Comments on: Kids on psychotropics: A potentially fatal balancing act http://healthexecnews.com/kids-on-psychotropics-a-potentially-fatal-balancing-act Healthcare Management News and Insights Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:56:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Abraham Ragudos http://healthexecnews.com/kids-on-psychotropics-a-potentially-fatal-balancing-act/comment-page-1#comment-1062 Abraham Ragudos Sat, 27 Feb 2010 06:51:42 +0000 http://healthexecnews.com/?p=1063#comment-1062 Most of the time when kids especially toddlers started getting hyper, most parents especially here in the USA, bring their kids to a " psychiatrist" which in turn prescribed medications to calm down the kids. Parents need to be responsible and at least know a little bit of child psychology to deal with a hyperactive child without resorting to all these prescription drugs. It is just but right that the above parents be charged with murder and hope that this will open the minds of parents and future parents to be more responsible and doctors alike to be more careful in their line of practice. Most of the time when kids especially toddlers started getting hyper, most parents especially here in the USA, bring their kids to a ” psychiatrist” which in turn prescribed medications to calm down the kids. Parents
need to be responsible and at least know a little bit of child psychology to deal with a hyperactive child without resorting to all these prescription drugs. It is just but right that the above parents be charged with murder and hope that this will open the minds of parents and future parents to be more responsible and doctors alike to be more careful in their line of practice.

]]> By: Jim Gottstein http://healthexecnews.com/kids-on-psychotropics-a-potentially-fatal-balancing-act/comment-page-1#comment-1043 Jim Gottstein Fri, 26 Feb 2010 01:20:04 +0000 http://healthexecnews.com/?p=1063#comment-1043 It turns out that most of the prescriptions for psychiatric drugs given to children and youth and submitted to Medicaid is Medicaid Fraud. See, PsychRights' Medicaid Fraud Initiative Against Psychiatric Drugging of Children & Youth at http://psychrights.org/Education/ModelQuiTam/ModelQuiTam.htm One of these whistleblower lawsuits in Alaska against 32 defendants was recently unsealed regarding this illegal practice. See, http://psychrights.org/States/Alaska/Matsutani/Matsutani.htm There are cases percolating in other states in this effort by PsychRights to stop the carnage to America's children and youth caused by the masive psychiatric drugging of children and youth, especially those in foster care. Every psychiatrist who continues the practice is opening him/herself up to financial ruin because each offending prescription carries a minimum penalty of $5,500. It turns out that most of the prescriptions for psychiatric drugs given to children and youth and submitted to Medicaid is Medicaid Fraud. See, PsychRights’ Medicaid Fraud Initiative Against Psychiatric Drugging of Children & Youth at http://psychrights.org/Education/ModelQuiTam/ModelQuiTam.htm

One of these whistleblower lawsuits in Alaska against 32 defendants was recently unsealed regarding this illegal practice. See, http://psychrights.org/States/Alaska/Matsutani/Matsutani.htm

There are cases percolating in other states in this effort by PsychRights to stop the carnage to America’s children and youth caused by the masive psychiatric drugging of children and youth, especially those in foster care.

Every psychiatrist who continues the practice is opening him/herself up to financial ruin because each offending prescription carries a minimum penalty of $5,500.

]]> By: LWN http://healthexecnews.com/kids-on-psychotropics-a-potentially-fatal-balancing-act/comment-page-1#comment-957 LWN Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:48:12 +0000 http://healthexecnews.com/?p=1063#comment-957 Sometimes it's not the parents, it the teachers. I was told I needed to get my daughter checked for ADHD, my husband and I didn't think she had it. We took her in and were told by the Psychologist that she had ADHD. Medication was then prescribed by a Physician, it didn't change her behavior, so a different medication was prescribed and then a different one. We finally said, enough is enough and took her off the meds. Fast forward 4 years, we were again told by her school to have her tested, we did by a different Psychologist who said well, she might have it, it's hard to say. The school didn't accept this opinion and insisted we go to a certain Psychologist (the same one she'd gone to now 5 years earlier). Guess what? He now says the tests indicate she doesn't have ADHD. I'm out a ton of money for all these doctors and tests and even worse she was medicated for nothing! She's actually gifted and has some anxiety problems. The whole thing is pretty scary and I don't know who to listen to anymore. Sometimes it’s not the parents, it the teachers. I was told I needed to get my daughter checked for ADHD, my husband and I didn’t think she had it. We took her in and were told by the Psychologist that she had ADHD. Medication was then prescribed by a Physician, it didn’t change her behavior, so a different medication was prescribed and then a different one. We finally said, enough is enough and took her off the meds. Fast forward 4 years, we were again told by her school to have her tested, we did by a different Psychologist who said well, she might have it, it’s hard to say. The school didn’t accept this opinion and insisted we go to a certain Psychologist (the same one she’d gone to now 5 years earlier). Guess what? He now says the tests indicate she doesn’t have ADHD. I’m out a ton of money for all these doctors and tests and even worse she was medicated for nothing! She’s actually gifted and has some anxiety problems. The whole thing is pretty scary and I don’t know who to listen to anymore.

]]> By: MMAN http://healthexecnews.com/kids-on-psychotropics-a-potentially-fatal-balancing-act/comment-page-1#comment-950 MMAN Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:10:47 +0000 http://healthexecnews.com/?p=1063#comment-950 The ADHD and ADD diagnoses are way overused and has run amuck. It, for the most part, is just a way for physicians to tell us what we already know to get paid for it and for parents to medicate their children so they won't have to deal with them as much. My God people, children are are "HYPER", you just have to deal with them. I am amazed that the physician got off so easily. If the report is correct, this individual should have been found guilty of second degree murder as well. It seems it was just as much the physician's fault as the parents. The ADHD and ADD diagnoses are way overused and has run amuck. It, for the most part, is just a way for physicians to tell us what we already know to get paid for it and for parents to medicate their children so they won’t have to deal with them as much. My God people, children are are “HYPER”, you just have to deal with them. I am amazed that the physician got off so easily. If the report is correct, this individual should have been found guilty of second degree murder as well. It seems it was just as much the physician’s fault as the parents.

]]> By: Debbie http://healthexecnews.com/kids-on-psychotropics-a-potentially-fatal-balancing-act/comment-page-1#comment-947 Debbie Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:00:38 +0000 http://healthexecnews.com/?p=1063#comment-947 This issue is criminal and someone should step up and place a parential control over children and safe guard their lives. We whom have raised children know this task is 24hrs a day 7dys a week and beyond for our live times. We should demand that individuals seeking care for all minor children have a psychiatric evaluation prior to the children being evaluated. Then the child should only be evaluated by a practicing CHILD psychiatrist after evaluation reports shouldbe reviewed by a govering board for recommendations as to when and how to treat our minor child. Being a women of 40 I seen this practice for far to many years go unchecked and lots of small children from as early as the eights have been self medicating with street drugs to support the child adictions that were created from a parent/teacher/social worker etc. LABEL. Stop the slaughter of our children and seek god grace in caring for them and their educations. This issue is criminal and someone should step up and place a parential control over children and safe guard their lives. We whom have raised children know this task is 24hrs a day 7dys a week and beyond for our live times. We should demand that individuals seeking care for all minor children have a psychiatric evaluation prior to the children being evaluated. Then the child should only be evaluated by a practicing CHILD psychiatrist after evaluation reports shouldbe reviewed by a govering board for recommendations as to when and how to treat our minor child. Being a women of 40 I seen this practice for far to many years go unchecked and lots of small children from as early as the eights have been self medicating with street drugs to support the child adictions that were created from a parent/teacher/social worker etc. LABEL. Stop the slaughter of our children and seek god grace in caring for them and their educations.

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