Drug induced Bipolar
Diseases & symptoms linked to drugs
[vid] Blowing the Whistle on Big Pharma
[2011 July] Harvard Psychiatrists
Disciplined for Conflicts of Interest psychiatrist
Joseph Biederman and two of his proteges, Thomas Spencer and
Timothy Wilens -each of who failed to disclose millions of
dollars they had each received from the makers of antipsychotics,
the drugs they promoted for the treatment of bipolar in
children...The companies that paid them millions include: Eli
Lilly, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline and
Bristol-Myers Squibb.
....documents uncovered during litigation confirmed that the
research was scientifically corrupt and commercially-driven.
The New York Times reported that Dr. Biederman
promised Johnson a& Johnson that a study (yet to be conducted)
in preschool children who would be given the company's
antipsychotic, Risperdal (risperidone) "will support the safety
and effectiveness of Risperdal in this age group."
another of Biederman's Harvard ignoble disciples was Jeff
Bostic, who is also at Massachusetts General Hospital. He was
named in
a
2009 lawsuit joined by the US Department of Justice alleging
Forest Laboratories promoted its antidepressants for
pediatric use without FDA approval and paid kickbacks to docs to
encourage prescriptions. He received $750,000 in payments for
giving talks on using these drugs in children.
Strangely, the National Institute for Mental Health, which
had awarded thse psychiatrists millions of dollars at taxpayers
expense. It appears that
NIMH officials did not see fit to even conduct an
investigation into the corruption of science and violation of
federal regulations. This demonstrates a lack of professional
and moral integrity at the NIMH whose administrators think
nothing about the misappropriation of public money for
commercially-driven, junk research.
Quotes
When you
research the rise of juvenile bipolar illness in this country, you see that
it appears in lockstep with the prescribing of stimulants for ADHD and
antidepressants for depression. Prior to the use of those medications, you
find that researchers reported that manic-depressive illness, which is what
bipolar illness was called at the time, virtually never occurred in prepubertal children. But once psychiatrists started putting “hyperactive”
children on Ritalin, they started to see prepubertal children with manic
symptoms. Same thing happened when psychiatrists started prescribing
antidepressants to children and teenagers. A significant percentage had
manic or hypomanic reactions to the antidepressants.
When you add up all this
information, you end up documenting a story of how the lives of hundreds of
thousands of children in the United States have been destroyed in this way. In
fact, I think that the number of children and teenagers that have ended up
“bipolar” after being treated with a stimulant or an antidepressant is now well
over one million. This is a story of harm done on an unimaginable scale.
[2010]
Robert Whitaker Interview
"A recent survey revealed that a high percentage of children diagnosed with bipolar had first received a diagnosis of ADHD. This is informative, because Ritalin and other speed-type drugs are given to kids who are slapped with the ADHD label. Speed, sooner or later, produces a crash. This is easy to call “clinical depression.” Then comes Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft. These drugs can produce temporary highs, followed by more crashes. The psychiatrist notices the up and down pattern—and then comes the diagnosis of Bipolar (manic-depression) and other drugs, including Valproate and Lithium." ~ Jon Rappoport