diseases. Sheller represents
patients damaged by anti-psychotic drugs, including these boys who had to
have mastectomies because they grow breasts on rispserdol.
He and others point the finger directly at Thomas Laughren, director of the
Division of Psychiatry Products whom has been turning a blind eye to the
side effects.
>> He has been accused of major conflicts of interest, ghostwriting
articles, supporting new diagnoses to use these drugs, and he is not
protecting the public health. he is protecting the profit of the drug
industry....>>
The FDA said Dr. Laughren was unavailable for comment
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