Zyprexa makers looking for approval for use in Children…
St. Petersburg Times writer Robert Farley exposes the plan that Eli Lilly seeks FDA approval of the harmful anti-psychotic Zyprexa for use in children. Despite the lawsuits already on Lilly’s head, the drug maker is pushing for use in children. Zyprexa causes significant weight gain and diabetes in some cases, and with no known blood analysis or brain scan to diagnose schizophrenia, depression or bipolar disorders, we are putting our childrens’ future health at risk because of behavior problems. This drug is being used off-label for depression and anxiety in adults. How depressed are they going to get when they gain 30 lbs.? Do you know of any teenage girls who won’t get depressed when their weight goes up? This is just more evidence of the insanity that arises from a pharmaceutically driven practice such as psychiatry. An overhaul of the mental health field is sorely needed as there are other solutions to childrens’ behavior issues that do work and are not chemically based. Nurses should not be so quick to follow the status quo in psychiatry today. It’s a train ready to derail… read the article here:
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