And the late Destiny Hager who was given Seroquel at three?
Is the "intervention" like the two children the Miami Herald says Mirko and Regina Ceska of Crawfordville, FLA adopted from state foster care who were so doped up on antipsychotics the couple asked Gov. Charlie Crist if "chemical restraints" were "prerequisites" in foster care?
Only to have Crist's head of the Department of Children and Families, George Sheldon, ask them to testify at the investigation into the death of foster care seven-year-old, Gabriel Myers, earlier this year, on similar drugs?
It is not a coincidence that 3,100 or 15.5 percent of the Florida's 20,000 children in state care are on psychoactive drugs, legally prescribed or not, a figure that likely applies to other states.
Do you think private plans will pay $900 a month per patient for a branded blockbuster drug that may not even be necessary?
No wonder pharma sits in so many "advisory positions" on state formularies, tampering with drug decision algorithms.
In fact, Texas charged Janssen in December with defrauding the state of millions "with their sophisticated and fraudulent marketing scheme," to "secure a spot for the drug, Risperdal, on the state's Medicaid preferred drug list and on controversial medical protocols that determine which drugs are given to adults and children in state custody."
In addition to giving trips, perks and kickbacks to Texas' mental health officials, says the Dallas News, Janssen disguised marketing tools as scientific research "including 'independent' articles that were nothing of the kind."
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