More Young People Are on Multiple Psychiatric Drugs, Study Finds

DNYUZ ^ | 2/16/24 | Staff

[Roman_War_Criminal]

Growing numbers of children and adolescents are being prescribed multiple psychiatric drugs to take simultaneously, according to a new study in the state of Maryland. The phenomenon is increasing despite warnings that psychotropic drug combinations in young people have not been tested for safety or studied for their impact on the developing brain.

The study, published Friday in JAMA Open Network, looked at the prescribing patterns among patients 17 or younger enrolled in Medicaid in Maryland from 2015 to 2020. In this group, there was a 9.5 percent increase in the prevalence of “polypharmacy,” which the study defined as taking three or more different classes of psychiatric medications, including antidepressants, mood-stabilizing anticonvulsants, sedatives and drugs for A.D.H.D. and anxiety drugs.

The Big Picture The study looked at only one state, but state data have been used in the past to explore this issue, in part because of the relative ease of gathering data from Medicaid, the health insurance program administered by states.

At the same time, some research using nationally weighted samples have revealed the increasing prevalence of polypharmacy among young people. One recent paper drew data from the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey and found that in 2015, 40.7 percent of people aged 2 to 24 in the United States who took a medication for A.D.H.D. also took a second psychiatric drug. That figure had risen from 26 percent in 2006.

[whitney69]

“And let’s not forget the pharmaceutical industry meeting with President Obama, and “helped him write” the Affordable Care Act.”

The companies being involved with the politicial end of business is not unusual. Most major industries are in some manner. And they were smart in how they operated in the vaccine problems set up with covid in that they were made save harmless by not having the FDA certify the use of the drugs for other than emergency use. This saved them from the old let’s sue the gun company when someone shoots a person or sue McDonald’s when some idiot spills hot coffee on themselves saying the coffee was too hot. That’s part of the politics, also.

wy69

[nickcarraway]

That didn’t matter. There is a law from 1985 that vaccine makes can’t be sued.

[whitney69]

But that law was over ridden. Congress stepped in with the Vaccine Act to ensure the injured would receive compensation. It also protects drugmakers from open liability. In 2011, the United States Supreme Court clarified the type of lawsuits the Vaccine Act protects. The Court ruled that the federal law protects drugmakers from design-defect claims as long as the vaccine was properly manufactured and carried adequate warning labels.

When Congress granted drug companies immunity in regular Court with the Vaccine Act, it established the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. The no-fault compensation program is its own “court” created to compensate those who claim to have suffered vaccine side effects caused by vaccines.

Since the program’s creation in the late 1980s, it has paid more than $4 billion to those who said vaccines harmed them. The average payment per injured party from 2013 to 2017 was about $430,000, an average of $229 million annually.

Because the program is not fault-based, people claiming vaccine injuries do not have to prove that the vaccine caused the damage. Instead, they only have to show that the injury occurred within a certain time period, depending on the vaccine, after vaccine administration. And that criteria is covered under the vaccine injury table. But not all vaccines fall under the table.

If your injury and/or condition is not on the Table, or if your injury and/or condition does not meet the Table requirements, you must prove through evidence such as expert witness testimony, medical records, or medical opinion that the vaccine caused the injury and/or condition. And that will constitute a court action defined by use of the act. In other words, a lawsuit based not upon the safety of the vaccine, but upon the time and symptoms of the follow-on illness.

But the covid vaccines would not fall under the table as it was an emergency FDA approval and would not be determined fault as they advertised their possible problems not knowing what they were or even if they existed by getting the emergency administration. Save harmless by being distributed as an emergency drug. So if you prove the drug caused illness within a certain time, and using expert witnesses, you can get a court action for the fund to pay you damages. But it won’t be the drug companies money.

wy69

[TBP]

To make them completely compliant.