“There is an autistic child in my neighborhood...the guilt-ridden mother is now the local ‘bitch from hell’...takes it out on every one else because she is having trouble dealing with what she did...”
What did she do? Did she deliberately cause her child to have Autism? I can understand her frustration, and being a bitch from hell about it. It is a very bad situation to be in, having autistic children, it makes you feel hopeless.
Knowing your child will probably never have any kind of normal life, and you will spend the rest of your life caring for them, they will never leave the nest, have a career, or a family, and will probably never accomplish anything meaningful. They are cold and emotionless, almost without a soul. It’s really hard on the parents. The worst part is trying to imagine what’s going to happen to them after you pass away, prison? Hospital? Institution? It’s not a pretty reality.
The woman is a bitch from hell, I can understand and appreciate that, don’t hold it against her, try to put yourself in her situation.
That describes the mother, not the child; in this particular instance. I've seen the child smile...the mother? Not so much.
There are too many here in the ‘blaming vaccines = tin foil hat’ category to address them individually, so,
Once people get a diagnosis, of Anything, their odds of acquiring pharmaceutically induced damage of one kind or another skyrocket because the diagnosis comes with one kind of medical intervention or another.
The threshold for tagging someone as autistic has indeed be lowered and broadened because 40 or 50 years ago we didn’t live in a world where everyone had to have a college degree and college degrees don’t confer genius, only a paper stating the holder passed the required tests in one particular field of knowledge.
The medical field of knowledge at the University level has become increasingly funded by drug companies making products to sell. Hence the suppression of research showing drug co. products in a negative light. Tenured University academics are currently allowed to take money from drug companies on the side but they must disclose those payments to their university bosses. Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) has been raising all kinds of hell in the last few years rooting out researchers who don’t disclose the side money and falsify their research in return for it.
Paxil study 329 is just the tip of an iceberg.
https://www.google.com/search?q=paxil+329+study&hl=en&gbv=2&gs_l=hp.1.2.35i39j0l4j0i10l2j0l3.1986.3702.0.7962.4.4.0.0.0.0.114.300.3j1.4.0...0.0.0qnZfDqvYf4&oq=paxil%2B329&aq=1C&aqi=g-C2g-CK2&aql=
One drug company agenda is to manufacture expanded lists of FDA approved uses for already existing products. It’s a lot cheaper for them than developing a whole new drug.
Hand in hand with that goes sales depts. pushing products to Doctors for off-label use, which is illegal and keeps getting them Billion dollar Federal fines.
Students at any University in any field learn early you don’t contradict the Professors if you want a good grade. They parrot back whatever the Prof feeds them and drug companies pump hundreds of Million into those Universities. Biting the hand that feeds the University is severely frowned upon. So one side effect from one drug gets treated with a second drug carrying its own side effects and on and on.
Whatever else students graduate with, they leave, even those with the best of intentions, with the uneasy reality that rocking the boat even in the private sector is a damn fool idea. And the private sector for Docs is a much smaller sector than most people think it is. Hospitals welcome drug company research grants too and many qualify themselves as Teaching Hospitals for the Non-Profit tax benefits.
RWJF is part of the J&J empire. J&J bought FDA approval to market Risperdal for the treatment of irritability in autism. It’s a drug originally marketed to control psychosis in Schizophrenics and it bashes the daylights out of people.
This is just what FDA’s Medwatch got from Jan 2004-Sept 2009
http://lamplightersoftware.com/dsm.php
Risperidone Reported By
Adverse Reaction Cases MD CN OT PH LW NR
Suicidal Ideations 142 86 63 51 3 2 10
Attempted Suicides 248 248 25 53 17 6 11
Completed Suicides 107 84 12 37 9 4 4
Deaths Not From Suicide 900 788 135 357 75 48 33
Homicidal Ideations 16 16 2 14 0 0 0
Homicides 14 14 3 1 2 1 1
Hypomania/Mania 31 18 8 9 0 0 5
Heart Disease 318 262 37 90 44 8 18
Movement Disorders 964 535 226 355 132 37 76
Birth Defects 50 37 3 24 6 0 3
Premature Births 11 9 0 6 0 0 0
Prenatal/Neonatal Deaths 45 34 12 22 4 0 0
And the FDA actually granted them approval for ‘irritability associated with autism’
see also
http://psychrights.org/Drugs/AllenJonesTMAPJanuary20.pdf
Look up the RWJF grants at Hospitals and Universities in your own neighborhood.
http://www.rwjf.org/grants/search.jsp?name=GRANTS&q=UCSF&src=gr&isgrant=1&isprod=1&search_options=GRANTS
use the search box and look at some of the Silly A** crap they’re funding. It’s studied to gin up junk papers in med journals showing that J&J drugs worked well to keep kids from overeating after school snacks and such.
See my comments/links on this thread too.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2897171/posts?q=1&;page=51
Skepticism regarding pharmaceutical products does not require a tin foil hat.
Follow the money.