Dosed in juvie jail: Drug firms pay state-hired doctors (FL)

[RockaFowler]

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/dosed-in-juvie-jail-drug-firms-pay-state-1491309.html

In Florida's juvenile jails, psychiatrists entrusted with diagnosing and prescribing drugs for wayward children have taken huge speaker fees from drug makers - companies that profit handsomely when doctors put kids on antipsychotic pills.

The psychiatrists were hired by a state juvenile justice system that has plied kids with heavy doses of the powerful medications, and the physicians have prescribed anti­psychotics even before they were approved by federal regulators as safe for children.

One in three of the psychiatrists who have contracted with the state Department of Juvenile Justice in the past five years has taken speaker fees or gifts from companies that make antipsychotic medications, a Palm Beach Post investigation has found.

In two years, the four top paid doctors combined to accept more than $190,000 - all while working for DJJ. Three of the four psychiatrists still are seeing patients in state jails and residential programs.

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1. What a surprise.

I wonder what it will take for the people in this country, including "progressives", to GET what "treatment" and "getting help" is REALLY ab0ut???

Wish I could rec this post to the skies!!

:yourock:

[RockaFowler]

2. This is one of the saddest stories I have read

What will happen to these kids when they get out of the system?? We're creating a bunch of zombies.

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6. What will happen to the kids, indeed. This is the proverbial TIP of the iceberg.

I keep repeating this story, but those who LOVE these drugs just attack...

Many years ago, (like decades!), I was talking with a psychiatrist, and we discussed these drugs. I was anti- even back then. He said that he could tell me the exact time and place that these drugs gained the prominence they have now.

He recounted a convention of psychiatrists, and their main concern was that they were losing business to the psychologists and MSWs. So, they decided to push the drugs... that way, they were in control again.

What I learned later about the pharmcos led me to the conclusion that there was a colusion between the two businesses.

Now, all these years later, the evidence is coming out. Yet, we are so steeped in the lies that few will pay attention to this.

Think of the lives squandered for the pharmcos and immoral shrinks!

[malaise]

3. private prisons, big pharma and corrupt doctors

what a cocktail for youth development. Time for some humanitarian investments at home

[Snoutport]

4. they should be jailed.

[RockaFowler]

5. Won't happen

Look who our Governor is

[SoFlaJet]

9. "Let's Get To Work" was his campaign slogan

all he's done is cut 4500 state jobs and now they are going after people on unemployment trying to catch them for not looking for work. What a horrible governor-how did he ever get elected-what WERE Floridians thinking. How about Allen West-another crackpot-he'll be a 1 termer IMO

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7. Nothing will be done until people speak out.

And what we have seen from poverty --and make no mistake, these are poor kids... nobody gonna make a sound.

[Le Taz Hot]

8. K & R