Parents, Students and TeenScreen

For parents and students who need a better understanding of TeenScreen I would recommend the following site.

http://nototeenscreen.blogspot.com/2009/07/shocking-facts.html

Psychiatry-Say ‘Yes’ to Drugs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDgBSSSVtrU&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fnototeenscreen%2Eblogspot%2Ecom%2F2009%2F07%2Fpoliticians%2Dunder%2Dobama%2Dfighting%2Dto%2Ehtml&feature=player_embedded

Politicians Working to Stop the Forced Drugging of Children

Leaving no child undrugged…  the goal of psychiatry, Big Pharma and the FDA.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Q9A12634U&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fnototeenscreen%2Eblogspot%2Ecom%2F2009%2F07%2Fpoliticians%2Dunder%2Dobama%2Dfighting%2Dto%2Ehtml&feature=player_embedded

Generation RX

A new movie about the psychiatric, Big Pharma and FDA trilogy of evil is about to hit the screens.  Check out the trailer here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xehHwkPpevk

The light of day is starting to shine on these nasty creatures.

The Myth of the Chemical Cure

From: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8138893.stm

‘The myth of the chemical cure’

VIEWPOINT
Dr Joanna Moncrieff
Mental health expert

Taking a pill to treat depression is widely believed to work by reversing a chemical imbalance.

Medication is a mainstay of mental health therapy
But in this week’s Scrubbing Up health column, Dr Joanna Moncrieff, of the department of mental health sciences at University College London, says they actually put people into “drug-induced states”.

If you’ve seen a doctor about emotional problems some time over the past 20 years, you may have been told that you had a chemical imbalance, and that you needed tablets to correct it.
It’s not just doctors that think this way, either.

Magazines, newspapers, patients’ organisations and internet sites have all publicised the idea that conditions like depression, anxiety, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder can be treated by drugs that help to rectify an underlying brain problem.

People with schizophrenia and other conditions are frequently told that they need to take psychiatric medication for the rest of their lives to stabilise their brain chemicals, just like a diabetic needs to take insulin.

The trouble is there is little justification for this view of psychiatric drugs.

Altered states
First, although ideas like the serotonin theory of depression have been widely publicised, scientific research has not detected any reliable abnormalities of the serotonin system in people who are depressed.
Second, it is often said the fact that drug treatment “works” proves there’s an underlying biological deficiency.

Psychoactive drugs make people feel different

But there is another explanation for how psychiatric drugs affect people with emotional problems.

It is frequently overlooked that drugs used in psychiatry are psychoactive drugs, like alcohol and cannabis.

Psychoactive drugs make people feel different; they put people into an altered mental and physical state.

They affect everyone, regardless of whether they have a mental disorder or not.

Therefore, an alternative way of understanding how psychiatric drugs affect people is to look at the psychoactive effects they produce.

Drugs referred to as antipsychotics, for example, dampen down thoughts and emotions, which may be helpful in someone with psychosis.

Drugs like Valium produce a state of relaxation and a pleasant drowsiness, which may reduce anxiety and agitation.
Drugs labelled as “anti-depressants” come from many different chemical classes and produce a variety of effects.

Prior to the 1950s, the drugs that were used for mental health problems were thought of as psychoactive drugs, which produced mainly sedative effects.

‘Informed choice’
Views about psychiatric drugs changed over the course of the 1950s and 1960s.

They gradually came to be seen as being specific treatments for specific diseases, or “magic bullets”, and their psychoactive effects were forgotten.
However, this transformation was not based on any compelling evidence.
In my view it remains more plausible that they “work” by producing drug-induced states which suppress or mask emotional problems.

If we gave people a clearer picture drug treatment might not always be so appealing

This doesn’t mean psychiatric drugs can’t be useful, sometimes.
But, people need to be aware of what they do and the sorts of effects they produce.
At the moment people are being encouraged to believe that taking a pill will make them feel better by reversing some defective brain process.
That sounds good. If your brain is not functioning properly, and a drug can make it work better, then it makes sense to take the pill.
If, on the other hand, we gave people a clearer picture, drug treatment might not always be so appealing.
If you told people that we have no idea what is going on in their brain, but that they could take a drug that would make them feel different and might help to suppress their thoughts and feelings, then many people might choose to avoid taking drugs if they could.
On the other hand, people who are severely disturbed or distressed might welcome these effects, at least for a time.
People need to make up their own minds about whether taking psychoactive drugs is a useful way to manage emotional problems.
To do this responsibly, however, doctors and patients need much more information about the nature of psychiatric drugs and the effects they produce.

Nutty Psychiatrists Round-Up

Psychiatrist Sam Castellani from Nashville, Tennessee has been arrested and charged with rape. A female patient (age unknown) claimed that she performed sexual acts with Castellani in exchange for medication.

And over in Topeka Kansas, another psychiatrist Douglas Geenens faces the loss of his license for prescribing drugs to ‘patients’ whom he hadn’t seen for months and even years… oh and of course, for an ‘inappropriate relationship’ with a female patient.

In Redwood City Psychiatrist William Ayres is coming to the end of his trial on nine counts of molesting young children he was supposed to be ‘treating’.

Then at the end of a long, hard day they pull up their pants and write all the invoices.

Gabriel Myers

For those who have requested more information on the story of young Gabriel Myers who was killed by Big Pharma’s indifference and psychiatric complicity I would recommend a website set up specifically to handle this particular case.

http://gabrielmyers.wordpress.com

Psychiatric Drug Rules Ignored

Miami Herald
Study: Florida’s psych drug rules for foster kids ignored
A new state study found that child-welfare doctors and case workers aren’t following the rules when it comes to the drugging of 6- and 7-year-olds in state care.
By Marc Caputo

TALLAHASSEE — Child-welfare doctors and case managers routinely failed to complete legally required treatment plans, share information or properly document the prescribing of powerful psychiatric drugs for children, according to a new state study of 6- and 7-year-olds medicated in state care.



One of the 268 children was Gabriel Myers. The troubled 7-year-old, medicated with an adult anti-depressant known to cause suicides in children, hanged himself in April in his Margate foster home.

But the state study, which documents how many times caseworkers and doctors followed child-welfare rules and laws, shows that it would be a mistake to blame Gabriel’s death solely on the drug, Symbyax, said Florida’s drug czar, William Janes.

”It wasn’t just the medications,” said Janes, who sits on a committee investigating ways to prevent cases like Gabriel’s. “It was the system and his world. His environment just collapsed on him. And there was no one there to really put their arms around him.”

The Department of Children and Families study, presented Monday to the committee, indicates that a number of rules and laws on medication for children in state care weren’t followed for all 6- and 7-year-olds:

• In 86 percent of cases, the prescribing physician didn’t complete what’s known as a Psychotherapeutic Medication Treatment Plan, which helps case workers, legal guardians, judges and other physicians determine a child’s mental well being.

• In 75 percent of the cases, the case workers did not provide physicians with pertinent medical information about the child.

• In 76 percent of the cases, the case worker didn’t provide parents with information about the psychotropic drugs their kids were being prescribed. Nor did the case worker help arrange transportation or phone conversations between the doctor and the child’s guardian.

• In 58 percent of the cases, the case manager didn’t attempt to speak with or meet the parent or guardian prior to seeking a court order to medicate the child.

• In 89 percent of the cases where parental consent wasn’t obtained to medicate children, case managers failed to inform state lawyers that they were seeking a court order to administer the medication.

The DCF study also found numerous record-keeping and data discrepancies in the state’s child-tracking system, Florida Safe Families Network. The study follows a similar review last month concerning the drugging of children in state care under the age of 6. DCF is now studying other age groups.

Dr. R. Scott Benson, former head of the American Psychiatric Association, pointed out the difficulties physicians have in meeting all the state record-keeping requirements.

Benson, who doesn’t treat children in state care, said he found it ”horribly troubling” that physicians weren’t given all the pertinent medical information about the children prior to making a prescription. But, he said, he wasn’t surprised because of the complicated nature of child-welfare cases and clients.

The committee probing the child-welfare system plans to issue a report by Aug. 20.

It is only touching on Gabriel’s case, which is the subject of a Margate police investigation. Some doctors and case workers — all of whom work for privatized agencies under contract with the state — might face sanctions, depending on what the report finds.

The DCF study, as well as Gabriel’s case, show the troubles with 2005 legislation designed to curb the prescribing of mental-health drugs to kids in state care.

Among its requirements, the law mandates more information sharing, parental involvement and second-party review of doctors’ prescriptions for the youngest children.

One committee member, Dr. Rajiv Tandon, pushed for a simple electronic record system that physicians and case workers can share.

He said the system also needs to be ”tweaked” to clarify who’s in charge and who needs to do what.

”There’s only so much we can do. There’s no substitute for common sense,” Tandon said. “There’s no substitute for people doing the right thing. Sadly, in this case, the right thing wasn’t done by some people.”

Hospitals Closing Psychiatric Departments

News out of Boston Massachusetts is that hospitals are closing down their psychiatric departments because they are not profitable. Translation: people are not prepared to pay for psychiatric services.
One of the side benefits of the generally rather grim economic times (that are about to become much worse) is that quasi professions such as psychiatry will very quickly be consigned to history’s dustbin along with other junk ‘sciences’.
Psychiatrists are claiming that it is all as a result of a bias against mental health care. Quite the opposite is true. It is a bias against psychiatry.
I assume that this cleansing of the public health system will be replicated across the US, and indeed the world.
If it takes a depression to get rid of the psychiatric pushers for Big Pharma then a depression is not all bad.