Preventive pharmacology: what’s that?
March 28, 2010
An international watchdog group known as the Citizens Commission on Human Rights International has posted information about a bizzare practice known as “preventive pharmacology” with children and others receiving drugs for ailments they probably don’t even have.
The spotlight this week is on an Australian doctor named Patrick McGorry, who was recently named Australian of the year by his country’s government. Now he’s a leading advocate of dosing adolescents and youngsters to keep them from having mental disorders. In his program, behavioral symptoms of teenagers are evaluated and if Dr. McGorry is suspicious of future mental problems, the youngsters are drugged with psychiatric medications to see if symptoms can be avoided. He wants $200 million more so he can bring more children under his care.
I’m not blaming the pharmaceutical companies for this because most of them are bowing out of drugs for mental illness. I’m just mentioning it as a horrible example of what people will do to promote schemes that make money for somebody.
–submitted courtesy of Griffith Publishing
Source: Citizens Commission on Human Rights International
