Comments on: Are Drugs Being Misused On Foster Kids?

There's Growing Concern That Anti-Psychotic Drugs Are Being Misused On Children In Foster Care

[lostsheep2]

Another aspect of this desired drugging is ismply the compliants of foster parents as to being not in control with the kids..Counties and states then seek a"consulting"(paid via retainer) couch trip or eval center that offers services for the best price....The county then can seek additional Tile IV-D Medicare funding for these labeled kids....The eval centers/quacks,in an effort to demonstrate their god-like powers over the children them knowingly push the favored poison of the week(what ever the drug reps are pushing that week along with a little on the side)And to add insult to injury,the quack can then unknowingly to the patient,make out a product survey report,submit it to the drug company and be rewarded again financially....More incentive for drug use instead of therapy,or that time wasting method of discovering what is the root of the childs problem....And since noting "any" of the advrse effects of any med will show poorly upon the report,and the quack...they will arrogantly dismiss such displays and simply label the child with further problems...ie. CD,ODD,ADD,ADHD,Bi-Polar...Eventually the child will become scitzophrenic from the chemical abuse...No different than the meth haed on the street or the drunk in the bar.....Chemical imbalance occurs with the first administration of the damned drugs.....

daden2 do you or have you ever had children in foster care or are you a foster parent? If your answer is no to these questions then who are you to determin what is going on in the system because you really do not know till you either are there or have had a family member go through it. I know from personal experience that they do over drug the children in foster care and the children also could get more abuse there becuase of the amount of children they have to deal with then a regular family. I was raised in the system and now so are my children and I know that what is being done with the kids is not right or fair to them we are all human and some of us out there are not as bad as what the system wants people to think we are or what they want us to think we are. I hope that we can get someone into office that can do something possitive to the system. We get so many of them running saying they are for our children well where were they when they child protective services took his cousin out of his home placed him into a foster home to where he died of dehydration in their care? Can you tell me this?

[lehi-mom]

I hope the administration recruits Carol Strayhorn to oversee a national investigation - one that will ensure that every state is subjected to the same type of investigation that she has been conducting in Texas.

I know for a fact that similar problems exist in Utah. I can attest to the fact that my deceased half-brother's son was taken into foster care after his surrogate father was abusive towards him. It should have been the father that was removed from the home, not the child.... Anyway, my nephew has been subjected to the same kind of abuse as Colby Holcomb. He was put on several psychiatric drugs, including anti-psychotics, and depending on which "specialist" was seeing him at any given time, and depending on the day, he received one or another psychiatric diagnoses - from "ADHD" to "bi-polar".. you name it. Furthermore, he was mentally, physicallny and sexually abused WHILE IN FOSTER CARE! I have documentation of ALL of this - and yet, he is still in the state's care, now under some other "special" program. Before they're done with him, they will have created a true monster. I can still see him in my mind's eye as an adorable blonde, blue-eyed inquisitive 4 year old.... He went into the system at age 8 and he's still there.... Get someone out here in Utah, please. And, Ms Strayhorn - you are in my book of modern day heros!

[bdurant1]

Now why did Mrs. Strayhorn and CBS fail to mention Bush's TMAPS, which has been reported to be a profit sharing agreement that was originated in Texas, and picked up by other states, as G.W. was governor of Texas. Is the threat of losing advertising dollar and pharma contributions too threatening? And why were the failed over-sight agencies not exposed? The GOA report after Grassley's investigation, clearly shows corruption as the industries have infiltrated every level of gov. What about the fact that Bush Sr. (along with Ken Lay) served on the board of directors of Eli Lilley manufacturer of Zyprexia, the most expensive, most harmful, and most prescribed drug. The same abuse happens in Texas nursing homes and DHS allows it.

[lostsheep2]

I have also read through and found a few concerned Texans that get a tad bent that CBS did not disclose that Strayhorn is running for office....Uh yeah so what...? Elections are going on all over the country,it's that time of year again...Duh !!!!
It's nice to see a really concerned politician,and for the record a google or dogpile search on Strayhorn will show she simply did not recently decide to use this tactic for office...She has been on top of this for YEARS!!!
Seems like some from Texas should be more concerned with those running for office that do not care about kids....No more Kids,No more Future..

[lostsheep2]

For those interested there is a post here from one of the higher ups in a site called mind freedom,Sadly the belief that the effects of long term drug use(profitable prescription that is)Being of only a recent discovery is in correct.Many have known for decades what can happen....Any one care to guess why Meth was first used for...? To induce psychosis in normal people so that the shrinks could attempt to study schizophrenia...and that is where they started off with the use of words such as "A group of psychotic disorders"....Hmm no new thing under the sun,just repackaged and re-released to the public... Check out these websites also for more scientific proof not more psycho-bable theory.
www.ahrp.org www.breggin.com DECADES people decades!!!

[gryph_on]

We can validate your concerns about the overuse of drugs. We have been taking trouble teenage boys for 20 years. Most have been kicked out of group homes and residential programs. Most have horrible drug cocktails and clumsily walk about in a stupor. They cannot learn new behavior or anything else in this condition. Bipolar is the diagnosis most favored and most wrong these days. We'd rather have the behaviors than the effects of these drugs.

[lostsheep2]

So you are ADHD Metal_Head2...??? Who told you this...? A pill pushing shrink...? Or was it the clever television advertising that takes every day situations of life,then adds some BS about chemical imbalances,and there you have it...One finds themselves saying to themselves..."Hey thats me".....I need those drugs....By the way what do you take..? Meth..err I mean Ritilan..?
Ever see those cute little tinker toy molecular models of Meth and Ritilan side by side...?
Ever dig into what "other" things were discovered during the rat and mice trials that do not make it on the warning labels....? If your medication is marked as an adverse side effect"Emotional Lablity" Do you realize that is shrink code for SUICIDE...? How about chemical induced tumors of the lungs,or under the skin..Doctors(real ones that is) call them TUMORS,likened to cancer...You know abnormal cell growth....????? Do some research while your brain still functions...Use a dictionary if you don't understand the meaning of a word....Please.

[itmaiden-2009]

My own son as a 3 year old wrongfully taken by the state of Florida was put on 15 different psychotropic drugs in 3 years. This resulted in Grand Mal Seizures, brain damage, loss of fine motor skills, and the child displayed the symptoms of overdose toxicity. These drugs if even considered "safe" or "necessary" were not administered properly. The child in the home of his paternal grandmother was a victim of her lies so that she could keep him drugged and not chase after a normal healthy boy child. She had threatened to harm my child with these drugs when he was an infant. The State of Florida assisted her in her deliberate harm of my son. I guess they got some government money from the NIH and NIMH for it as well as some pharmaceutical "Kickbacks".

[daden2]

This story pisses me off to no end.

It is not, and should not, be considered a criticism of the vast number of great people who volunteer their homes to provide foster care to kids who don't have their own -- those people represent the best of what is American.

The responsibility and the blame for this lies squarely and only on the shoulders of the shrinks involved and the drug companies that pay their way.

THOSE are the guys who should be jailed or, worse, put on a cocktail of their 20 mind crippling drugs.

When the hell are we going to stop ***-footing around and start prosecuting the shrinks and drug companies causing this kind of thing as the child-abusing, money grubbing psychopathic criminals they are.

[daden2]

This story pisses me off to no end.

It is not, and should not, be considered a criticism of the vast number of great people who volunteer their homes to provide foster care to kids who don't have their own -- those people represent the best of what is American.

The responsibility and the blame for this lies squarely and only on the shoulders of the shrinks involved and the drug companies that pay their way.

THOSE are the guys who should be jailed or, worse, put on a cocktail of their 20 mind crippling drugs.

When the hell are we going to stop ***-footing around and start prosecuting the shrinks and drug companies causing this kind of thing as the child-abusing, money grubbing psychopathic criminals they are.

[padraic10441]

I hope the major stockholders of Johnson & Johnson, Eli Lilly, AstraZeneca and Bristol-Myers are reading about the way their medications are being used to abuse and torment children in the state of Texas (and other states). Matthew 18:5-7 can apply to those who torment children for the sake of profit, as well as those who lead children into sin. Wake up stockholders ! Write to your boards and complain about this injustice. If the Pharma reps didnt oversell this medication then docs and providers wouldnt use it as much off label. Better yet shareholders, sell off. You don't want blood money.

[researcher25]

Thank you for exposing this horrific situation. You ask what happened to the system? Another poster had a good point -- foster parents can't do their job.
Why? It's all about the money.

Foster parents are trying to help these kids and the psychiatric and drug industry force them to kill these kids with drugs. It's disgusting and someone where along the line we have to take a stand and actually DO something about it. The key point is DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. I have attended hearings and signed petitions. More needs to be done by all.

[researcher25]

Thank you for exposing this horrific situation. You ask what happened to the system? Another poster had a good point -- foster parents can't do their job.
Why? It's all about the money.

Foster parents are trying to help these kids and the psychiatric and drug industry force them to kill these kids with drugs. It's disgusting and someone where along the line we have to take a stand and actually DO something about it. The key point is DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. I have attended hearings and signed petitions. More needs to be done by all.

[maainchi]

There is no scientific test for mental illness and psaychiatry does do not cure anyone.

I know of a little girl who was literally stolen from her mother by CPS in Illinois and who was kept from her mother for three years, all the while putting her into a foster home of lesbians from which she ran away when she was 4 years old! When she was found, they forced her to go back to that home and encouraged the two women to push for adopting this little girl.

This little girl fought for 3 years to go back to her mother, while being forced onto psychiatric drugs, including injected Thorazine(identified by psychiatrists as a chemical straightjacket, for adults). Her mother was trapped into stating that she had neglected her daughter, because, she was told, even if not true, she could get her daughter back sooner. She later won on appeal -- in Illinois, too, parents have no chance against the Department of Children and Family Services run courts -- and finally got her child back.

While in State custody, she was known, while on the powerful, mind-altering psychiatric drugs, to sit and bang her head against a metal bench for hours -- until she had a huge purple knot on her forehead. She was also sexually abused by a 14 year old boy who was assigned to the same facility.

Follow the money trail -- states that have large adoption ratios to the number of children taken into custody received large sums from the Federal Government.

This is criminal treatment of children.

[mamatad]

For those who are not aware of how ADHD has been foisted on a largely unsuspecting population, including health professionals, a short explanation is in order. ADHD is listed in the diagnostic and statistics manual, (DSM-IV, being the current version of the bible of psychiatry) as a disease.

This was achieved by a small group of physicians, key opinion leaders (KOLs) and putative leaders in their respective fields voting by the method of a show of hands, a lumped together set of subjective symptomologies into a mental disorder of the brain, and.... Eureka! Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder came into being.

It's an anomalous fact that many KOLs in psychiatry have close pecuniary ties to the corporate pharmaceutical industry -- an entity that has gained multi-billions of profits from the sales of treatments (read dangerous chemical entity psychoactive and antidepressant drugs) used routinely for ADHD, and has been proved to have a pervasive influence and impact on all aspects of society

[lostsheep2]

OK will all those who hold fast to the "THEORY" of chemical imbalance,and pumping kids with poison please supply us with your sources of information that,as you claim,Show Scientific Evidence.....???? Of course lets remind the readers what the definition of true science is..
Something that can be repeatedly shown to occur,ie. Water freezes at 32 degress....
What so many have bought into is simply another "religion",and one that comes with a high price tag....CHILDRENS LIVES AND HEALTH.
Maybe all of you who buy into this mental health fabled crisis should pop some of those "safe effective poisons" that you are so willing to be given to kids....Any Takers?

[metal_head2]

Being someone with attention deficit disorder, I can tell you that medication DOES work. However, there are reasons for the dramatic increase in medicating kids. Some of it is legitimate, while the rest is due to the fact that their are lazy parents who can't deal with misbehavior.

[metal_head2]

Isn't it funny how people who oppose abortion always circumvent this issue? That's because these people don't care about children. They only care about furthering their twisted theocratic agenda.

[linda183]

This story is very inacurate. You are doing a big disservice to foster parents. You should do a story that promotes the good people in foster care. We are upper middle class people that have had many foster children. We are finalizing the adoption of our "unadoptable" child. It wasn't until we found the right diagnosis and medication that he could function. He is not in any way sedated, but lovable, introspective and(now) a very kind person. Children in foster care have usually been thru unimaginable abuse. They also share the same genes with their abusive, sometimes mentally ill birth parents. If a positive light could be shown on the great kids that come out of foster care maybe more good people would be foster parents. There are unloved children in our contry that need help. It is the best thing we ever di. We now want to continue to adopt more children.