Mom Faces Down SWAT Team and MRAP for Refusing to Give Daughter Deadly Antipsychotic Drug
By Matt Agorist
Suicide, birth defects, heart problems, hostility, violence, aggression, hallucinations, self-harm, delusional thinking, homicidal ideation, and death are just a few of the side effects caused by psychiatric medication.
There have been 150 studies in seventeen countries on antidepressant-induced side effects. There have been 134 drug regulatory agency warnings from eleven countries and the EU warning about the dangerous side effects of antidepressants.
Despite this deadly laundry list of potential reactions to these medications, the use of antidepressants and antipsychotics has skyrocketed by 400% since 1988.
Currently, 11 percent of all Americans 12 years of age and over take antidepressant medication, this is a higher rate than all other countries in the world.
While the skyrocketing use of psychiatric drugs in adults is certainly worrisome, the exponential increase of use in children is downright scary.
The following information is the most accurate and documented data available on psychiatric drug usage in the United States. The information is from IMS Health, a company that provides information, services and technology for the healthcare industry. It is the largest vendor of U.S. physician prescribing data. The following data was taken from IMS Health Vector One National database Year 2013, Extracted April 2014.
The numbers are startling.
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Drug Class: Age Group: Number of
People:
All Psychiatric 0-5 Years 1,080,168
Drugs
Breakdown:
0-1 Years 274,804
2-3 Years 370,778
4-5 Years 500,948
6-12 Years 4,130,340
13-17 Years 3,617,593
Grand Total 0-17 Years 8,389,034 kids on psychiatric drugs
ADHD Drugs 0-5 Years 188,899
Breakdown:
0-1 Years 1,422
2-3 Years 10,413
4-5 Years 181,023
6-12 Years 2,723,126
13-17 Years 1,775,896
Grand Total 0-17 Years 4,404,360 kids on ADHD Drugs
Antidepressants 0-5 Years 110,516
Breakdown:
0-1 Years 26,406
2-3 Years 46,102
4-5 Years 45,822
6-12 Years 686,950
13-17 Years 1,444,422
Grand Total 0-17 Years 2,165,279 kids on antidepressants
Antipsychotics 0-5 Years 27,343
Breakdown:
0-1 Years 654
2-3 Years 3,760
4-5 Years 24,363
6-12 Years 359,882
13-17 Years 490,272
Grand Total 0-17 Years 830,836 kids on antipsychotics
Anti-anxiety 0-5 Years 727,304
Breakdown:
0-1 Years 227,132
2-3 Years 282,759
4-5 Years 247,754
6-12 Years 790,149
3-17 Years 650,273
Grand Total 0-17 Years 2,132,625 kids on anti-anxiety drugs
According to Dr. Allen Frances, author of Saving Normal, one of the reasons we are seeing such a steep incline in American children being prescribed these drugs is that primary care physicians, not psychiatrists, are doling our these drugs like candy. According to Dr. Frances, the primary care doctor is not nearly as qualified to prescribe these drugs, and most of them are doing so based on the information given to them by entirely unqualified pharmaceutical sales reps.
Even more disturbing than the growing trend in psychiatric drug use is the fact that the State will remove children from their parents for refusing to give these dangerous and untested drugs to their kids.
Last week, a Detroit mother, Maryanne Godboldo, was the subject of her 5th appeal by the prosecutor’s office for the ‘crime’ of preventing her child from being forced to take a psychiatric medicine.
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