That would be manslaughter.
Yet another drug to treat ADHD (which is basically the diagnosis that a boy is behaving like a boy; and today’s society will not tolerate that).
I can just imagine how many times a day this happens when you see what actually works behind the pharmacy counter in the chain stores.
How sad. One of my daughters takes Clonidine for a sleep disorder.
Sensory processing refers to the way the nervous system receives messages from the senses and turns them into responses. For those with Sensory Processing Disorder, sensory information goes into the brain but does not get organized into appropriate responses. Those with SPD perceive and/or respond to sensory information differently than most other people. Unlike people who have impaired sight or hearing, those with Sensory Processing Disorder do detect the sensory information; however, the sensory information gets “mixed up” in their brain and therefore the responses are inappropriate in the context in which they find themselves.
Sensory Processing Disorder or SPD (originally called Sensory Integration Dysfunction) is a neurological disorder in which the sensory information that the individual perceives results in abnormal responses. A more formal definition is: SPD is a neurophysiologic condition in which sensory input either from the environment or from one’s body is poorly detected, modulated, or interpreted and/or to which atypical responses are observed. Pioneering occupational therapist and psychologist A. Jean Ayres, Ph.D., likened SPD to a neurological “traffic jam” that prevents certain parts of the brain from receiving the information needed to interpret sensory information correctly.
Shame, I can’t even begin to imagine how the pharmacist could have been so far off. Going to cost him big time, but not as much as it cost the poor parents. So sad all the way around.
“Drugging our child definitely wasn’t something we wanted to do,”
Am I missing something or have we gotten to government mandated prescriptions now?
Approximately 8 out of 10 medical errors occurs in the pharmaceutical order-entry-fill process.
Always check, ask questions, and question the answers. Or find a place that uses pharmacy robotics.
Here's a long but very detailed account of a similar computer error which almost killed a kid at UCSF.
“a drug his parents didn’t want him to take to begin with.”
Ummm..don’t give him the drug then
Yep, that's the issue. We all know there would be no errors if we just had enough regulations.
Sounds like a made-up disease to give government school teachers an excuse to drug boys into zombiehood and the "ethical" pharmaceutical industry another revenue stream.
WebMD indicates that Clonidine is used to treat (primarily) hypertension and ^MAY^ treat ADD. [I find that ADD is acronym for Adult Deficiency to Discipline.]
In what reality does an 8YO have hypertension? The DR should be held to account for using a “blood-pressure” medicine for treating a local diagnosis of ADD.
ADD is a “catch-all” for any DR that can’t define why a youngster is not able to able to SIT-DOWN and SHUT-UP.
Hell, my mom threw us out the door and told us to come back when we were tired. When we did come back near dark, she would put us in bed and said, “Quit yer wailin’ child. Go to sleep”
Nice to know it treats " sensory processing disorders". I've been given the stuff (.1 MG)for high blood pressure.
Lazy “parents” that thought they should have a zombie for a child. Medical professionals should be ashamed of their willingness to create these zombies. There should be a criminal investigation into these drugging’s of children to turn them into zombies.
Almost happened to me. Get my prescription drugs by mail, one day I saw the pills were a different shape and color, checked them on line and they were DOUBLE what I was supposed to take.
Broke each in half to use even though the label said “Take ONE Tablet daily”.
WHAT???!!!
In my experience it's used to control high blood pressure...over 165 systolic.