"The false positive rate would be alarming," he says, "70% to 75% in the most careful studies and likely to be much higher once the diagnosis is official, in general use, and becomes a target for drug companies."
"Hundreds of thousands of teenagers and young adults (especially, it turns out, those on Medicaid) would receive the unnecessary prescription of atypical antipsychotic drugs," he warns.
"There is no proof that the atypical antipsychotics prevent psychotic episodes," he says, "but they do most certainly cause large and rapid weight gains (see the recent FDA warning) and are associated with reduced life expectancy--to say nothing about their high cost, other side effects, and stigma."
"Imagine the human tragedies that follow the mislabeling of 70% of children as severely mentally ill, who are then exposed to extremely toxic drugs that induce diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and a host of other severe adverse effects," warned Vera Hassner Sharav, founder and president of the Alliance for Human Research Protection, in a February 10, 2010 Infomail.
Unnecessary Drugging
"We
are going to have an epidemic of young adults with
yet-to-be-determined neurological problems due to the long term use
of psychotropic drugs," warns Washington DC psychiatrist Dr
Joseph Tarantolo, Board Chairperson of the International Center for
the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology.
An epidemic is
defined as 1% of the population and there will be far more than 1%
injured by these drugs, he says.
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