"The entirely bogus stigmatizing labels are a barcode on the forehead of a child, and once a label gets in a record, it sticks," Baughman warns. "These children are going to have problems getting health insurance and trouble finding employment.".
As a neurologist, "I would say that a third to a half of all the patients I saw had no organic disease," he says. "Now contrast that with a 2002 survey of child psychiatrists, where 91% of the kids were given a drug."
"It's not just psychiatry, it's pediatrics, neurologists, family practitioners, and psychologists all across the country," he states. "They have all become members of the child drugging establishment."
An alarming study by researchers from Thomson Reuters and the US Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration reviewed 472 million prescriptions for psychiatric drugs from August 2006 and July 2007, and found general practitioners wrote more than half of prescriptions in two main classes of drugs, 62% of antidepressants and 52% of stimulants. Family doctors also wrote 37% of prescriptions for antipsychotics, and 22% of anti-mania drugs, the study showed.
The researchers were especially concerned over antipsychotics being prescribed by general practitioners. The fact that antipsychotics may be more complex to prescribe, have some potentially serious side-effects, "emphasizes the need to understand the adequacy of care being provided by a GP," said Tami Mark, director of analytic strategies for the healthcare and science business of Thomson Reuters.
Attack on Child Drugging
The massive drugging of America's children, particularly poor, disadvantaged children and youth through Medicaid and in foster care, is an unfolding public health catastrophe of massive proportions, according to Alaskan attorney, Jim Gottstein, the leader the Law Project for Psychiatric Rights. Gottstein and PsychRights have made attacking this problem a priority.
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