Comments on: Florida Medicaid, Antipsychotics And Small Children

By: Rate Doctor

Rate Doctor — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:26:00 +0000

It is clearly a mistake to be over-medicating kids that otherwise are showing normal child behaviors. When does a hyper-active kid needs medication. When I was growing up, I was hyper-active and did not need medication. Children do not need drugs for ADHD! That is normally growing up. Our forefathers have had ADHD and they did just fine before Big Pharma came along.

By: Jo

Jo — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:21:33 +0000

This has been going on in the state of Alabama for at LEAST 10 years that I am personally aware of - I had a stepchild that took all of the above since around the age of 6 (he is 17 now) and Medicaid paid for it……

By: Grant

Grant — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:59:13 +0000

Disgusting…just when you thought having an adult zombie nation was bad enough, now FL is allowing us to have baby zombies. Seriously, that’s what this is.

By: November

November — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 03:03:45 +0000

She says it appropriate. Do you guys believe her. She is not even licensed to practice in the state of Florida nor her Cheif of Psychiatry, Dr. Ravij Tandon. They are a bunch of quacks, imposing on the minds of little children. May God curse them till their death. They put together a panel of doctors, all are probably receiving kickbacks from the drugging industry but the only way you are going to find out is by subpoenaed their financials like they did in congress. Then you will see these doctors don’t give a hoot about the health of your children. It’s all about how many kickbacks the state receives in psychiatric drugging, doctors get huge bonuses for prescribing and schools get huge bonuses when you vaccinate your kids with poisonus vaccines and if you really knew what was in those vaccinations you would “never” give it to your kids.

By: libertas falsus

libertas falsus — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 07:30:46 +0000

You see, the idea is to take down America so that the goal of a one world government can be achieved, but before this can happen, there can’t be an America as we know it to be, because Americans as they are now wouldn’t allow it. What better way to take down a nation and bend it to your will than to pretty much chemically lobotomize the next generation. What many people don’t know is that many, if not all antidepressants and anti psychotic meds have high amounts of fluoride in them which not only is proven to take away motivation and make the person more manageable and docile, but can effectively reduce the IQ by up to about twenty points depending on dosage and duration and how early in the brains development the attack is begun. Research it. If you haven’t already figured it out, its all by design. Although profit is a bonus, it isn’t the main objective. If you have trouble finding leads on what I’m telling you, I’ll send you all kinds of info that is nearly beyond belief. I’m still in awe of this and other things that have been going on for generations. I’m not a fool or one of those tin foil hat wearing conspiracy theorist idiots. I’ve done hours upon hours of research and compared information from many different sources and historical references and it all checks out. Let me know what you think. I’m not easily offended in the least bit, so please pull no punches if you disagree, but try to stay civil as I am not one to hurl insults simply because I disagree with someone. I’m always open to any and all information and ideas, not that I accept it all, but please share what you think honestly. I would love to be wrong, but its very unlikely. I appreciate the way you have so passionately pursued the issue of drugging children. I only hope that the right people are alerted before much more damage is done.

By: Katy

Katy — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 17:10:11 +0000

It is overwhelming and awful that we are allowing the use of such drugs on children, especially young ones. As adults, and parents, our children trust us to help them. By drugging them, We consign these children to mind altering dependency, for how long? Our children are the future of our society and civilization.

With drugs we are not truly helping them. Drugs may cover current symptoms, but what do they SOLVE? Drugs are truly a dead end, and drugs kill, slowly or quickly.

The use of psychotropic drugs makes a lot of people and companies a LOT of money. Did we have such volume of these kinds of problems with children 50, 100, 150 years ago? NO! So what’s changed? Diet, food production, sugar, dyes, preservatives in food, lack of exercise, television, computers, video games the list goes on. So why aren’t doctors, and other health care givers, looking for OTHER solutions, simpler solutions to behavior problems in children such as diet, allergies, etc? Our children are the future, and we, as well as they, deserve better help from our supposed experts than this.

By: Ola Cooney

Ola Cooney — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 04:02:17 +0000

My granddaughter (11) has been diagnosed with ADD/ADHD. She despartely needs her meds, without them she cannot function. Before she was diagnosed she not only was a whirling dervish, but destructive, harmful both to herself and others, with no ability to sit still or focus on anyting for no more than a minute. She has also been diagnosed with being slightly autistic. She was put on abilify when she was 6yrs old with disastarous results. Despite a family history of diabetes and her uncle dying at the age of 20 from heart disease, she was still prescribed it. The abilify left her with 60lb weight gain within a 1 month period, with no change in her eating habits, pre-diabetic, and a heart murmmur. She was taken off the drug 4 months later. Her current pyschiatrist is livid that the drug was prescribed to her with the previous psychiatrist knowing her family history. Alas, there is no recourse for her because she was prescribed the drug while on the medicaid program. She is currently within the weight range for age and is still losing weight. It took a long time to get her weight under control, not because of her eating habits, (she is a vegetarian), but because the weight was a side effect of the medication. She has had to put up with the taunting of both kids and grown-ups, because of her weight gain. She has problems with socializing and trust; partially because of the emotional issues dealing with weight gain. Please if let the public aware of the side effects these drugs do to our kids.

By: Parents

Parents — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 01:31:31 +0000

Wow..tons of comments and not one has blamed the parents….come on isn’t this the parents fault…they dump there kids off at day care at 6am and pick them up at 6pm, grab MicyDs on the way home and then sit there over sized rears on the sofa to watch American Idol while the kids play video games or surf porn….doesn’t anybody think about personal responsibility…they cant make you take meds for ADHD

By: It's not ADHD

It's not ADHD — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 01:23:23 +0000

The problem is the Doctors not the drug companies…First and foremost no drug company has the ability to RX a drug of any kind…the MDs/NPs/PAs are the ones RXing the meds….Second Doctors tend to use what works…the atypicals work much better than the typicals and have FAR less side effects…and last the kids do not have ADHD, they are Bipolar…the Doctor list ADHD as the reason for the drug because 1) it tends to fit the symptoms 2) pts ‘understand’ ADHD 3) Pts and MDs are scared of a BP label 4) Most MDs that are treating kids have ZERO training in mental health and could not make a clinical differentiation between BP and ADHD even if they had a gun to there head.

And for those of you that don’t understand the science or reasons why the MDs use atypicals….would you rather have your child on Amphetamines (think Meth)???

Bottom Line. Forget the label (ADHD, BP), does the drug help the child function better??

By: Wow

Wow — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:48:48 +0000

Wow, I went away for a couple months. Thought I would try it again and see if it has gotten any better. I was afraid I would have to search far and wide for an article regarding kids and psych drugs. Lucky for me they are still in abundance!!

Yeah, f’ the vaccines too. And physicals.