A Little Girl Killed By Psycho Drugs

Elaine Meinel Supkis

Throwing out older psychiatry, modern doctors use nearly only chemical remedies. Coupled with often ineffective 'therapies', drugging children is spreading as adults try to control their behavior. This recently led to the death of a very small girl who was drugged much of her short life.

From the Associated Press

By DENISE LAVOIE,

Dispensing drugs to children diagnosed with mood or behavior problems is "the easiest thing to do, but it's not always the best thing to do," said Dr. Jon McClellan, medical director of the Child Study and Treatment Center in Lakewood, Wash. "At some level, I would hope that you'd also be teaching kids ways to control their behavior."

According to the medical examiner, Rebecca died of a combination of Clonidine, a blood pressure medication Rebecca had been prescribed for ADHD; Depakote, an antiseizure and mood-stabilizing drug prescribed for the little girl's bipolar disorder; a cough suppressant; and an antihistamine. The amount of Clonidine alone in Rebecca's system was enough to be fatal, the medical examiner said.

The two brand-name prescription drugs are approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use in adults only, though doctors can legally prescribe them to youngsters and do so frequently.

They hand out drugs like candy these days. Adults can monitor themselves and decide if they wish to have the effects of various psychological drugs. My own husband was brain damaged at work and years ago, when he used to have convulsions, he used so powerful tranquilizers to sedate him and spent much of his first year, asleep, while his brain began to heal.

Today, he is feeling better but still takes drugs. But not the heavy sedatives: they were temporary. As an adult, he could decide for himself, if he needed to cut the pain and rest. Even so, I had to watch over him and give him advice and feed-back so he wouldn't get addicted or fall into a coma. I had to insure he was able to eat and do other things.

Several times, he had to be put in the hospital because these efforts failed.

Children are not merely smaller versions of adults, their chemistry is quite different. Because of the radical changes in our harmones and other chemical/biological processes, children and older adults are radically different from sexually active humans. Namely, from puberty to menopause, the body is subjected to quite a different regime. And the brain is the main target of many of these biological changes!

So medicines that affect the brain are altered by these biological changes which evolved along with sex. Dr. Freud noticed the strong connection of sex to mental stability. He tried to penetrate its secrets.

The cultural mileu he lived in limited his ability to define this innermost Sphinx. But today, psychology has dumped him and the whole sexual sheebang and is now purely mechanical. Only this is spotty and as research illuminates how sexual maturity changes the entire architecture of the brain, doctors treating patients seldom know all the details nor seem to care about them.

For most patients have no money. When a family is sane, it is easy to make money. A troubled family with unstable members struggles with fiscal problems and probably have no insurance. If the state is paying, they want psychiatric visits to be as short as possible. At the hospital my husband uses which is a very nice one, the average patient gets less than 15 minutes per visit per month, if that.

We won our court case and my husband's health bills are paid 100% by insurance for life---though he would far rather be healthy again!---but even then, the visits are kept to a minimum and periodically, I have to stick our lawyer on the state to force them to give him necessary health care.

In the case of this poor child in Boston, the entire system dealing with her failed because of the addiction to fixing all problems by using drugs overcame basic humanity.

From the article:

Kifuji, the psychiatrist prescribing the drugs, told police Rebecca had been her patient since August 2004, when she was 2. She said she based her diagnoses of ADHD and bipolar disorder on the family's mental health history, as described by Carolyn Riley, and Rebecca's behavior, as described by Carolyn and briefly observed by her during office visits.

How is it, a child of only 2 years, can be 'diagonosed' with ADHD based on what? Her siblings had it? Talk about bizarre. And basing it on the mother's description is also very dangerous. I have represented, in court, children falsely accused of being insane. The best way to deal with such cases is to have the mother go insane on the stand and shock the judge.

This has happened! On top of all this, the doctor who helped kill Rebecca, only saw her 'briefly'. This means for 15 minutes!

The absurdity of all this is obvious. I've had to deal with traumatized children in the past. Getting them to talk about anything at all takes a lot of time and patience. One can't simply interview them! The reimbursement of doctors so troubles the state, they have destroyed the psychiatric profession and replaced it with the pharmacist.

Worse than that, the pharmacists in this case was so alarmed, they contacted the psychiatrist and argued with her.

From the article:

Prosecutors say the Rileys intentionally tried to quiet their daughter with high doses of Clonidine. Relatives told police the Rileys called Clonidine the "happy medicine" and the "sleep medicine."

Many cruelties are done to small children to quiet them. Recently, in Russia, a patient in a hospital blew the whistle on overworked nurses caring for orphans when she was alarmed to see they were taping the children's mouths shut and tying them to their beds. In American medical centers, we gag them with drugs.

laudanum (n.):

1: narcotic consisting of a tincture of opium or any preparation in which opium is the main ingredient [syn: tincture of opium]

In the past, parents used opium to silence children's cries.

The Romantic and Victorian eras were marked by the widespread use of laudanum in Europe, and the United States. Initially a working class drug, laudanum was cheaper than a bottle of gin or wine, because it was treated as a medication for legal purposes and not taxed as an alcoholic beverage. Nurses also spoon-fed laudanum to infants.

This was outlawed when Victorian reformers realized this drug caused hallucinations and addictions leading to death. One wonders if the amazing proliferation of detailling and fanciful artwork and architecture was a result of the heavy use of opiates? It would seem logical to me for we didn't appreciate this art during the middle of the last century until the discovery of LSD and its use as a psychiatric drug.

I got my own first 'trip' from Timothy Leary, himself. It was literally an eye-opener.

This poor child looks like she was on belladonna, aka, 'Deadly Nightshade.'

From Wikipedia: Adverse reactions to atropine include ventricular fibrillation, supraventricular or ventricular tachycardia, giddiness, nausea, blurred vision, loss of balance, dilated pupils, photophobia, and possibly, notably in the elderly, confusion, hallucinations, and excitation. These latter effects are due to the fact that atropine is able to cross the blood-brain barrier. Because of the hallucinogenic properties, some have used the drug recreationally, though this is very dangerous and often unpleasant.

In overdoses, atropine is poisonous.

I took one look at the little girl's portrait and she looked like she was on quite a few hallucinagetic drugs! Her pupils are very wide and she resembles many pictures of young women in the last century, gazing dopily into the distance.

Here is a story from the Columbus Dispatch, concerning the heavy drugging of rambunctious children entering puberty.

Sunday, April 24, 2005
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Ohio Legal Rights Service, which is leading the charge for change, says the opposite should be done. Mental Health needs to impose far stricter rules to limit the use of medications and hold centers accountable for abuses, it says.

Both sides agree that psychiatric drugs can help kids suffering with anxiety, depression or a host of other mental illnesses. The question in these cases is whether medications are being used to treat children or as a chemical straitjacket.

Legal Rights, an independent state agency, has examined nearly 500 cases involving chemical restraints during the past five years, including:

? A 5-year-old boy who was so doped up that he couldn?t stop batting the air, complaining about imaginary bugs and smacking his lips. A doctor ordered him off all medication.

? A 10-year-old boy who was chemically restrained 69 times over 80 days. Doctors prescribed up to six drugs at a time ? and never conducted trials to determine which pills worked for what symptoms or disorders.

As someone who had good reason to feel anxious and depressed as a child, after being raped, I am also the first to say, a child needs to feel things! I am a fairly competent and decent adult because I was allowed (through neglect) to feel everything to my very bones. I suffered tremendously and bear scars from this but also, it became my strength: that which does not kill us makes us stronger. And I used to say, while in physcial pain--they did have to operate on me, twice---'If I feel pain, I am alive.'

This ability to overcome obstacles and to win the battle of life is part of the journey through life and even small children can do this. I once cared for a girl who saw her father die. Her mother didn't give her any drugs, instead, she worked out the pain by playing a game with the other girls in her group, a game she made up, herself. It was sleeping beauty being woken up by the prince, over and over, using dolls.

Everyone loved to play this and they took turns being the princess. It was part of her healing process and today, she is a happy adult, happily married. And, an actress.

Here is another story from last fall about over-drugging kids:

November 23, 2006
Proof Is Scant on Psychiatric Drug Mix for Young

By GARDINER HARRIS

Bottles of psychiatric medications fill the shelves. Stephen, 15, takes the antidepressants Zoloft and Desyrel for depression, the anticonvulsant Lamictal to moderate his moods and the stimulant Focalin XR to improve concentration. Jacob, 14, takes Focalin XR for concentration, the anticonvulsant Depakote to moderate his moods, the antipsychotic Risperdal to reduce anger and the antihypertensive Catapres to induce sleep.

Over the last three years, each boy has been prescribed 28 different psychiatric drugs.

Today, even as we put many people in prison for using or selling all sorts of drugs, we encourage legal drug use for very small children. A misguided desire to prevent them from feeling any pain or suffering, this is also due to a collective inability to raise young children. During much of our human history, children after weaning grew up in groups supervised by all the adults, especially the older ones who could no longer hunt too well or lift weights.

And the children raised each other, too. Their fights for dominance and the older ones teaching the younger ones, growing up was a group effort, there was no such thing as a nuclear family hiding behind closed doors, doing goofy, stupid, ugly things.

If a child grows up with a certain amount of adventure and happenstance, they can become fine adults if they are not viciously abused or drugged to death. But this requires all people working together and this is what our culture doesn't want. Even in Europe, 300 years ago, the Princes and Princesses lived in castles filled with people of all sorts which they had to deal with and socialize with.

There was so little privacy, the private bedchamber for the King and Queen wasn't really invented until 1700! In the 1300's, a private room for the King or Lord to meet with his top staff or wife, called the 'solar' was the only other room in most castles. Everyone ate and slept in the Great Hall.

Rebecca was born to a troubled family that had lost all point in living and simply existed, detached from not only society but reality. She was killed by a system set up to limit her impact on everyone else. Namely, the whole point was to suppress her existence and to make her disappear.

I was an annoying child with a very high IQ and most teachers didn't like me very much. I skipped grades because I was bored to death. If this were today, I probably would have been drugged. As it was, I did use drugs as a teen. What a mess that was!

It didn't fix anything. I just am who I am. As we all are, each individual, different. We have no idea what 'sanity' is and anyone who thinks they know what this is, is insane.

All I can say is, stop drugging small children. Until they can monitor their own doses and know what to do next, they should be left alone except in the very rare cases of true psychosis which prevents them from eating or drinking. And even then, only with greatest caution.

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[Canuck]

Isn’t it just lovely that these “normalizing” psycho-pharmaceuticals were designed to relieve symptoms generated by the application of Cold War Game Theory. No need to mention the profit angle now is there? Imagine that, psychiatrists and psychoanalysts hiding behind numerical analysis because they got caught with their collective pants down with their misguided institutional methods.

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Also the recent initiative whereby PharmCorp is bankrolling medical pundits to champion the prohibition of pharmacists to compound. Relegating pharmacists to exclusive Pharmcorp dispensers. All in the name of safety of course.

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[blues]

I will have much more to say about this when I get time. I know a lot about this. Do not put much faith in neurobiology for the next 50 years, as they are NOT micro-biologically up to speed at all.

I have found oxazepam and clonazepam to be very safe for anxiety, etc., despite all the stupid worry about 'addiction'. Mostly, nothing else is. Dexedrine or Ritalin sometimes work in a time-coordinated fashion in some subset of 'attention deficit'-like conditions. The new anti-seizure medicines like neurontin seem to help a subset of seizure victims. Prozac helps a subset of people with depression, but has bad side-effects for some.

Many, many children of relatively money-laden 'families' are shipped off to 'institutions' so these craven and evil 'families' can have all of their time to themselves!!! Psychoactively medicating children under 12 to 18 years old is not to be done at all lightly. Although they are sometimes helpful for very short periods, the neuroleptics ('new' ones out ever month) have created a global disaster.

Freud was full of it. (I think Elaine disagrees, and she has the right to be wrong, too.) It would be nice if doctors had any clue about how to help most people with psychological problems, but they know little. (And they WILL NOT agree with this!!!)

If you have troubles, an Amerindian medicine person might be able to help. Much more on this later when I have time.

(Oh, and most everyone should eat mescaline once a month... But then the whole 'wonderful' system would disintegrate.)

[larry, dfh]

An ex-boss used to remind us that the clinical trial that led to the approval of Ritalin was 6 weeks long in adult males. That shows an amazing amount of negligence on the part of the FDA in allowing a drug for life-time use on children based on such limited evidence. I know a kid who has been in the PA system for years, he's been drugged to the point of insanity. It has seemed to me for a long time the the big Pharmas all have their drugs of abuse. Originally, all the LSD came from Sandoz, Quaaludes was brand-name, the list goes on. The virtually unregulated use of psychoactive drugs has been such a boon for big pharma. And people are driving in cars and trucks blasted out of their minds on this stuff. Speaking of which, how is it that you are allowed to drive home from an optomotrist visit after being given atropine?

[blues]

The number of drug families that can do the slightest long-term good in incredibly complex electro-chemical nervous systems is astonishingly small. Since humans, in particular depend so much upon their nervous systems, they have huge livers to filter their blood. And assorted glial cells (mostly neuron-like, but with fewer active functions) comprise a blood-brain barrier, which filters nutrients and oxygen that reaches the more active neurons.

I think I recall that probably most ruminant animals, and definitely reptiles, have much less protection, and so are stoned most of the time. That would argue for breeding horses for large livers!

The way drugs are used these days, especially with children, is very strange. Some people are getting so many they really don't have time to even take them all. I don't know how I survived so far. I just take oxazepam, which lets me sleep. I have had scans, sleep studies, etc., and they say I get stuck in level 2 sleep, which is like half-way. My nervous system is known to be very unusual. They say I should be unable to do much of anything, but for example, I learned to do differential equations by just reading books. So I'm kind of a curiosity to them. My neurotransmitter system is playing in a different ballpark.They gave me few drugs because they never did what they do to other people. Which, I would guess, was for the best.

[Elaine Meinel Supkis]

How interesting. Well, there is no drug that can cure being hit by lightning or the other illness I have: slipping into the future periodically.

Most seers hide from the world but I won't. This is because I find life interesting and beautiful. My news service is mostly to warn people of what I see as obvious dangers.

People with astonishing abilities crop up all the time. This is not nearly studied enough. Such people are viewed as curiosities. But there certainly is something going on in our electrical systems to make us able to do bizarre things like assign numbers to nature.

To me, that is the oddest thing of all. It is as if we can 'see' Mother Nature's true face through her veils.

What really scares me is how people are using drugs to hide from important realities. In my husband's case, the emotional hurt caused by his boss in the fight over the poisoning, harmed him.

But the only cure was to face reality, accept the facts and then come to terms with it all. A difficult, multi-year journey. Drugs would have made it impossible.

This is why I am a Freudian: understanding the past means clearly seeing the present and understanding the future. And the key to this kingdom is definitely dreams: I remember all my dreams. They are where everything happens, the interlacing of dreams and reality is very intense.

Sometimes, to a scary degree.

I tell people who have trouble sleeping, start a dream dairy. Upon going into a dream, tell yourself, 'I will remember this' and even if it is only a tiny scrap, this extends the ability to see the other side of reality.

Since I was hit by lightning in my bed, I was an insomniac as a child. I decided one night to start a dream world and I asked Pegasus, the horse that flies to and from there all the time, to take me there, awake.

Since then, I can go into deep sleep. Religion is from this realm. It is really the dream world walking in daylight. It is really funny, to access some parts of this ancient system built up by humans over thousands and thousands of years, all one has to do is have an imagination and then visualize images.

And this is why I say there is no sanity. Just degrees of delusion. And lots of suppressed despair.

[blues]

Elaine, you are so sure of everything. You live on a mountain of magic and sensation and feeling. But the world is a big place. Your mountain is on a mere island, surrounded by a vast ocean, and there are incredible things beyond that ocean. I am thinking maybe you have yet to see them all.

You are something else!

[Elaine Meinel Supkis]

I'm an old lady. Heh. Can't travel anymore due to husband's illness.

But one can 'see' many things and the internet is like flying all over the universe even if one can't leave home. I love it so much.

[blues]

Elaine, you will never be an 'old lady', so cut the shit, you devious sorcerer. You are in fact kind of like a hardened monk. Me too. We can probably only agree to disagree. Seers do not get along at all with shamens, generally speaking, even wacky ones like me. But I could recommend some books. There are many versions of Lao Tzu, some fine, some goofy.

For some context on another perspective entirely (much more like your own), get Memnoch The Devil by Anne Rice (I would gladly send you it).

[JSmith]

"Freud was full of it." That's so.

The thing about pharmacological psychiatry is, it works. I'm a thoroughgoing materialist: what we call the "mind" is a function of the brain. And talking about stuff for 15 years or so doesn't do much.

AT THE SAME TIME... we overmedicate children because we find them troublesome. I was a somewhat troublesome kid myself. Once or twice, my first-grade teacher tied me to my desk with sewing thread. I had plenty of "wiggle room", but if I broke the thread I had to stay in durung recess. (Whic is something else schools are doing away with...)

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