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.
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.
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
SSRIs kill or mass murder our children.
Myers said the boy's pediatrician had discontinued all psychotropic drugs while Gabriel lived with him, and the boy did well, earning A's and B's at the Hollywood Christian Academy.
''We did not have any issues with him having tantrums,'' Myers said. ``He would get upset, like little boys do.''
I have to wonder why the boy did not stay with the Uncle. At least after the fact of the boy’s death he seems to care for the boy.
After the time with the Uncle the boy goes to Ohio and stays with the grandfather who seems to think that he is over medicated. How does this happen in Ohio? He can’t be under the care of the Florida quack in Ohio can he?
All of these Child Protective Services horror stories always seem to have the child being shuffled from home to home with little regard for the welfare of the child. (I wonder hoe this government agency ever got that name).
Ping since Savage talks about this kind of thing quite a bit. Do any of you know the name of the psychologist Savage has on the show fairly often?
I’ll parrot what others have said here. You don’t take meds like this without a reason. I was taking a similar medication for chronic moderate to severe pain for seven years. I wasn’t depressed or suicidal to start with. That made all the difference when I weaned myself off the stuff with a change in therapy. Guess what. I didn’t get suicidal when I came off of it. Do you suppose it was because I wasn’t suicidal when I went on it?
Yes, you grasp the difference. The kid was screwed up before he went on the meds. The drugs didn’t cure him, but I’d have to be convinced that they caused his problem. He died. Poor kid. God rest him.
What worries me is the amount of young women of child bearing age that are prescribed these drugs without a flick of an eyelash. I wonder what will happen to these women’s babies if these women get pregnant while taking the drugs? Are we going to have a generation of psychotics walking around in a few years, products of mind altering drugs in the womb?
This is so horrible. I am so against children being given ANY psychoactive meds. They aren’t very good for anyone else, either.