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]]> Earlier this year a 7-year-old boy in state custody prescribed mind altering drugs threatened to kill himself, then he did. This summer another child on powerful drugs also threatened to kill himself, his mother called Help Me Howard, what happened after that? Tonight here is Patrick Fraser with a story we call a mothers hope.

Reported by: Patrick Fraser
Producer: Patrick Fraser
Contact: pfraser@wsvn.com

7 News Investigation reports

WSVN — When I first met Anthony he was not the child who had been described to me.

Hope Estrada, Anthony’s Mother: “I’ve been told by some doctors in Key West that I’m raising the next Charles Manson, OK?”

One doctor said he was mentally retarded, another said he was bi-polar. He has been sent to psychiatric hospitals, slapped in straight jackets and given mind altering drugs. The affect of it all on an 8-year-old is not surprising.

Hope Estrada: “The other day when he was Baker Acted and they restrained him, he told me, ‘Mom, I want to kill myself, I don’t want to live like this, I can’t control myself.’”

Hope says she was told a few weeks ago, by the State of Florida the best solution is to give up on Anthony.

Hope Estrada: “Basically I’ve been told, you know, move on with your life, and give Anthony to the state and let him become a ward of the state. I’m not going to do that, I refuse to give in.”

And so, after contacting dozens of people from the president on down she called Help Me Howard and we knew this case required an expert.

Howard Finkelstein: “I knew that Anthony needed a lawyer that was an expert in both DCF how kids were treated medications, mental health issues and the only person that came to mind was the best person was Andrea Moore.”

Andrea Moore, a noted child advocate, agreed to take Anthony’s case for free. It took weeks of her time, but as she met with Hope and Anthony, interviewed specialists and dug through his medical records, many things bothered her.

Andrea Moore, Child Advocate: “They didn’t know his IQ. This is the place he’s been three times in three years, they didn’t know his IQ, and he’s very smart, yet some of the paperwork that I saw, said he was mentally retarded. The conflicting information in the records tells me that people didn’t really carefully read the records.”

The heavy doses of three mind altering drugs used on adults troubled Andrea, even more frightening she believes Anthony may not have even needed those drugs.

Andrea Moore: “I started to wonder if we were dealing with a head injury, as opposed to a psychiatric, purely psychiatric situation.”

Turns out Andrea was right, Anthony did have a prior head injury. He fell and fractured his skull when he was eight months old, but he had never had a brain scan, instead private doctors hired by the state concluded he had psychiatric problems.

Patrick Fraser: “Why did it take you to notice this, when he is under the care of a psychiatrist, and has seen more doctors then you and I have probably seen in our lives combined? Why did it take you coming in from the outside to see that?”

Andrea Moore: “This is a terrible question Patrick.”

Andrea is modest and polite, Howard is blunt.

Howard Finkelstein: “They had diagnosed him wrong, they treated him wrong, and as a result of the misdiagnosis and mistreatment, I believe they were making him worse.”

With DCF’s help, Andrea got Anthony off the powerful drugs and moved from the psychiatric hospital. To Jackson Memorial’s highly touted brain injury center.

Patrick Fraser: “Good to see you my man.”

Today Anthony is getting the evaluations Andrea thinks he needs, and our investigation is bringing changes. When he was put in one psychiatric hospital Hope was forced to sign this letter that says if Hope has complaints about treatment or abuse she would not report it to DCF.

Jacqui Colyer, DCF Regional Director: “That I think is what keeps DCF on its feet.”

When DCF saw the document they moved quickly.

Jacqui Colyer: “We have spoken with all of our provider agencies just to let them know that they can not tell families when to call or not to call us, because that is a part of their rights.”

DCF also applauded Hope for fighting so hard for her son, but they say she did misunderstand one thing, that the state would have only taken custody of Anthony temporarily, not permanently, but thing is indisputable without Hope, Anthony was doomed.

And of course Hope and Anthony could not have done it without Andrea Moore.

Howard Finkelstein: “Andrea gave us her time her energy and her expertise and she fought along with Hope to save Anthony, you and I, we were just along for the ride.”

Got to see a little boy get a chance to just be a normal little boy.

Hope to Patrick: “Thank you. God bless you, because if it wasn’t for you, or Andrea, or Howard, my son would not get the help he needs Patrick, you are my guardian angel. I swear to God you are Anthony’s guardian angel and I owe you so much for this, I really really do.”

Finally Hope is wrong, Anthony has hope because of his mother’s hope

Patrick told me Anthony called him the other day and said he would really like to get a dog to make sure Patrick didn’t forget Anthony. faxed a picture of the kind of dog he wants he is getting better all right.

URL with Video: http://www.wsvn.com/features/articles/investigations/MI132922

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]]> http://badpsych.com/2009/10/02/misdiagnosed-and-mistreatment-of-a-child-with-past-head-injury-labeled-and-drugged-with-a-mental-illness/feed/ 0 Channel 7 News Fox WSVN-TV distastefully promotes drug research company for children http://badpsych.com/2009/09/14/channel-7-news-fox-wsvn-tv-distastefully-promotes-drug-research-company-for-children/ http://badpsych.com/2009/09/14/channel-7-news-fox-wsvn-tv-distastefully-promotes-drug-research-company-for-children/#comments Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:24:30 +0000 Administrator http://badpsych.com/?p=418 a

]]> On September 14th 2008 roughly around 5:23PM EST I was watching my local news, Channel 7 News Fox WSVN-TV, when a subject called “Defeat Depression” came to my interests. It showed an obese teenager named David Harvey playing a wrestling game at the beginning of the report and then it continues on as it shows him and his mother, Jeri Jashnoff, playing a cardboard game, sorry! (ironically). To make the story run short it explains that David’s mother losing her job in real estate from the bad economy and how worry some the teenager becomes after finding out that he can no longer get what he wants anymore because of the tight budget. Because his mother couldn’t afford the dangerous psychotropic drugs from her job lost she took him to a research facility called Segal Institute For Clinical Research where people get paid to become guinea pigs and take experimental drugs that hasn’t yet been approved by the FDA.

Richard Lemus interviewed the atrocious Psychiatrist, Dr. Scott Segal the owner of the Segal Institute for Clinical Research and has said:

Dr. Scott Segal, Psychiatrist, Segal Institute for Clinical Research: “It’s definitely making adults depressed, and therefore the children depressed, as well. However, they have less money to spend on treatments, and these days insurance companies have higher co-payments and it’s very difficult for people to come in.”

Even scarier, it’s hard for patients or their families to pay for the medications they so desperately need.

Dr. Scott Segal: “They get their visits and their evaluations and whatever is needed in the study for free, as well as medications. In fact, in research studies, the treatment is above the normal level of care.”

Patients will often try out new drugs that aren’t on the market yet and many times they can stay on that medication after the study is over.

Dr. Scott Segal: “In many studies, after the study is over, the pharmaceutical company will give them a compassionate care and allow them take the medications for a period of time.”

David is on a new medication and sees a doctor weekly. He and his mom have high hopes for the future.

What Richard Lemus and the Channel 7 News Fox WSVN-TV fail to revel to the public is that theirs other ways to defeat depression without the usage of the dangerous drugs. It’s called proper diet, exercise and proper outdoor activities like going to the beach or going to a park. In the whole segment of the story reported by Richard Lemus nowhere did it mention natural ways to deal with depression.

Transcript from this story can be seen on: URL: http://www.wsvn.com/features/articles/medicalreports/MI131332

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]]> http://badpsych.com/2009/09/14/channel-7-news-fox-wsvn-tv-distastefully-promotes-drug-research-company-for-children/feed/ 1 Whistleblower Allen Jones/Mental health screening of kids http://badpsych.com/2009/08/31/whistleblower-allen-jonesmental-health-screening-of-kids/ http://badpsych.com/2009/08/31/whistleblower-allen-jonesmental-health-screening-of-kids/#comments Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:39:00 +0000 Administrator http://badpsych.com/?p=415 a

]]> Whistleblower Allen Jones gained international press coverage after uncovering pharmaceutical industry payments to government officials for the purpose of implementing a national mental health screening/psychotropic drug treatment plan. In this video interview Jones describes the pharma funding and psycho/pharma agenda behind mental health “screening” of schoolchildren. He is a former investigator for the Pennsylvania Office of the Inspector General.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GhBfDMW2Fo[/youtube]

For more information go to

http://www.cchrint.org/2009/08/26/teen-screen-cynical-deception-dangerous-illusion/

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]]> http://badpsych.com/2009/08/31/whistleblower-allen-jonesmental-health-screening-of-kids/feed/ 0 The Psycho Pharmaceutical Industry with former Pharma Scientist http://badpsych.com/2009/08/13/the-psycho-pharmaceutical-industry-with-former-pharma-scientist/ http://badpsych.com/2009/08/13/the-psycho-pharmaceutical-industry-with-former-pharma-scientist/#comments Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:35:16 +0000 Administrator http://badpsych.com/?p=412 a

]]> Shane Ellison has a masters degree in organic chemistry and is a two-time recipient of the prestigious Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Grant for his studies in biochemistry and physiology. Here Shane exposes the inner workings of the psycho/pharmaceutical industry, the manufacture and marketing of psychiatric drugs and the fact that the psycho/pharma industry is well aware their drugs do not cure anyone. He previously worked for both Array BioPharma and Eli Lilly.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOT5DSIUTOY[/youtube]

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]]> http://badpsych.com/2009/08/13/the-psycho-pharmaceutical-industry-with-former-pharma-scientist/feed/ 2 Drugs misused on foster kids http://badpsych.com/2009/08/13/drugs-misused-on-foster-kids/ http://badpsych.com/2009/08/13/drugs-misused-on-foster-kids/#comments Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:25:03 +0000 Administrator http://badpsych.com/?p=409 a

]]> BY CAROL MARBIN MILLER
cmarbin@MiamiHerald.com

Admitting for the first time what critics have claimed for years, state child-welfare authorities say caregivers for children in state custody frequently use powerful mind-altering drugs to manage unruly kids, rather than treat their anger and sadness.A panel of child-welfare experts, including two top administrators from the state Department of Children & Families, examined the death of a 7-year-old Broward foster child who was on psychotropic medications — without the required consent — when he hanged himself in a Margate home.

The panel’s report, expected to be released publicly later this month, says child welfare authorities too often rely on the potent medications to manage abused and neglected children — but fail to offer psychiatric treatment to help them overcome the trauma they suffered.

“Psychotherapeutic medications are often being used to help parents, teachers and other child workers quiet and manage, rather than treat, children,” the report says. It adds: “We have not clearly articulated the standard of psychiatric care expected for children in state foster care.”

Gabriel Myers hanged himself from a detachable shower hose April 16 at a Broward foster home. He had been in foster care since the previous June, when his mother had been found slumped in her car, surrounded by a stash of narcotics.

After The Miami Herald reported that Gabriel had been given several psychiatric drugs linked by federal regulators to potentially dangerous side effects, including suicide, DCF Secretary George Sheldon appointed a work group to study the care given to the boy, as well as the agency’s overall reliance on mind-altering drugs.

Sheldon said Wednesday that serious questions arose over why so many children in state care are on psychotropic medications — and why so many claim they feel fine once the drugs are discontinued.

“There was a lot of evidence presented to the work group — from kids and from folks in the system — raising a lot of concern over the purpose of these drugs,” Sheldon said.

Sheldon cautioned that the draft of the report is not final and “is subject to a lot of change” after work group members review and tweak it.

An overarching theme of the work group’s discussions, and of the draft report, was the lack of a parent figure — or “champion” — for Gabriel, who the report said had become “overwhelmed” by change and disruption. While the youngster’s life crumbled around him, caseworkers took copious notes and documented each new development.

But the report says, “there was no sense of urgency driving the agencies and individuals responsible for the welfare of Gabriel Myers,” and “no one person stepped forward to act as his parent.”

Though Gabriel was in regular contact with agency-referred therapists and a psychiatrist, the report says, the “intensive therapy” was aimed almost exclusively at preventing the reoccurrence of sexually inappropriate behaviors that may have resulted from his molestation when he was a small child in Ohio.

“Gabriel Myers was not provided specific and upfront therapy to deal with identified trauma, possible post-traumatic stress disorder, and depression,” the report says.

The use of psychiatric drugs among children in state care is widespread.

Records updated by DCF last week show that, among children in state care aged 6-12, more than 22 percent are being given psychiatric drugs.

Almost one-third of the adolescents aged 13 to 17 are on psychiatric drugs, the updated records say.

Among the adolescents, close to four in 10 children in licensed foster care are on such drugs.

The smallest percentage of adolescents taking psychiatric drugs, 12 percent, live with relatives or family friends.

For almost a decade, children’s advocates have maintained that Florida has used potentially dangerous psychiatric drugs as “chemical restraints” on children who endured hellish abuse and neglect — and act out, sometimes violently, as a result.

“It’s heartening that they are admitting what has long been the agency’s dirty little secret,” said Coral Springs attorney and children’s advocate Andrea Moore, who told a DCF Broward administrator in 2001 that doctors were concocting mental health diagnoses for foster kids to justify using unnecessary drugs.

Among the report’s other findings:

• Foster children being administered psychiatric drugs with federal “black box” warnings of potentially dangerous side effects are not “adequately monitored” by foster parents, doctors or caseworkers. The children are not well-informed or involved in decisions about their medication.

• Caregivers for the state’s foster children are not required to report adverse incidents arising from psychotropic medication.

• Psychiatrists and pediatricians “often lack [a] medical history” for the foster children they treat, “yet still prescribe medications.”

• Biographical, medical and educational information contained in the Florida Safe Families Network, DCF’s statewide child-welfare database, is “frequently incomplete and inaccurate.”

• A “significant” number of dependent children have been given psychiatric drugs without the informed consent of a parent or judge, as state law requires. “Too often, parents and/or the court are unaware of critical issues involving medications, procedures are not followed, and documentation requirements are ignored.”

• Mental healthcare for foster children is “fragmented,” poorly funded and often does not include caregivers, who receive little to no training. Disabled children in state care often are excluded from mental healthcare because Medicaid will not pay for therapies specially geared to children with intellectual impairments.

• The state has failed to implement recommendations from prior task forces that studied the deaths of foster children or the use of psychiatric drugs. Indeed, DCF has failed to even assign “responsibility” or “accountability” for implementing such reports.

“Let’s just hope they don’t put this on a shelf and ignore it like all the other reports,” Moore said.

Simular post:

State officials investigating whether 7-year-old suicide victim was given mind-altering drug

URL: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/southflorida/story/1183698.html

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]]> [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6eGQDuU88E[/youtube]

Why do side effects not get discovered during clinical trials? Why do drugs get approved by the FDA, kill people have to be withdrawn from the market? Why do drug company constantly get sued over defective drugs? What’s wrong with pharmaceutical clinical trials?

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]]> Addiction, violence and suicide – these are some of the thousands of risks of antidepressants, but you won’t hear about it from your doctor, because he doesn’t know.

Paxil, Zoloft, Effexor, Prozac – how effective are they? Does Big Pharma want you to know? Douglas Kennedy – Fox News.

The risk of suicide at least doubles for children taking antidepressants according to short-term clinical trials.

Antidepressants are compared by researchers to cocaine in the DSM lll.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Bzwx5HcurM[/youtube]

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]]> Mind Control, Biological Psychology & Psychiatry Limitation

This video is an introduction to biological mind control through psychoactive drugs, electroshock therapy, brain operations and electrical implants into the brain. This type of mind control was experimented with by the CIA in their mind control project Mk Ultra. This video point out the main limitation of biological mind control and psychiatric therapy.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBYvY4gHlOk[/youtube]

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]]> Mental Health Screening, Psychiatry & Pharma Marketing Scam

Dr. John Breeding discusses that the intentions behind mental health screening might not be helping people but actually just for Pharma to sell more psychiatric drugs and make a profit.

Screening programs like TeenScreen refer high school ages children into the mental health system where they are labeled and given long term symptom management drugs which have been shown to have a host of undesirable side effects including early death.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VI9E71FaJ5M[/youtube]

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