Nurses for Human Rights

Here we see one of the many articles showing up in the press everyday regarding the side effects of present day “atypical” antipsychotics. The profoundly damaging side effects continue to damage the users without hope for recovery from their mental illness and now their newly developed physical illness. The area that is most interesting to Legal Nurse Consultants and Attorney’s should be the area of state welfare and Medicaid. While scholars debate whether a psychiatrist can determine if a small child is depressed, suicidal, or “at risk” for emotional trauma the states Medicaid systems are pouring antipsychotics into children at an alarming rate. Their use is off label and against FDA guidelines. It will take the intelligence and tenacity of our Legal Nurse Consultants and Attorneys to litigate these areas and defend successfully the Human Rights of our children to not be damaged by these drugs in their formative years and to bring under the law the psychiatrist or medical doctor who insists that using these drugs are helpful, not harmful. Nothing could be further from the truth and I applaud my Legal Nurse Consultants and Attorneys who will take the fight to them for all the right reasons.

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