Posted on 04/22/2009 11:37:45 AM PDT by Wolfie
7-year-old boy prescribed powerful drug before suicide
Troubled boy was being treated by a Broward psychiatrist who is on a list of Florida doctors red-flagged as having ''problematic'' prescribing practices
MARGATE - Weeks before his death, Gabriel Myers, the 7-year-old Broward boy who hanged himself in the shower of his foster home, had been prescribed a powerful mind-altering drug linked by federal regulators to an increased risk of suicide in children.
In all, Gabriel had been prescribed four psychiatric drugs, two or three of which he was taking at the time of his death, said Jack Moss, Broward chief of the state Department of Children & Families.
Moss said he is not sure which medications the boy was taking because Margate police took the foster home's medication log as part of an investigation into Gabriel's death last week.
Three of the psychotropic drugs carry U.S. Food and Drug Administration ''black box'' label warnings for children's safety, the strongest advisory the federal agency issues.
Three of the medications are not approved for use with young children, though they are widely prescribed to youngsters ''off label'' -- meaning doctors can prescribe the drug even if not formally approved for that use.
(Excerpt) Read more at sun-sentinel.com ...
good grief. I’m having a hard time understanding how a 7 year old could even grasp the concept of suicide. :( I can only imagine what those 7 short years held for him.
...Broward
Vyvanse
Lexapro
Zyprexa
Crappy reporting.
will almost guarantee it has nothing to do with the Vyvanse...that particular ADHD med is a huge step forward in the evolution of ADHD drugs..its a much greater treatment than Adderall and/or Ritalin. However the cocktail of assorted mind altering drugs that was prescribed to a 7 year old is WAY uncalled for
Another pill pusher who belongs buried below the jail.
Symbyax
These happy pills are very dangerous.
Sounds like this kid had a tough life. Victim of homosexual rape at an earlier age. That couldn’t have done him a lot of good.
Gross and deadly physician malpractice.
Plus, kids put on these medications have a reason for it. They are already disposed toward negative behavior of some type. That makes it harder to know how to judge the reasons for the outcome.
I remember a few years back and my daughter’s pediatrian said, after a recommendation by the public school, that she had a “touch” of ADHD at the age of 13 or so. At the time, almost my entire family including my wife thought that the ritalin and aderal she was perscribed would be great for her.
I said no. Not going to happen, ever. She’s 20 and in college now, but that’s a whole other story.
Sad, sad story.
This is incredibly sad to hear. We watched a Frontline a couple of years back where it featured parents that had their kids on not just one drug but many drugs. They all did just what the doctors/psychiatrists told them. One poor boy started out being drugged heavily when he was just starting school. They said he was hyperactive. At one time he was on 8 different meds. They showed him as a teenager and he had a permanent uncontrollable head roll. The parents were still drugging him as a teen too.
Here’s part of that show featuring another 4 year old boy being drugged.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSkwp-tDCWg
Why always Florida?
SSRIs kill or mass murder our children.
Here’s another one I just found on YouTube—looks like it’s 13 parts:
Drugging our Children(1 of 13):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd51-ArqJgw&feature=related
Also, the one I posted above from the Frontline show:
The Wholesale Drugging of Children
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSkwp-tDCWg
I’ve heard that about some of these drugs. And apparently, it’s especially true in young people. They strip away the lack of initiative to act before they act on the underlying problem many times. A psychiatric nurse friend of mine explained to me that it’s rarely the drug that causes these tragic suicides; it’s the underlying problem. Of course, that doesn’t mean that we neglect negative effects from the drugs.
“I said no. “
Protector Dad kudos!!!
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