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Publication type: news

Key Findings On Psychiatric Drug Research
Dallas News.com 2008 Oct 26
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/stories/DN-cmapbox_26tex.ART.State.Edition1.4a86d1f.html


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Documents obtained by The Dallas Morning News concerning a proposed list of psychiatric drugs that can be used by foster children show Texas researchers and mental-health officials also:

• Discussed the need to defeat a bill in the Legislature that would have banned the use of psychiatric drugs in foster children younger than 5. They indicated the bill would prevent children from getting the medical treatment they need. The bill never made it past a legislative committee.

• Reduced information on child suicide risks in one of their published papers, at the request of a prestigious medical journal. “Please drastically prune this section,” an editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry wrote, in an effort to shorten the report. “Even the detailed discussion of risk factors for suicide is out of place in a paper reporting a medication algorithm.”

• Accepted complaints and feedback on an adult psychiatric drug list from Eli Lilly and Janssen, two pharmaceutical companies that donated grant money to the research protocols. The changes the representatives requested prompted one longtime mental health advocate to question “the influence of the pharmaceutical industry in our processes overall.” A state official who responded to the advocate said they took all drug company suggestions with a grain of salt.

• Considered incentives to get children enrolled in drug plan trials, including offering them gift certificates to Blockbuster and McDonald’s. It’s unclear whether the incentives were ever offered.

 

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Far too large a section of the treatment of disease is to-day controlled by the big manufacturing pharmacists, who have enslaved us in a plausible pseudo-science...
The blind faith which some men have in medicines illustrates too often the greatest of all human capacities - the capacity for self deception...
Some one will say, Is this all your science has to tell us? Is this the outcome of decades of good clinical work, of patient study of the disease, of anxious trial in such good faith of so many drugs? Give us back the childlike trust of the fathers in antimony and in the lancet rather than this cold nihilism. Not at all! Let us accept the truth, however unpleasant it may be, and with the death rate staring us in the face, let us not be deceived with vain fancies...
we need a stern, iconoclastic spirit which leads, not to nihilism, but to an active skepticism - not the passive skepticism, born of despair, but the active skepticism born of a knowledge that recognizes its limitations and knows full well that only in this attitude of mind can true progress be made.
- William Osler 1909