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