The off label use of Risperdal extends to seniors in nursing home, as it's an easy way to tranquilize "difficult" patients. The corruption is endemic and big cash settlements (like the $2.2 billion payout) are little more than the cost of doing business.

It's abhorrent that the most vulnerable among us, both old and young, are often victims of such practices, when all that's needed is compassion and real, honest, help.

Sorry if this is a double post. I accidentally reloaded the page.

Sarah it can....be discovered at two..I haven't given my child any meds ..as I haven't met anyone where they do any good..my boy is 15 years old now..you need some help with him big time Generation Rescue might be able to help you or folks on here might...so far as I have found the Pharma drugs don't work...

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Angus

I HAVE A STORY JUST LIKE ONE OF YOU, AND I WAS WONDERING WHAT IS GABA? AND DOES THOSE THINGS REALLY CALM THEM? MY TWO YEAR OLD IS VERY AGGRESSIVE AND POSSESSIVE, HE WAS TOLD HE NEEDED Risperdal RIGHT AT TWO YEARS, AND ALSO HE WAS AUTISTIC, BUT I WAS DETERMINED NOT TO MEDICATE HIM, BUT THE ANGER AND AGGRESSION HE HAS IS GETTING WORSE, I NEED ANSWERS, I NEED HELP, IM A YOUNG MOTHER, 26, AND I HAVE AN OLDER DAUGHTER, SO I KNOW HIS BEHAVIOR ISNT NORMAL, BUT I NEED TO KNOW WHAT TO DO. PLEASE PLEASE, I FEEL LIKE IM LOOSING IT,SOMETHING HAS TO MAKE HIM REASON, SOMETHING HAS TO MAKE HIM STOP AND THINK "I CANT HURT MOMMY" AND "WHEN MOM FUSSES IT MEANS STOP!" I SWEAR IF I WOULDNT PUT HIM TO BED HE WOULD NEVER STOP!!!!ITS LIKE HE NEVER GETS TIRED!!!!!CANT SOMEONE HELP ME, I DONT FEEL AS IF AUTISIM COULD BE DETECTED AT AN AGE OF 2, CAN IT?????

Goedemorgen. God Morgen. Good morning! I can't believe the T-shirts are already in Sweden. I just sent them on Monday! I guess the US Postal Service is pretty good after all. We'll really value your opinions and expertise here, Milco. Get working on the submission for me! Thanks.

KIM

http://autismsciencefoundation.wordpress.com/2009/05/27/cbs-news-poo-poos-fda-approved-autism-intervention/#comments

And here we have Ms. Singer, who crawled out from under her rock, to of course advocate for the use of the drugs since drugging her own daughter is what she believes is right. Alison Singer is a disgrace.

When Nicholas was almost 2 1/2 years old, we took him to a local Neurologist who was apparently “the dr to see” in a big hospital in NJ. You know, the kind of doctor who is on Autism Boards and “really knows his stuff” You know, the one with the waiting list which is months long because everyone just has to get their kid in to see him. Before our appointment, I already knew Nicholas had autism. I was already beginning to put the biomed pieces together in my head. We had already seen a HUGE difference in Nicholas from just the addition of the Omega Fish Oil and Vitamin E. So, imagine a naive version of me (oh yeah, I was naive back then) sitting there asking this doctor why fish oils are making my child talk and babble when without it he was almost completely silent after him telling me that ABA was our only hope if we did not want to institutionalize our son and try again. So, imagine my shock when this doctor practically yelled at me about giving my child omega fish oil and then telling me that he was not giving me an Rx for ABA until I brought my son back to see him after he was medicated with risperdal. (the school requested a report or Rx for ABA so they could get Nicholas services - that was the primary reason for the appointment)

Hearing a neurologist confirm your thoughts that your child was in fact autistic was enough for one afternoon. Having such an individual tell you to put your child in an institution and try again was one of the most cruel things anyone has ever said to me in my life. Having him answer my curious question on fish oil in the manner in which he did was unprofessional and telling all at the same time. But, in the moment, I didn’t know that his response to the fish oil was telling at all. What I heard was autism and institution and risperdal. I collapsed in the parking lot shortly thereafter from a panic attack.

I went home and started looking up Risperdal. In less than five minutes, I read that this was medication for schizophrenic adults and that it was recently approved for children five years and above. In less than five minutes, I knew there was no way I was putting my son on a drug like this - my son’s behavior did not warrant it - and thinking back to the appointment I then realized that this doctor did nothing but provoke my son from the second we walked into his office - and at times, my son acted better than I thought he would there. (I truly understand some children need this medication and do not judge any parents for choosing this route for their child if they have tried everything in their power first.)

My son, as I said, was 2 1/2 years old. When I made the appointment, they told me that they had plenty of toys there so I would not need to bring any. We get there and are in the waiting room…. no toys. We are brought into the doctors office… again, no toys. My son was just starting to play with his toy phone at home and he saw a phone on the doctors desk and wanted to play with it. This doctor proceeded to taunt my child with his phone and then deny him access to play with it. And then he tells me my son is agitated and needs medication. This doctor did not choose to see my son pick up the receiver putting it to his ear and babbling like he was having a conversation. I have to wonder how different a neurotypical child would have acted in that situation.

My son was hyper as if he was driven by a motor that never shut off. “He needs medication!” exclaims the doctor, “He will not learn without it!” In my many beginning hours of research into my son’s issues, I found a list of things to try to calm him down a bit and I started trying them. Epsom Salt baths - check. Evening Primrose Oil - check. Gaba - check. L-theanine - check. I added epsom salt baths - and wow — the difference was amazing. Then I added Evening Primrose Oil - I saw less hyper. I added gaba, but knowing that would take a month or so to kick in, I also added L-Theanine - and that worked very well. Less hyper, less anxiety - and suddenly I was angry. Angry that they would rather my son be medicated — with a drug that wasn’t even approved for a 2 year old. Angry that this doctor couldn’t say - hey, magnesium is calming - why don’t you try some of that either orally or epsom salt baths and see if that works to calm him down some?? Unfortunately, we all know the answer to that question by now.

I felt like this doctor was on a misson:
1. Diagnose
2. Break down parents into believing there is nothing that can be done to help their child
3. Medicate

I still have that Rx for risperdal. I keep it as a reminder of what I’m working towards - a child who does not need to depend on anything in life — including Rx drugs like this. I’m so glad Sharyl Attkisson wrote about this. So very glad. Thank you, Sharyl. You are one of my heroes. Thank you for having the backbone to stand up for the truth!

I'm so impressed with Sharyl Attkisson for the coverage she's done on vaccine risks and now this. And thank you, Kim, for being of the same mind and in the same league.

Antipsychotics are the gift that keep on giving-- the same mechanism which causes gynecomastia can also lead to breast cancer:
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/447031

I just mentioned to someone the other week how curious it is that J&J profits from Risperdal as well as Desitin. Wasn't the baby products/housewares industry freaking out and in big trouble circa 1986 because of the numbers of women putting off having children to seek higher education and advance their careers? Isn't there, like, a whole book about it? (thank you, Susan Faludi).

But just add a few more shots to the schedule and triple children's ethylmercury exposure and a few generations' would-be career moms are now trapped perpetually diapering further generations of children who may never be independent, and consuming housewares and baby products interminably. Profits from diapers and rash ointment had to have gone through the roof because of the epidemic and a market for deadly atypicals was born.

This is definitely a company that carries human beings from cradle to grave. Does J&J manufacture coffins or run cremation franchises by any chance?

I considered talking this myself a decade and a half ago when we first had concerns about the oldest and I myself went in for an evaluation. It was recommended by the Pshrink. I was told about side effects and I remember her mentioning breasts in men. Well I'm not a man so I guess that doesn't matter--not the embarrassment part anyway. But I considered all of the other possible side effects, and the fact that it hadn't been in use very long. Weight gain was another side effect. I said to my Pshrink "I don't know that I want to trade one socially unacceptable side effect (weight gain) for another (inability to make casual conversation). I sure am glad that I didn’t take the drug. I regret that I ever took Prozac and Paxil. All they seemed to do for me was make me grind my teeth.

The doctor that I have now understands that I will never take any prescription drug for anything, EVER. (Well okay, maybe, but only if it is something that is well recognized as safe after having been in widespread use for DECADES.) I will die first, and I mean that.

I was watching Matt Lauer with Nancy-the-pharma-whore Snyderman yesterday. On the morning news, in between pharma commercials. They were talking about the increase in the number of whooping cough cases.

As it happens, everyone in my family--- including all four of my fully-vaccinated-for-whooping-cough children--- had whooping cough about five or six years ago. It sucked. The Doctor couldn't tell us what it was. First I was told it was flu, then asthma, then COPD. Then I was asked if I was just trying to get out of going to work although I am and was at the time a stay at home mom.

Nancy said that a lot of the people who got whooping cough were unvaccinated. If Matt thought to ask her about the others, the ones who WERE fully vaccinated but got whooping cough anyway, he was told not
to do it.

Nancy implied it if she didn't outright say it: "When your two year old gets whooping cough, it's the fault of all of those crazy people who have the gall to question vaccines."

That Daniel Hauser story really has me steamed too. The county is forcing him to undergo chelation instead of the treatments his parents want to use. If anyone else on the planet is disturbed by the fact that his wishes regarding his own medical treatment don't matter one whit, you sure aren't hearing about it on the telly. (In between pharma commercials.) In fact, the media has reported this story, over and over again, as a mother who was up on charges of 'denial of parental rights'. Then they show dad pleading with her to come home. What they NEVER tell you is that, in this instance, the county sued and has custody of the child. They did this so that they could force medical treatment. And so the 'parent' in 'parental rights' in this case isn't either one of the parents at all. It's Brown county family services.

I don’t even call the nightly news the nightly news, anymore. I just call it the nightly medicine show.