It is not something one can forget or forgive in the absence of Justice.

"If we should perish, the ruthlessness of the foe would be only the secondary cause of the disaster. The primary cause would be that the strength of a giant nation was directed by eyes too blind to see all the hazards of the struggle; and the blindness would be induced not by some accident of nature or history but by hatred and vainglory."  Reinhold Nieghbuhr in The Irony of American History  

I'm a MadMother.  

I was stripped of my inalienable rights without Due Process of Law. 

I was prevented from performing a sacred duty: 

to protect my own precious child from harm.

It is not something one can forget or forgive in the absence of Justice.

June 30, 2011, Robert Whitaker posted an article in Psychology Today titled, "Now Antidepressant-Induced Chronic Depression Has a Name: Tardive Dysphoria" six months later, he left this  comment:

"This is a very important issue, and it goes to how our society (and researchers) are willing to think of illegal drugs as harmful, but avoid such thoughts when the drugs are prescription drugs. There is evidence of cognitive impairment in many long-term users of SSRIs (researchers called this impairment "quite common"). And Grace Jackson, a psychiatrist, has written a book on this risk, called "Drug-Induced Dementia."

a couple of excerpts from the article:

"El-Mallakh detailed how tardive dysphoria may develop in patients who initially respond to an antidepressant and then stay on antidepressants long term. But what if patients respond well to an antidepressant and then stop taking the drug?  Their brains have been modified by exposure to the antidepressant (i.e. oppositional tolerance has developed), and thus, upon withdrawal of the drug, are they more likely to relapse than if they hadn’t been exposed to an antidepressant in the first place?"

"This same basic mechanism—oppositional tolerance to a psychiatric drug—has been proposed to be a cause of tardive dyskinesia (TD), which develops with some frequency in long-term users of antipsychotic medications. TD is characterized by repetitive, purposeless movements, such as a constant licking of the lips, which is evidence that the basal ganglia has been damaged by the drugs."

"But now here we are 40 years later, with perhaps ten percent of American adults taking an antidepressant, and researchers are writing about “oppositional tolerance,” and drug-induced “tardive dysphoria.” That is surely a health outcomes story that needs to investigated, and if we want to put this into an even sharper moral context, we need only consider this: Many teenagers are now being prescribed an antidepressant, and when they take the drug, their brains will develop “oppositional tolerance” to it. What percentage of these youth will end up with drug-induced tardive dysphoria, and thus suffer a lifetime of chronic depression?" read here.

Robert Whitaker makes a very important point in the last paragraph questioning the morality of the bio-medical paradigm of psychiatric treatment.  In all reality the abuse of power which underlies standard practice for treating symptoms associated with psychological distress whether the care is provided by a psychiatrist, by a pediatrician, a general practitioner or other medical professional: the prescription is invariably accompanied by a claim that the drug prescribed will treat an underlying condition in the brain which is causing the symptoms.  The cruel reality is the drugs used actually  alter brain function, causing normally functioning neurological processes to become dysfunctional.  The end result is cognitive impairment, which can be permanent.  

It is realistic and logical to think illegal drugs are harmful--the evidence is abundant and definitive. The same is also true for FDA approved mind and mood altering drugs used to treat psychiatric symptoms.  The evidence is being obscured by the direct-to-consumer marketing of the drugs; the "patient advocacy" groups with their campaigns to decrease the stigma of mental illness; the regulatory failure of the FDA; and the blind devotion to the idea that a revolutionary neuro-biological translational discovery is "right around the corner" of Thomas Insel, Director of the NIMH.  What is abundantly clear is that Conflicts of Interest have apparently prevented each of these "stake holders" from serving the best interests of the people given a psychiatric diagnosis ethically or altruistically. 

Each of these entitites has betrayed the trust of the American people.  I don't believe it's a conspiracy, nor do I think it's necessarily done with ill intent---with the exception of the drug industry and the research psychiatrists who ignored medical ethics and the harmful consequences of illegally marketing dangerous drugs as a panacea to "treat" emotional and behavioral problems caused by societal and environmental deficits. The drug industry has in all reality, been aided and abetted in a criminal enterprise, reliant on fraudulent claims about the diagnoses treated and the drugs used due to a successful albeit illegal marketing strategy. Federal authorities and "patient" advocacy groups remain silent about the pervasive fraud and corruption ans continue to benefit from the largess of their Big Pharma benefactors. Silence in effect is complicity in an ongoing criminal enterprise; the FDA and "patient advocacy" groups financially benefit by remaining silently complicit...

Each has colluded with the drug makers in perpetrating fraud.  These drug manufacturers have been found guilty several times of criminally marketing psychotropic drugs; the NIMH, the FDA and the patient advocacy groups have not warned the American people about the fraudulent claims used by the manufacturers to gain expedited FDA approval of the drugs; or about pHARMa's illegal marketing schemes. Drug Makers fail to perform the after market testing supposedly "required" by the FDA, while the FDA turns a blind eye to the failure.  In the illegally marketing phase of this criminal enterprise, it is clear that government regulatory authorities are utterly and completely worthless; it is also abundantly clear that advocacy groups have been willing participants. It is in this phase that the collusion comes clearly into focus:  each and every regulatory authority and patient advocacy group who receives funds from the drug industry has either actively participated and/or passively allowed this ongoing fraud, remaining silent and denying the horrific impact on the people with a psychiatric diagnosis who are disabled or killed the drugs. It is an egregious breach of the American people's trust that belies the self-proclaimed altruistic intent to advocate for the best interests of patients. It is made worse by the fact this collaboration relies on defrauding the American people whose tax dollars fund "patient" advocacy groups and the FDA, who approves the drugs and theoretically provides after-market regulatory enforcement on behalf of the American people. Relying on assurances of the safety and effectiveness of pharmaceutical drugs, without reliable evidence, could be hazardous to your health; it may even be fatal.     

Each government entity whose primary purpose is to serve the interests of the American people has utterly failed to do so; the failure has put our most vulnerable loved ones at risk.  Each has purposely lied about and/or concealed the results of federally funded research.  Each has lied to the American people about the safety and efficacy of psychotropic drugs, as well as the subjective nature of the diagnoses themselves.  Each has purposely misinformed the general public, the people diagnosed, and their families members with a fraudulent claim that was developed in an effort to lessen the stigma of a psychiatric diagnosis; but which has no basis in fact.  The claim that psychiatric diagnoses are caused by a genetic, neuro-biological, chemical imbalances or brain defects, is an idea that some had hoped would encourage the general public to be nicer to people with "mental illness;" that it would increase psychiatric patients inclusion into mainstream society.  

Ten years after this massive media campaign to inform Americans about how to help people with a psychiatric diagnosis, using this ill-conceived strategy, essentially, propaganda; it is discovered this "anti-stigma" campaign had the opposite effect. Now that the general public believe that mental illnesses are caused by brain diseases, people with psychiatric diagnoses are shunned and excluded even more by the general public than they were before this "anti-stigma" campaign.  Despite this failure, and in spite of the claim being a ploy with no scientific validity, it is still stated as if it is a fact by mental health professionals---including NIMH Director, Thomas Insel.   

The vast majority of NIMH research funding is directed towards searching for evidence to substantiate the disease hypothesis; the vast majority of public funds are expended for pharmaceutical drugs as if the disease hypothesis has been validated and is a medical certainty.

We have a publicly funded treatment system which is based on medically treating people with a psychiatric diagnosis as if psychiatric diagnoses are evidence of a biological defect in the absence of definitive evidence.  We pay for the prescription drugs prescribed to psychiatric patients and treat them under color of law by force if they are not cooperative.   A psychiatric diagnosis is now adjudicated in Courts of Law; a psychiatric diagnosis is a legal determination of one's social, political and legal status. The scientific evidence is insufficient, so a legal determination is substituted. It's not constitutional, nonetheless, it is legal in most states.  The laws passed do not require that evidence offered need not comply with the Rules of Evidence applicable in any and every other criminal and civil Court proceeding, nor do Standard court Procedures need to be followed---this is a separate, not equal, lower standard for the "mentally ill."

Under the guise of public service and benevolent assistance and advocacy, mental health practitioners and volunteer "advocates for the mentally ill" have, with the drug industry's help, misinformed millions of patients and families and have violated many individuals Substantive and Procedural Due Process Rights, to force "treatment" that violates a patient's Human Rights. These people are the primary victims, their families are also primary victims---the secondary  victims, are the taxpayers who pay for the Court Proceedings, and pay for the drugs, pay the subsistence disability payments made to those who are iatrogenically disabled.   The secondary victims are also passive perpetrators. This may harsh, but there are injustices that once one knows about them a failure to protest them and the refusal to act in defense of the victims becomes complicity. Human Rights crimes carried out under the Color of Law, would definitely qualify as a circumstance in which one's failure to act would make one complicit.

Every Federal Authority and patient advocacy group that has failed to inform, and has denied the deleterious negative effects of psychotropic drugs while simultaneously reassuring people in crisis and their family members, of the the safety and efficacy of the drugs; is guilty of fraud. They are using the same tainted inaccurate misinformation used to illegally market the drugs, and in effect, are aiding and abetting in an ongoing criminal enterprise.   People relied on this information have been disabled and have died, yet we are supposed to believe this is for their "benefit" and it is in their , "best interest."  Others have been forced to take drugs after being stripped of their dignity, deprived of their Human Rights and devoiced. Some can no longer speak up in their own defense, because they are traumatized and afraid, or the "necessary medical treatment" disabled and killed them.  

This is the worst Human Rights disaster in Human History. Who cares? Society has been trained not to care for or about "the mentally ill" by psychiatrists who are proponents of  biological reductive explanations for symptoms of distress, and it is propounded by unethical  government authorities and "patient" advocates. All are recipients of public funding from We the People, but also from pHARMa. It's apparent that pHARMA, the primary beneficiary of this ongoing fraud, is getting an excellent return on it's investment--and We the People are being royally screwed...Psychiatrists and "patient" advocates will tell you that the victims lack insight and have a disease that is genetic.  I fail to see how believing psychiatric symptoms are caused by a disease or defect would justify inhumane treatment. The fact is psychiatrists and self-appointed advocates who are devoted to the disease hypothesis, are advocating a perspective and a treatment agenda; this is NOT the same thing as advocating for an individual or an entire class of people.

Criminal mistreatment of the "mentally ill" is widely accepted and standard practice. I am haunted by memories and living an ongoing nightmare. We were traumatized by the inhumane manner both of us were treated by "professionals." It is the deleterious, traumatic impact the drugs have had on my brilliant, precious son that make it difficult to stand;   and  almost impossible to breathe because being forced to choke back my outrage and denied the right to defend my own child against those who tortured him, have made me a different person.  My spirit is altered in profound ways by the trauma of witnessing the torture that was  inflicted upon my child, and knowing that the harm is not yet, finished. Grieving parents can be ignored---after all, just like their "mentally ill" children just don't know what's "good for them," the parents can't possibly be right to protest the manner in which their children are mistreated and harmed by "professionals." (the obvious, but unspoken implication is that family members who object or protest about how a loved one is treated, mistreated or flat out tortured can be ignored. After all, the parents are probably genetically inferior don't you know...they probably just don't know...they have a lack of insight!) I was told by one psychiatrist, "in psychiatry, curing symptoms reigns suppreme(sic) over a collaborative approach. Parents who objected to medical treatment they would see as at best ill informed and at worst impaired themselves."

People in distress are getting "medical treatment" that is in fact not based on Ethical Medical principles, nor is it developed from ethically conducted or honestly reported research. This means it is treatment that is neither therapeutic or medical in nature; it is political in nature with psychiatry functioning as a social control authority. This fraud is still used in Standard Clinical Practice. Doctors are not supposed to lie to patients, and nobody is supposed to lie to the Police or in testimony offered in a Court of Law. Nonetheless, in Courts of Law around the Country, psychiatric diagnoses are adjudicated and become in effect, a legal sentence requiring psychiatric treatment compliance without needing to be supported on an evidentiary basis. How to "legally" justify forced psychiatric treatment: Abrogate the Rules of Evidence, Standard Court Procedures and Individual Rights under the Constitution.  

Gee, I think I know what the source of the stigma is!  The psychiatric diagnostic label itself is the stigma, always has been.  The very way that some advocacy is carried out is perpetuating stigma, yet claiming it's done to, "bust the stigma."  Worse than this, it is used as a justification for the grossly unethical treatment provided by “professionals” both in clinical research and clinical practice.

Driven by a small number of "psychiatric researchers" who are Key Opinion Leaders who minimize or dismiss the relevance of subjective experiences and minimize and dismiss the impact of political, environmental and societal causal factors, these psychiatrists are hell bent on finding the evidence to validate the disease hypothesis; dismissing as irrelevant any information which does not support the hypothesis.

Clinical trials are structured in a way that is biased, in a deliberate attempt to gather the data which will validate what is and has been Standard Practice in the provision of psychiatric treatment----This is BACKWARDS; the effort has been unsuccessful, yet it persists.  Psychiatrists are seeking definitive evidence for a hypothesis that they have been using to gain treatment compliance by telling patients and family members that it is brain disease that is the cause of mental illness, as if it is an objective fact, not merely a hypothesis. A hypothesis, that is not even validated isn't even a theory, let alone a medical certainty!    Psychiatric researchers have been saying that the discovery of the elusive definitive proof is right around the corner for decades now. People who hope it's true state the claim as if it is a fact, those who are advocates for the mentally ill, spread this misinformation and the safety and efficacy of the drugs.

It is a cruel deception, and it is fraud.  How could it be seen as anything else?  Medical professionals are telling people that they have a disease when they have not found one.  Why is psychiatry even considered a Medical Specialty?  Doctors who lie and say there is a disease, then treat this mythical disease with drugs that cause actual diseases; many frequently do not warn patients of the risks.  Many will deny the reported negative effects for what they are--early warning signs for neurological damage, frequently will be dismissed as "tolerable side effects."  This is abuse, and it is medical neglect of their patients who end up permanently impaired.  This is what is and has been happening to children in foster care, and at home with their parents---for decades.

Psychiatrists refuse to treat the iatrogenic diseases they cause; it is criminal medical neglect. The bio-medical model of psychiatry depends on deception, coercion and corruption of the scientific method, and necessitates ignoring the Ethical Guidelines of Informed Consent.  It also relies on the blind trust of a deceived populace: the public is informed that the people do not want  "help" and refuse this “medical care” ONLY due a lack of insight which they claim is another symptom. Psychiatrists and other medical professionals have been given the police powers, the Courts and the Police are psychiatry’s agents, Under Color of Law.

Psychiatry practiced in this way, is not therapeutic, and is not medicine.  Psychiatry has encouraged parents of minor and adult children to emotionally abandon them; stating that their child's pleas for help, protection and rescue are symptoms of their "disease."  It is one of the many things that I find utterly and completely despicable.  These "doctors" have managed to convince some parents to emotionally and physically abandon their own flesh and blood; denying them unconditional love and emotional support needed for them to recover.  Psychiatrists encourage parents to deny their victimized children protection "for their own good;" how is this not seen for the evil that it is?

It is immoral.  It is inhumane.  It is also clear that there is no intent to ameliorate the damage done to primary victims who are still living.  The Justice Department's Office of Civil Rights, Criminal Division has denied it has a duty to investigate Federal Crimes committed against my son---claiming it is not their "department" that deals with Civil Rights complaints when a mentally ill person's Civil Rights are violated Under Color of Law, even if the felony crimes were committed by Mental Health Professionals, acting under State Authority, paid with Federal funds.  I was informed that it is NOT their job...

The DOJ's Office of Civil Rights Criminal Division expects me to believe that the criminal complaint I filed on my son’s behalf remained for over a year in it's office, is in the wrong place. (12-2011)  I sent the complaint where I was told to send it by overnight mail, return receipt requested.  When it was received, I was assured it was in the right place, and told to call if I had additional information.  I wanted to inform them that Jon McClellan, who testified in a Senate Hearing, is the psychiatrist who disabled my son when he used him in Drug Trials without Informed Consent, and inspite of my vehement protests. The clerk asked me what was my new information, THEN told me The Depratment of Justice Office of Civil Rights Criminal Division doesn’t investigate crimes committed under color of law which violate the civil rights of people diagnosed mentally ill.

I may not have perfect insight--who the hell does?!  From the top of my head to soles of my feet, to the tips of my fingers and with every fiber of my being I know this: My right to perform my duty as a mother was denied by a federally funded psychiatric researcher who tortured and disabled my son.  

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Portions of this post first published December 21,2011 "Not Something One Can Forget or Forgive in the Absence of Justice"

Clinically Tested or NOT: Using Risperdal for children's behavioral issues is NOT yobluemama approved!

NOT yobluemama approved!

My youngest son has paid a horrific price for the malfeasance of psychiatry, the FDA and the drug industry.  I would think no consumer's health should be risked because the prescriber's information and judgement is compromised by flawed, incomplete, or otherwise questionable data. Prescription drugs are marketed directly to the American public in advertisements with exaggerated claims of efficacy and safety, that minimize actual risks---No consumer protection laws prohibiting false advertising apply...


Altogether, psychiatry has failed to be honest about what is and what is not known about any and all psychiatric diagnoses and treatments!  The practice of psychiatry is permeated with deception, a lack of medical ethics, and a history of  using 'Standard Practices' that are not supported by clinical research.  Psychiatry uses social control strategies which are coercive and abusive.  The physical and emotional harm patients complain of is attributed to the patient's "lack of insight," or failure to be "treatment compliant."  Even worse, some practitioners deny the harm patient's experience altogether; or insist the harm is just the "tolerable" side effects of the "safe and effective" treatment they provide.  Using the Courts to force patients to take drugs or have "electro-convulsive therapy" because these are  the "only treatments" psychiatry has; it is the only treatments that the bio-psychiatry devotees use, but it is not the only treatments available.  It is morally reprehensible to state this as a justification for forcing people to have this "treatment."  Psychiatry has garnered the Force of Law using corrupt rearch, unethical medical practices and subterfuge.  A person targeted in this way has no rights at all once Court Ordered; my son was stripped of his Individual Rights to procedural due process just by having a Court Order sought.


via Jim Edwards on BNET on August 3, 2011:
"The FDA told Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) in 1997 that its(sic) request to market the antipsychotic drug Risperdal for children was “without any justification.” In the following years, J&J’s army of pharmaceutical sales reps made 100,000 sales calls on child and adolescent psychiatrists, justifying this by “qualifying” the docs if they had as few as one adult patient exhibiting signs of schizophrenia,"  


read the entire article:
Claim: J&J Wrongly Marketed Antipsychotic Drug Risperdal to Kids  on BNET by Jim Edwards


I am certain they started this crap before 1997 since my son was prescribed Risperdal in 1995---for a reason that is not an approved use for this neuroleptic to this day...I refer to the drugs called "antipsychotics" as neuroleptics; it is a more accurate term for the drugs.  It is misleading and deceptive to call them "antipsychotic," since the drugs are not "antipsychotic" for the majority of patients who experience symptoms of psychosis. The neuroleptic drugs are now more commonly prescribed for other psychiatric diagnoses and for symptoms other than psychosis. 


Neuro meaning nerve, or neurological and leptic meaning to seize, take hold of.  The drugs work on the central nervous system, and were first described as being as effective as a frontal lobotomy; no need for surgery.  How did neuroleptics become "treatment" for children with behavior problems?!  

Civil Rights violations are committed as a matter of course in stand practice which is not surprising given psychiatry's lawless conduct historically, acceptance of this fact permeates Academia, both in Educational and Research programs.  It is morally reprehensible that psychiatry's 'Standard Practices' were developed using fraud, deception, the Un-Informed Consent from patients, and coercion.  Why are patients and family members misled, and out right lied to about the 'safety and efficacy' of drugs, and why are people being given drugs that do not benefit them to the degree that the benefits actually outweigh the very serious adverse effects?   Why is  virtually every person who legitimately claims substantial harm due to psychiatric 'treatment' disparaged, mocked or ridiculed---if not ignored altogether?  


Why is psychiatry not demanding that adverse events caused by psychiatric drugs, including death, be reported to the FDA so they have a clearer picture how safe and/or effective the drugs really are?  


We know how many Americans are prescribed psychiatric drugs---we need to know how many are being harmed.  It seems to me that collecting this data is necessary to determine the validity of the safety and efficacy claims.  It is the real world outcomes that we need data on.  In the real world the damage caused by psychopharmachology is growing exponentially with a myriad of chronic iatrogenic illnesses, neurological impairments and social, moral, financial devastation. The iatrogenic harm experienced by psychiatric patients and their families must not be ignored any longer.  IMHO, the fiscal and social damage is contributing to the increase in discriminatory attitudes towards those who are labeled by psychiatric diagnosis and their families. Americans are bombarded with direct to consumer advertising  grass roots advocates allow education and advocacy programs to function as venues for pharmaceutical marketing campaigns.  Psychopharmacologists in effect, act as if the people they label are no longer worthy of having their Human Rights protected or defended.  The labeled are denied Equal Protection Under the Law---by 'doctors.'  


Psychiatry, as a profession does not hold it's practitioners accountable.  Discredited Harvard research psychiatrist, Joseph Biederman, is on the Scientific Advisory Board of a Consumer Advocacy group, CABF---or whatever they call themselves now.... The man is a crook who now 'advises' a nonprofit "consumer advocacy" group about the very condition he invented, and treatments he falsified research about which he then lied about it when he was caught!?!   


The so-called 'doctor' who insisted he had no duty to obtain Informed Consent for drugging my minor son, because in Washington State the Age of Consent for mental health and substance abuse treatment is thirteen; is still the 'Medical Director' of the only state-run psychiatric facility for children. My son could not have a conversation longer than two minutes, so there is NO WAY in HELL he had the capacity to give Informed Consent; and every staff member at that facility knew it.  This shining example of ego-driven psychiatry acted as if he were God; and needed no Informed Consent; his own approval for his 'treatment' plan which traumatized and disabled my son are all that Quack Master Jack required.  Apparently his intellectual superiority, allow him to abuse his authority and ignore medical ethics altogether.  Jon McClellan appears to not have a moral compass, professional integrity or sound clinical judgement. 

I almost vomited when I read in his CV he has received Awards for 'helping kids' recover and that he gives speeches on Ethics to non-profit groups.  The man is a thug in a white coat who broke the law, broke my son's spirit and Isaac says, "He stole my intelligence mom!"  This 'doctor' lied to my face so many times it makes me sick.  A doctor who uses his medical license as a symbol of infallible superior judgement while lying to patients and parents; and ignoring the Ethics Guidelines of the Medical Profession and the Hippocratic Oath, is not qualified to teach Ethics!  These two 'doctors' are not ethically qualified to be members of the Medical profession; let alone qualified to conduct reasearch and teach students, or advise patients, parents, and advocates or inform public policy!   


If you heard about a mechanic who had fixed a friend's car so well it that the car no longer could run; would you take your car to that mechanic?  Would you ask for advice from that mechanic?  Jon McClellan advises the State of Washington to this day; he is a criminal more than he is a "doctor."  


Massive financial fraud, corruption and the Civil Rights violations of those who are court ordered and forced to take drugs and/or receive electroshock  'treatment' both of which can disable or kill them; is not just,  is not Humane, and it certainly is not therapeutic; it is criminal.  The US District Court in Alaska dismissed a Medicaid Fraud claim brought by The Law Project for Psychiatric Rights, because fraud is widespread and ongoing!  What was the judge smoking!?!  This should in fact be a priority for the Department of Justice, as it has fiscal, social and moral relevance for all Americans.  The fraud and corruption has decimated Medicaid and Medicare budgets while causing some to became disabled and who then are forced to rely on other federally-funded social service programs.


This deception is eerily reminiscent of psychiatric 'Standard Practices' of the first half of the 20th Century. It is more than reminiscent, it appears to be using the same tactics.  A small group of individuals have laws passed which in effect, declare that some people are of a lower class, this is  determined by a psychiatric diagnosis; and being of this class means they do not need Equal Protection or have the same Human Rights as those without a diagnosis. Those who are labeled by psychiatry can lose their Liberty, and do not have the an effective means to defend against this loss of liberty, the loss of Liberty can be permanent, and may in fact cause their death.  Once Court Ordered, they must receive 'treatment' regardless of the treatment 's safety or efficacy, or lack thereof.  In Washington State people who have been Court Ordered to psychiatric treatment are entered into a tracking system for life; so they can be more easily identified and to make it easier to Court Order them again.  Didn't any of the so-called "advocates" for the mantally ill who lobbied for the passage of these Unconstitutional Laws, ever read any History books or the Constitution of the United States of America?   

The effects of drugs are commonly not shared with those who are taking them willingly; there must be a reason....Could it be they are not as safe or as effective as is being claimed?  To justify continuing this misguided 'treatment' strategy, and (inconceivably) to legitimize this pseudo-medical profession; more lies were told to subvert the truth. The 'treatments' were proclaimed to be, 'safe and effective' and psychiatric diagnoses were declared by psychiatric decree, to be 'brain diseases,' 'brain disorders' and 'chemical imbalances' which require life-long psychiatric 'treatment.'  


I am more than a little disappointed the American Medical Association has not taken a stand on the loss of health, liberty and life caused by psychiatry and it's pseudo-medical treatments. Psychiatry virtually ignores the Ethical Guidelines for Informed Consent and the Hippocratic Oath to, "First do no harm..." 

"Whenever a doctor can not do good, he must be stopped."  Hippocrates.

a final note:

What is with our public servants, don't State and National elected officials take an oath to protect and defend the preeminent Law of the Land as WE the People's elected representatives?  There appears to be little evidence of representing the interests of the people when formulating public policy, or the legislation that effectively enacts those same public policies.  It appears that when formulating public policy, elected officials find ways to erode and subvert, rather than Protect and Defend the Law.   


Sworn Oaths do not have any significance once a person is in the grip of a new diagnosis being considered for the DSM 5 that afflicts psychiatrists, "advocates" of bio-psychiatry and those elected to Public Office it is called, "Special Interest Mania," is a disease that robs it's victims of ethical integrity, and allows them to abuse their authority. It's symptoms emerge when Conflicts of Interest are ignored and no longer recognized. Symptoms include a lack of remorse, a lack of empathy, and intense feelings of fulfillment and euphoria when close to a funding source, or special interest lobbyist. A unique feature of this condition is how it affects everyone who does not have it: It causes those who are not afflicted with it to be screwed over, and may lead to being stripped of their Human Rights and may include being labeled with a psychiatric diagnosis in need of life-long psychiatric treatment with or without consent.


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Priceless...

A thirty day supply of the 4 teratogenic psychiatric drugs my son takes: $1,124.17

Number prescribed for Tardive Dyskinesia?: 1

Number of prescriptions taken daily known to cause iatrogenic injuries and cognitive impairment: 4

Number of drugs that were FDA-approved for pediatric: Zero.

Number of prescription drugs my son takes that the FDA has since approved for use in children 13 and older?: 0

My son was further victimized, traumatized and ultimately disabled by a doctor who acted with impunity; he abused my son, abused his medical authority, and disregarded medical ethics altogether.   More than a million dollars was stolen from the American people by the Children's Administration employees of Washington State that intentionally defrauded Federal programs by making my son a Ward of the State. In effect, public servants robbed my friends, my neighbors and my family to pay for what was done to my son. Knowing that I was deprived of my Constitutional Rights as a parent, and was not allowed to protect my own son is something I cannot forget. Knowing I was deprived of my parental rights to act in my son's best interest and make medical decisions on his behalf without Procedural or Substantive Due Process of Law by Jon McClellan. Aresearch psychiatrist and the medical director of CSTC said he didn't need my Informed Consent. A coerced assent from my traumatized child? Absolutely priceless!

This is a MadMother MasterCard moment...

I was told if I didn't sign A Consent to Place agreement, I would be portrayed by the State as being unwilling to ACT IN MY SON'S "Best Interests." There was a Team Child Attorney who had been involved for years--whose Federal mandate is to preserve and defend my son's Constitutional Rights as a disabled child; another Officer of the Court who failed their duty to my son...When I asked why can't the real reason for the Consent to Place Agreement (to provide for my son's medical care due to being beat up and put in a closet and never receiving the recommended treatment for his traumatic injuries) be stated on the petition; I was told that was not allowed!  They ALL knew what was being done was ILLEGAL and advised me to go along with it, or "it would make me look bad." Years later, I learned that day, at that hearing was the ONLY opportunity the Law allowed for me to state for the record the facts which the "professionals" said couldn't be used...My Attorney failed to advise me of my right to do so; in fact he advised I just go along or the State would make me look bad...I was assured that I retained my parental rights to provide Consent to all Medical Treatment for my son...Those parental rights are now, and were then, preserved according to State and Federal Law.  

I'm not the one who looks bad. I'm not an Officer of the Court. I have never perjured myself in a Court of Law. I learned what my rights are; I researched dependency and mental health law; and learned what Court Procedures needed to be followed and suuccessfully sought my son's release from a locked psychiatric facility. By the Grace of God, I finally brought my son home January 5, 2005. 

All I had was the Law, the truth, and a naive belief that in a Court of Law, the law and the truth are all that is required...

original June 2011 updated for accuracy

Thank You For The Ominous Long-Term Health Risks

Quack Master Jack McClellan

"Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm."  Hippocrates

Jon McClellan, the lead researcher for childhood schizophrenia in Washington State, is a doctor who should be stopped.  He is the psychiatrist who gave my son neuroleptic and other  psychotropic drugs without consent. He repeatedly told me I had no say in treatment decisions; no say about what drugs he gave my son.  He drugged my son without consent, much less, Informed Consent; while trialing neuroleptic drugs for FDA approval; so the drugs he used were not approved for use on children.  Drugged my son over my objections, into a state of profound disability. He told me I had no say in what drugs were given to my boy, who had an IQ of 146.  It is frightening that this man is still the Medical Director of the State-run psychiatric facility for children.

Schizophrenia is a diagnosis of exclusion.  What that means is that any and all other explanations for the symptoms must be excluded.  Until this researcher got a hold of him, my son was diagnosed with Temporal Lobe Epilepsy and PTSD, the latter due to having been severely traumatized, in foster care.  Both of these can cause the symptoms which Dr. McClellan concluded were symptoms of schizophrenia.  When I asked him if he was going to do an EEG to rule out the Temporal Lobe Epilepsy; he said it was not necessary.  My protests were labeled denial, my input was dismissed; I was told I had no say.

Ultimately, McClellan put my son on Clozapine which between 1998 and 2005 was linked to 3,277 deaths in the U.S. and over 4,300 events that resulted in disability or required medical intervention, according to the data in the FDA Medwatch adverse events reporting system.  Dr. McClellan lied to me and said that since the drugs was  put back on market in the US, with mandatory blood draws, no one had died from it's use. He also told me that it was only over in Europe that anyone died at all.  This conversation happened only after he had put my son on the drug, as did all the conversations about what drugs he was using to treat my son. Like all of the drugs used by Jon McClellan, on my son, it was not approved for pediatric use for the reason McClellan prescribed them.

The reality is, no matter the diagnosis or the symptoms; this doctor had no right to use my son as a guinea pig---and he had no legal authority to drug him without my consent.  He did not have my son's consent---or his mother's permission; he did not comply with the Hippocratic oath, the ethics guidelines of the medical profession, the laws of the State of Washington, Federal Medicaid guidelines, the U.S. Constitution, or the Nuremberg Code.  There is no way in hell I would have given consent, had I been given the opportunity and actually been informed, which he did not think was necessary. Quack Master Jack, Jon McClellan, a "lead researcher" funded by NIMH, played God.

What is known and has been know about this class of drugs for decades, is that they cause iatrogenic, i.e. physician caused; diseases, neurological impairments, disability, and sudden, and early death.  These are know risks, and as such, should be information discussed prior to administration.  I found these facts out on my own, not in any conversation I had with "Dr. Jack," as he told the kids to call him.  My son, who still takes Clozapine, is unaware of these risks; no psychiatrist has discussed them with him.  McClellan used many anti-psychotics, on my son without adhering to any ethical, moral, or legal standard; knowing this, I am disgusted that this man never loses an opportunity to decry their over-use.  He had no problem using them to drug my son; without warning either my son or myself about the "Ominous Long-Term Health Risks."

It didn't matter to Quack Master Jack that he didn't have 
Informed Consent from the patient or his MadMother.

I was never asked if I wanted to sacrifice my son on the altar of corporate greed and have my son used in Drug Trials. Had I been asked, there's no way in hell I would have given consent. The TEOSS Drug Trial was a "seeding trial," the purpose of a "seeding trial" is gain FDA approval for a drug to treat a new condition, or a different population; to expand the drug market and ensure that BigPharma continues to make a killing

figuratively and literally...

It matters to this MadMother.

Does it matter to you?

Link to The Belmont Report and Nuremberg Code:


Originally published on December 17, 2010

Some expert! Jon McClellan claims he has no clue, maybe he has anosognosia

Jon McClellan

The recent reports by ABC News and Congressional Hearings held by Senator Tom Carper are only the latest investigation, announced with fanfare about an ongoing Human Rights tragedy of epic proportions.   The GAO's report was about ALL children on Medicaid, not only those in foster care; although the children in foster care have been what the 20/20 reports and the Senate Hearing focused on.


The fact that this is happening to kids who live with their parents who are on Medicaid is equally tragic; and is even less comprehensible, given the serious risks of the drugs being discussed.  It is because parents are not being informed of the known risks of the drugs, and are being misled about the nature of a psychiatric diagnosis?  The claim that any psychiatric diagnosis is a genetic or acquired defect is only a belief; yet parents are told their child has a  "disease," "chemical imbalance" or "neurobiolgoical" condition; as if it is a matter of fact. It is unethical it is only a belief that a psychiatric diagnosis is caused by a brain disease. A belief is evidence that a disease exists, the claim is not based on identifying any disease, so it is not a medical finding.


There is a lack of accountability, accompanied by an abdication of responsibility which underlies the entire issue of using psychotropic drugs broadly and indiscriminately on children whose brains are not fully developed.   The beginning of this failure to be accountable was evident in the testimony given by Jon McClellan. When he was asked why so many children are being drugged off label for behavioral and emotional difficulties, he claimed to have no insight whatsoever into the situation.  This is an answer which defies reason; and entirely lacks credibility.


Jon McClellan could have offered testimony in answer to the Senator's question by stating why he himself prescribed multiple drugs "off-label" to countless children who were Wards of the State of Washington, and who are, or have been, inpatients at what he referred to as, "my hospital,' Child Study and Treatment Center. Instead, he said he had no idea.  Currently and historically, about half of the 47 patients at CSTC are Wards of the State of Washington, "foster children" whose psychiatric care is Jon McClellan's responsibility.  My son was at this facility twice, the first time for seven months when he was seven years old.  Jon McClellan wrote the discharge summary for this hospitalization; he states that my son may have early onset schizophrenia--that the diagnosis needed to be 'ruled out.' He states this in spite of the fact that he knew my son had Left Temporal Lobe Epilepsy, a neurological condition. This neurological  condition is validated by Jon McClellan, who recorded it as a current diagnoses upon the my son's discharge summary the first time Isaac was at CSTC. 

Left Temporal Lobe Epilepsy is a condition which can cause the very same symptoms as schizophrenia, and which could explain all of my son's symptoms, which years later, Jon McClellan used to diagnose schizophrenia.  Schizophrenia is a diagnosis of EXCLUSION which means conditions which are known to cause the very same symptoms must not be present.  Temporal Lobe Epilepsy is thought to be caused by Brain Trauma.  My son was in foster care as a preschooler and was in fact brutally assaulted in foster care.  This assault is acknowledged by Jon McClellan, who recorded it in my son's medical record during his first hospitalization at CSTC, along with the notation that Child Protective Services were notified of the assault, as required by law.


When this "doctor" diagnosed my son with schizophrenia, I asked him wasn't it necessary to rule out the neurological condition he was known to have? Perhaps perform another EEG?  He said that it wasn't necessary.  I have since found out Jon McClellan ruled the Left Temporal Lobe Epilepsy out by removing the diagnosis from my son's medical record; a felony crime.


So, when I watched this hearing, and I heard him state he has no idea why children are being prescribed psychotropic drugs at such an alarming rate; I literally yelled at my computer screen, calling him a liar.  He could have shared the fact that he has written Practice Parameters and Treatment Protocols himself which are used by other medical professionals and which recommend using psychotropic drugs off-label for children.  He could have shared why he prescribed Ativan/lorazepam to my son in order to "control impulses" --- not an approved use.  It is a Benzodiazepine which is highly addictive, and meant for short term use only.  It is in fact standard practice for psychiatrists to prescribe this class of drugs long term.  It is also well known to cause brain damage.   Once Jon McClellan prescribed lorazepam it was prescribed to my son for the remainder of his 4+ year hospitalization.  Jon McClellan could have testified about how he prescribed Divalproex ER known as Depakote, "for aggression;" another drug Jon McClellan prescribed "off-label" which is contraindicated  for concomitant use with clozapine, a neuroleptic drug also known to cause brain damage, that he also prescribed "off-label."  None of these drugs were approved for pediatric use for the reasons Jon McClellan prescribed them to my son.  Some of the drugs are still not FDA approved for pediatric use over a decade after they were first prescribed to my son. Both clozapine and Divalproex ER are contraindicated for people with a diagnosis of epilepsy, and/or a history of brain trauma.  

If what Jon McClellan did to my son is not Human Experimentation, then I am Mary Freaking Poppins!

He could have testified that he did all of this while participating in a federally-funded drug trial.  A drug trial he claims that my son was not enrolled in, a drug trial testing the same neuroleptic drugs for pediatric use for children with a diagnosis of schizophrenia.  I am expected to believe that while he was one of the researchers who is listed as an investigator on the most comprehensive (read EXPENSIVE) trial of neuroleptic drugs called, "Atypical Antipsychotics" on children, he was also "trialing" the exact same drugs on my son, by coincidence? Am I to believe he was doing it for kicks? He certainly wasn't doing it for my son's benefit!  At one point, Jon McClellan prescribed three neuroleptic drugs concurrently, in addition to the other psychiatric drugs he prescribed to my; son; all of them "off-label" prescriptions.  I thought my son was going to die... literally.  I used to dream of hiring mercenaries to rescue him.  In addition to excluding the Temporal Lobe Epilepsy my son has by taking it off my son's medical record, Jon McClellan also claimed that the severe PTSD my son had ever since he was a preschooler from being victimized by a violent crime, was not important; and had nothing to do with his emotional and behavioral difficulties.


For Jon McClellan to have given an honest answer when asked by Senator Tom Carper on December 1, 2011, he would have to admit he does have some idea about why the outrageous prescribing of psychiatric drugs which are disabling and killing America's children are being used.  Perhaps, he is incapable of being honest; he certainly was never honest with me, or with my son.


What really gets me is this "doctor" is a lead researcher; an authority.  I know there is no way in hell that I am the only one that knows Jon McClellan's failed to comply with, or conform to ANY Ethical or Legal Standards in his "MIS-treatment" of my son---which should in all reality disqualify him from the practice of medicine.  It is simply not just a case of disagreement about a psychiatric diagnosis!  This "doctor" violated every single Ethical and Legal parameter applicable to the practice of medicine and bio-medical research which involves human subjects as my son's "doctor."  Can anyone reasonably believe that children in the State of Washington's custody are safe being treated by a psychiatrist with so little ethical integrity? 

Jon McClellan has ample experience prescribing psychotropic drugs off-label over the last couple of decades.  He has taught students at the University of Washington, and advises other medical professionals in phone consultations in a program the Washington State implemented.  In spite of these facts, and 2 + decades of doing these jobs in his professional career; he claims to have no insight whatsoever into the prescribing practices of psychiatric drugs which continues to defraud the Medicaid program.  Worse than the decimated budgets and robbing of the American taxpayers, is the plight of the primary victims of Human Experimentation in standard psychiatric practice: the children whose lives have been forever altered, like my son's was; and the  children whose lives have been lost altogether---like Rebecca Riley and Gabriel Meyers.  There are in fact countless thousands of children, who have been sacrificed on the altar of corporate greed by medical professionals.  Doctors paid by Medicaid and conducting Federally Funded research like Jon McClellan, are working for ALL of US.  It is the American taxpayers who these miscreants are working for---and I am wondering why more of us are not doing more to see that they are not allowed to keep killing and maiming America's children; while claiming it is MEDICINE?!


Does anyone really believe Jon McClellan has absolutely no insight into why neuroleptic drugs are being prescribed to children off label, since he wrote treatment guidelines recommending their off label use?  Does anybody wonder what the FDA does to doctors whose prescribing of drugs off-label results in a child's death?  The "doctor" that "treated" Gabriel Meyer to death, got a "warning letter" and still has a medical license.  The "doctor" that "treated" Rebecca Riley to death was granted immunity for testifying against the girl's mother at trial.  As usual, Jon McClellan is quoted in news reports when these events happen:  The expert who claims he has NO IDEA why these drugs are being commonly used with such ill effects, without being first tested or approved as safe and/or efficacious for pediatric use, on thousands of children across the Country----always has something to say when a child dies as a result. But, when asked in a Senate hearing about the issue, he has nothing substantial to offer...It is simply an unethical medical practice that McClellan himself uses and apparently, he has no idea why...

Let's Be Real: there is ample data

Let's be real, there already exists ample data---there is no need for further 'study' of the drugs, no need to continue conducting unethical seeding trials.  Seeding trials are trials conducted primarily as a function of a marketing agenda; to expand the market for the drug being trialed.    It is unethical to not inform trial participants of the purpose for the trial. Failing to inform trial participants the purpose for the trial violates their Human Rights; violates the AMA's guidelines for Informed Consent;  and it violates the Office of Human Subjects Research Human Research Protection Guidelines.


The Veterans Administration continued allow testing of  dangerous Neuroleptic Drugs which are known to have a risk of fatality particularly when given to elderly patients---on elderly Veterans with dementia.  The FDA issued a Black Box warning in 2005 warning that this class of drug causes elderly patients to die precipitously; yet the NIH funded a Drug Study in 2006 for Seroquel, one of the drugs given a Black Box warning, to be tested on elderly veterans with dementia; patients who cannot give informed consent for participation in the drug study. 


Why in the hell are Veterans being used as guinea pigs in Drug Trials?  Who are the geniuses on the Institutional Review Board that approved this unethical marketing strategy disguised as a drug study?  And why is the VA allowing a drug trial with a contraindicated drug for dementia to "treat" people who can not give Informed Consent?  Why is the NIH approving funding for drug trials testing drugs that have been given a Black Box warning because they cause patients to die?  It is unethical and just plain WRONG!  

If any of the neuroleptic drugs were used to treat a "physical" disease or biological dysfunction, I suspect they would have been banned long ago; due to the iatrogenic illnesses, disability and increased mortality that neuroleptics cause.  These teratogenic drugs have a lot in common with psychiatric treatments used in the past; treatments that in their turn, were proclaimed to be "safe and effective"--- insulin shock, cold water baths, and lobotomy, none actually were safe or effective, but all were decreed to be safe and effective treatments by the psychiatrists who used them.  The claim was not based on the patient's outcome; but in spite of  a high rate of adverse and even fatal real world outcomes of psychiatric patients.


Neuroleptics are neither safe nor effective for a significant percentage of people.  Neuroleptics are being prescribed "off-label" to children, to the elderly and to traumatized Veterans---with devastating consquences.  The number of bio-psychiatry's victims has to be in the millions since the advent of neuroleptic drugs; but this fact is not acknowledged by psychiatrists or mainstream mental health advocates. Proponents of Involuntary Treatment in fact lobby for unconstitutional Involuntary Treatment Laws. 

I know from experience, that my son's rights were neither protected, nor defended, when court orders were sought and obtained by mental health professionals.  My son's Individual Rights to Substantive and Procedural Due Process were violated, and I know this is not an isolated incident---Perjury and Forgery were used by two licensed "mental health professionals," acting Under Color of Law as agents of the State of Washington; one of them a psychiatrist. There was no criminal investigation conducted of the crimes that were promptly reported. The blatant criminal conduct that AGAIN victimized and further traumatized my son compelled me to start writing this blog.  I could not openly share the story without Isaac's permission--he wasn't willing to let people know what had been done to him as a psychiatric patient until the illegal court proceedings in the summer of 2010. 

"Practice Parameters" are developed by members of the American Psychiatric Association by consensus---not derived from valid research or scientific data. Consensus, a quasi-democratic political process is not at all scientific, nor is voting a scientific method that can quantify the safety or effectiveness of a treatment standard. Nonetheless, psychiatrists rely upon consensus and a vote of the APA membership to "validate" the Standards of Care used in standard clinical practice. 

Psychiatric diagnoses themselves are based on subjective observation and opinion, not empirical data; patients are diagnosed based on opinion, and a consensus of opinions is used to develop standard treatment protocols.  The neuroleptic drugs have fatal risks, and their use as a first line treatment for schizophrenia is based not on empirical data demonstrating their effectiveness, but on the opinions of so-called medical experts more than fifty years after their introduction!  Is this because the evidence base does not support using them as a first line treatment for people given a diagnosis of schizophrenia?  Why are we Court Ordering people to take drugs with disabling and fatal risks, how is this justifiable when neuroleptics are helpful for about a quarter of the people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia?  

In addition to this a egregious betrayal of psychiatric patients' and of the general public's trust, a betrayal that is ongoing; psychiatry has implemented standards of practice that make Medicaid and Medicare Fraud common in Standard Clinical Practice.  I personally don't believe this massive fraud and deceit will stop until the professionals who prescribe the drugs "off-label" and the pharmacists who fill prescriptions that are fraudulently submitted for reimbursement are held legally accountable for submitting fraudulent claims for payment...  

Pharmaceutical companies are liable for the illegal marketing practices of their employees---both civil and criminal liability needs to be addressed---fines for the corporate entities has done nothing to stop the rampant fraud, corruption and "off-label" prescribing of harmful drugs to children and other vulnerable people.  Individuals who are committing these crimes need to be prosecuted for the fraudulent claims that decimate publicly funded medical care programs.   

A prescriber who fails to share what is known about the risks for iatrogenic illnesses, disability and sudden and/or early death; fail to inform people that psychotropic drugs can cause physical and/or psychological DEPENDENCE---not unlike illicit drugs or alcohol dependence; is guilty of medical negligence.  

It took me years to forgive myself for not questioning or independently researching sooner the effects of the drugs given to my traumatized child.  I started independently researching in 2001; by then, my son had been given several psychiatric drugs "off-label;" all of which were fraudulently billed to Medicaid over the previous 6 year period--and none of which, "effectively treated" the behaviors they were prescribed to treat.  Quack Master Jack, Jon McClellan, the Medical Director at the State of Washington's psychiatric research facility for children, Child Study and Treatment Center, was less than forthcoming with information when I spoke with him; in fact McClellan avoided answering my questions about Isaac's diagnosis and treatment; and didn't even bother to pretend to be respectful or honest. McClellan was unable to be forthright and honest, when I would ask for information he was evasive. McClellan's evasiveness compelled me to start researching psychiatric diagnoses and the drugs used to treat them independently. 

The data I found, horrified me.  McClellan, one of the investigators funded in the TEOSS drug trials, which were being conducted while my son was his patient; minimized and even ridiculed my very real concerns about the obvious harm being done to my son physically and emotionally---For over four years while my son was in Child Study and Treatment Center, staff falsely claimed to be  informing and educating me about his diagnosis and the drugs that were prescribed to my son. 


Please note on the TEOSS Drug Trials---there is something seriously fishy about this expensive trial.  There are conflicting reports about how many children were enrolled--some reports say 116, and others say 119.  Two children died, and according to all of the reports, only 12% were helped by the neuroleptic drugs---This really begs the question, WHY ARE THESE DRUGS, WHICH ARE ONLY EFFECTIVE FOR A MINORITY OF PATIENTS DIAGNOSED WITH THE CONDITIONS THEY WERE DEVELOPED TO TREAT, BEING USED "OFF-LABEL" AT ALL, GIVEN THE SERIOUS RISKS??? EVEN MORE IMPORTANTLY, WHY ARE THEY IN WIDESPREAD USE???   

Jon McClellan claimed I had no say in what he was doing as my son's doctor---although my son was not in any condition to give Informed Consent, and his "assent" was coerced.  My son was told he would not, "get better" and "would not get to go home," if he did not take the drugs given to him.   So he took the drugs, only he never "got better," he was in fact disabled physically and cognitively impaired by the drugs.  My son says, "They stole my intelligence, mom;" and asked in agony, "How could they take so much from me, mom?"  No answer provides any comfort...

Doctors who lie to and mislead patients and parents whose patients develop iatrogenic illnesses and become disabled by the known, documented effects of psychiatric "treatment;" should lose their medical license and be criminally prosecuted.  ( it's not the patient's or the parent's fault that psychiatrists have been lying to and misinforming one another and other medical professionals about the actual direct effects of neuroleptic drugs! ) 

When serious and well-documented risks are denied, or are not shared in an open and forthright manner, it is unethical; such dishonesty is not the behavior of someone who values patient trust, or the Hippocratic Oath or is ethically seeking an Informed Consent for treatment.  When these risks are not even shared with the patient or a parent and the patient subsequently develops iatrogenic illness and/or disability, the "doctor" or other prescriber, often attributes these adverse effects (the drug's effects) to the patient's "diagnosis;" and do not report the adverse effects to the FDA database adverse events--even fatalities caused by the drugs are not required!  This begs the question, WHY are we purposely not collecting the very information needed to ethically and accurately assess risk vs benefit for FDA approved drugs?

Psychiatrists who lie to their patients, family members, and the general public, should not be trusted with special authority OR be granted special Police Powers to detain patients!  They certainly should not have the broad authority granted by the legislation passed with their "advocacy," strengthening Civil Commitment Laws.  It is ludicrous: A profession that has historically practiced "medicine" without honoring the Ethical Guidelines for Informed Consent of the American Medical Association; does not seem to value ethical research standards; and regularly deprives patients of their Human Rights in violation of the Nuremberg Code is granted broad authority including Police Powers to detain patients unwilling to be subjected to psychiatric "treatment." This broad authority allows psychiatrists to have people adjudicated in order to legally affix a diagnostic label and "treat" people who do not want to be treated. 

People who are vulnerable due to experiencing a crisis who may have difficulty communicating or be difficult to understand; people who may have difficulty distinguishing what is real and imaginary; and people who need help staying safe when in an emotional crisis need compassion and assistance from people who are HONEST with them and in telling others about their difficulties!  It is patently absurd that a "medical specialty" reliant upon manipulation and methods of social control to coerce a patient and their family member's cooperation to maintain treatment compliance; continues to wield authority and power that it has abused.  It is simply foolish to blindly trust any profession; it is criminal to grant legal authority to professionals who use deceit and coercion as tools to control vulnerable people in distress.

Thus far, bio-psychiatry has done nothing to earn the trust it has been granted "legally."  Psychiatrists and other medical professionals who fail to warn patients or guardians about the well known direct adverse effects of neuroleptic drugs, in cases where the patient experiences permanent disability are guilty of felony assault.  When the patient dies as a result of this "treatment," it is the crime of Criminally Negligent Manslaughter; Homicide.  Why is it that when the perpetrators are psychiatrists, no criminal charges are brought against them; they are allowed to continue practicing medicine and even be Federally Funded to conduct RESEARCH on vulnerable people.    

How in the hell did psychiatry determine that criminal conduct, is acceptable, that coercion and prevarication can be used in Standard Clinical Practice to gain "treatment compliance?" Using dishonesty and coercion in the practice of "medicine" does not change the nature of the acts themselves--lying is still being dishonest and coercion is still a social control strategy; a manipulation of vulnerable people; calling these tactics "treatment strategies" does not in fact change the nature of the acts themselves; much less make them ethical medical practices! Stating that psychiatric drugs are "safe and effective" in spite of evidence to the contrary, does not make the drugs safe or effective either.

I may have been naive, and regrettably, I was way too trusting in mental health professionals in my pursuit to get appropriate treatment that would effectively help my son.  Over the past 20 years, I have witnessed  more crimes committed by mental health and social service professionals than I ever witnessed during my misspent youth on the streets of Seattle.  Due to my experiences, I can assure you, I am no longer naive or trusting .  I wonder if I am overly cynical, skeptical, or just too freaking angry from being lied to and disrespected by professionals with a lack of professional ethics or a moral compass?  What is the appropriate response for a MadMother who bore witness to the Human Rights crimes that disabled my once brilliant son under the guise of "medical treatment?"

Andreasen Drops a Bombshell

via Pharmagossip

Antipsychotics and brain shrinkage - Certified Fraud Examiner Andy Prough comments

Andy Prough is a Certified Fraud Examiner who has been investigating fraud and abuse in healthcare settings since 1992. Andy completed his professional training with the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, and has gone on to complete specialized training in healthcare fraud and investigating conflicts of interest. Andy is the Vice President Elect of the Austin Chapter of Fraud Examiners. He has been very active with the state legislature, most recently serving on legislative advisory committees on the rights of children in foster care, and on the rights of families under investigation by Child Protective Services. Andy has also served on numerous state agency working groups and committees, including recent work with the Texas Dept. of Mental Health and Mental Retardation advisory committees on restricting the use of physical restraint and emergency medications in state mental hospitals. Recent reports by the Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General, by the Texas Comptroller's Office, and by numerous federal government agencies indicate that healthcare fraud is a significant, increasing problem in our society, costing the US billions per year. Through specialized training and experience, Andy has developed professional skills in the investigation of whistleblower claims of fraud against government healthcare agencies.

Source: http://www.austinacfe.com/andy.htm

A recent piece in PharmaGossip looking at Robert Whitaker's blog: here prompted a comment from Andy Prough.

Here it is in full:

Hi Robert,

I'm a big fan, having read everything you publish (sometimes several times, in order to understand the nature of the damage). 

You've brought up some great questions here, related to Andreason's study. And clearly, you predicted this revelation yourself quite a few years ago when you first published Mad in America. 

I think the bigger question is whether the manufacturers will be held liable? They've had the same information for at least as long as you have. What happens when the corporate whistleblowers start coming forward, showing evidence of Big Pharma board meetings at which brain shrinkage among juveniles was discussed and discarded? How big will the bill be under the False Claims Act? Fines of $11,000 per incident and triple damages can add up quick. 


parts of this article were first published on June 1, 2011 with the title "Let's be real, there already exists ample data"