Dr. James Howenstine was like any other medical doctor of his time, until he began looking into natural health remedies. He discovered what many of us discovered, natural remedies are a better option in most cases in treating human ills. When it comes to treating children and teenagers for mental “disorders”, he has a safer method than what psychiatry is offering. Nurses should be well versed in all health trends and I invite you to read his article and explore this area of health care for yourself. Nurses are as liable as MDs and ARNPs for adverse reactions to psychotropic drugs and what patients do to themselves and others while under their influence. The FDA warnings are clear. Nurses should be voicing their concerns about psychotropics and children because this is our most vulnerable patient population and their human rights should be protected. Off-label use of psychotropics on children should be STOPPED immediately because it’s experimentation. Read this article and then sign the Nurses Call to Arms petition below: http://www.newswithviews.com/Howenstine/james58.htm#_ftn1
Sign the petition here: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/NrseCall2Arms/
CBS News reports the FDA is seeking an extension to the Black Box Warnings to the age group of 18-24 years old. This is further evidence of the dangers of using psychotropics on young people and children. Nurses are liable for monitoring the adverse effects and for full informed consent when initiating these drugs. It is my contention that they should not be used at all on children and further studies be done on the alternatives to medicating children for behavior problems. Read this article and then sign the petition below it: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/05/02/health/main2752847.shtml?source=RSSattr=HOME_2752847
Psychiatric drugs are not therapeutic to children. They merely cause a chemical reaction that tames or subdues them. Many children can not verbalize what is going on with them while on the drugs, nor can they express their uncomfortableness. They only know they feel different. For some, they will begin to feel suicidal or homicidal while on them. This is all that is needed to produce a “shooter” in our society.
Read this interview by a Psychiatrist, Watch this video with Michael Moore,
***then sign the petition below it: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-peter-breggin/the-real-mental-health-l_b_46327.html
Big news from Dr. Breggin, Psychiatrist. Seems all those supporting electro-shock treatments have no leg to stand on when it comes to ECT being “therapeutic”. ECT causes PERMANENT BRAIN DAMAGE and nurses should not be supporting a therapy that damages our most vital organ, the brain. Another violation of our own Nurses Code of Ethics and a patients Human Rights to be free of cruel and unusual treatment, also known as torture. Join me in getting this practice outlawed in all states. Sign the petition Nurses Call to Arms: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/NrseCall2Arms/
READ this important news article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com:80/dr-peter-breggin/disturbing-news-for-patie_b_44734.html?view=print
The Nurses Call to Arms petition is out on cyberlines decrying the use of off-label psychiatric medications on children and young adults 18 and under. It outlines the violations of the Nurses Code of Ethics and the particular articles of the United Nations Human Rights precepts. A call for a full Federal investigation is warranted. Follow this link to the petition site and join in the crusade to change the way we, as Nurses, are currently condoning practices that violate our own ethics, our own sensibilities toward experimentation on human beings, and sometimes our own personal morals of what is right and what is wrong. http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/NrseCall2Arms/
Watch this video report, then DO something about it. Join other nurses in a Call to Arms to stop this practice of drugging kids instead of really looking for physical reasons. Let’s don’t lose any more 4 year old little girls from “kiddie cocktails” of psychotropics. Sign the Nurses Call to Arms peitition above and support stopping the mental health screening programs like TMAP and TeenScreen from getting more kids on these drugs through our education systems. http://tinyurl.com/27bony
The Texas attorney general says TMAP was just one part of an elaborate marketing scheme to increase psychotropic drug sales.
by Jim Rosack
The Texas state attorney general joined a whistleblower lawsuit this past December accusing the pharmaceutical and consumer goods giant Johnson and Johnson Inc. of exaggerating the benefits and minimizing the known adverse effects associated with its second-generation antipsychotic Risperdal (risperidone), marketed by subsidiary Janssen L.P. http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/42/3/30
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today directed the manufacturers of all drug products approved for the treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) to develop Patient Medication Guides to alert patients to possible cardiovascular risks and risks of adverse psychiatric symptoms associated with the medicines, and to advise them of precautions that can be taken. http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2007/NEW01568.html
Testimony given on February 13th and 14th should have curdled the blood of Americans from coast to coast. The mainstream media, which receives several billion dollars a year in advertising income from Big Pharma, failed to report on the bone-chilling testimony that plainly depicts FDA fraud and collusion that is allowing thousands of our citizens to die at the hands of Big Pharma profiteering. Read this story here>http://www.newswithviews.com/Richards/byron21.htm
Here’s where Human Rights and Patient Rights become the same. This woman was not given any alternative treatments for her condition during the consent signing, only surgery was offered. Judges rule for the plaintiff that she should have been informed of any alternative treatments that would include surgery. Today, millions of school children and their parents are not being given any alternatives to drugs when undergoing mental health screening like TeenScreen. Read this article and feel the full impact of this poor judgement by the medical personnel involved. We as nurses, should have caught this and not allowed poor consent. Patients, or their parents and families, have a right to know: http://www.theolympian.com:80/112/story/64433.html
This BBC radio report tells the facts about TeenScreen and why NURSES should be against their methods to screen all children under 18 years of age. We, as a group, should insist on their use of FULL INFORMED CONSENT for any screening programs. Parental rights are being violated as they are not fully informed of what will happen should their children be deemed mentally ill and started on NON-FDA approved psychotropic drugs. Listen to this radio report, then sign the TeenScreen petition below. Let them know you, as a nurse, are concerned and insist on FULL INFORMED CONSENT….it’s their right! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBfA2OBirBI
Sign this petition: http://www.petitiononline.com/Tscreen/petition.html/
When a therapy is found to be more damaging than helpful, should we as healthcare workers continue to participate or condone this treatment? I’ve never personally ever seen a patient who has gone under ECT doing better after their treatments. I’ve seen them say they feel better but they looked like zombies (flat affect, slow, pressured speech, slow gait,etc). I think it’s time for nurses to speak out against Electro-Convulsant Therapy. Read this article, then make a comment on what you think.
Autopsy finds antidepressants in 21% of suicides. (Psychiatry)
BROOMFIELD, COLO. — Eleven percent of 123 youth suicide completers and 21% of 2,674 adults who died by suicide tested positive for the presence of an antidepressant in a comprehensive multistate study, Catherine Barber said at the annual conference of the American Association of Suicidology. Read the rest of this entry »
TeenScreen is being performed without adequate INFORMED CONSENT to parents and foster parents before mental health treatment is initiated. They are given no alternatives to traditional mental health care nor are they informed of treatment options. They are not screened for physical illnesses at all. There is NO information given to parents about the side effects and adverse reactions of medications, including death. It is against our own CODE OF ETHICS as nurses and the medical profession to allow this to happen. WE should be the advocates for these patients and insist on LAWS requiring INFORMED CONSENT in all states. Go to this website http://www.teenscreentruth.com/ now for the straight info on TeenScreen, then sign the petition below. Join me in going to our states capitals and lawmakers and insist on FULL INFORMED CONSENT for any screening and treatment for mental health. Nurses should take their role as patient protectors and advocates to the next level, changing society for the better. http://www.petitiononline.com/Tscreen/petition.html/
Provision 1.4 Code of Ethics for Nurses
Respect for human dignity requires the recognition of specific patient rights, particularly, the right of self-determinism. Self-determinism, also know as autonomy, is the philosophical basis for informed consent in healthcare. Patients have the moral and legal right to determine what will be done with their own person; to be given accurate, complete, and understandable information in a manner that facilitates an informed judgement; to be assisted with weighing the benefits, burdens, and available options in their treatment, including the choice of no treatment; to accept, refuse, or terminate treatment without deceit, undue influence, duress, coercion, or penalty; and to be given necessary support thoughout the decision-making and treatment process.