The Despicable Way Big Pharma Successfully Drugs Up Your Kids
Posted By Dr. Mercola | May 22 2012
A new book exposing the secrets drug companies use to sell their wares may have you seething once you know what Big Pharma does to influence the drugging of the most vulnerable human beings of all―your children. According to AlterNet, the once modest specialty of child psychiatry has become a hot market for a pharmacology industry that services a mire of "disorders."
From schizophrenia to just being irritable (and a dozen behaviors in-between) there's a pill for every pediatric patient alive. And it's all because good marketing has made children the new money bomb. How can that be? Easy, says former Pharma rep Gen Olsen:
"Children are forced by school personnel to take their drugs, they are forced by their parents to take their drugs, and they are forced by their doctors to take their drugs. So, children are the ideal patient-type because they represent refilled prescription compliance and 'longevity'. In other words, they will be lifelong patients and repeat customers for Pharma."
The industry has no doubt been helped by federal and state laws that mandate universal mental health screening for all children from birth to ages 18 or 22, such as those in Indiana, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Illinois. That means that, technically, kids can be diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder as early as a few days old and drugged, even if their parents don't agree.
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