Children in care & Psychiatric drugs
Children in care & Psychiatric drugs
I have brought this subject up because it’s one that needs some serious looking into. Just how many children in the 70’s & 80’s were drugged whilst in care? I keep saying that we need to go back over past history so we can learn from it but it would seem that those in power do not want us to knowthe facts. Why is that? More and more adults are coming forward whom were put into institutions in the care system as children and then forced to take psychiatric drugs to control them.The methods used to control children in care back in the 70’s and 80’s without a doubt constituted child abuse and if you take a look at the methods of control used were horrendous by any standards.What i find frustrating is how many tell solicitors, doctors and anyone within the departments of social services and the response they get is it was normal back then but what people don’t seem to understand is it was not normal to treat children in such a disgraceful manner. Unfortunatly the government at the time (Conservatives) gave approval to the harsh regimes used to control children whom were classed as the social delinquents and a menace to society. It didn’t occur to the government that those children were already suffering from the results of their parents mistakes by no fault of their own and therefor needed care instead of brutality. It was because of the degrading and brutal methods used on children in care in that era that created many damaging affects to those who would go into adult life traumatised by the abuse that often far out weighed the abuse they suffered at home. Many had children and had no idea how to cope with their own life and found it increasingly difficult to look after thier own children. Many of those adults were so used to aggressive means of control because the care system forced that on them so much so that they went on to mimic the same treatment they got onto their own children. Those children then went onto behave the same way their parents behaved and the same way the care system taught their parents. Drugs were used to control children in care as pointed out By Laurie Taylor in his book in whose best interest. There seems to be no measure of just how far the drug regimes expanded across the There was clearly alot going on in that specific era regarding the mental health and borderline personality disorder was a young illness that was not understood or the treatment of these disorders so in whose interest was it to research the mental health in young adolescents? The government? Yes. The drug companies? Yes. The psychiatric industry? Yes and all stood to gain from it in one way or another and behind those closed did that research include the drugs? Does that sound far fetched? Not if you have looked into the reality of what was going on for children in care and even young men in borstals. Sadly the lack of information and files from those era’s will inevitably create a problem in finding out the truth and full facts. So why is there so much missing in document form from that era? The possibility is that no one intended for that information to ever be made public and why would they want it to be made public? They wouldn’t because it resembled Adolph Hitler and his notorious methods with the aid of the Psychiatric industry. Fortunatly on the law of averages, nothing stays hidden forever does it? Power must never be misused and whilst those who think they are so powerful, we must remember they are not God I want to know the figures on how many children in care were drugged in the The Government should be looking further into providing adequate counciling facilities and get rid of the long waiting lists of up to a year for help and also take a strong and positive outlook on safe guarding our children by using safer methods of treatment without the use of resorting constantly to the use of psychiatric drugs. Therapy is very helpful but the use of Psychiatric drugs being handed out like sweets is damaging Britain and too often people are put on medication when it would be far more helpful by addressing the real issues and get the adequate provisions of counciling and therapies made available to those who need it. We also need to look at the failures and here are a few more to children and the mental health BBC NEWS Child ‘adult mental care’ scandal By Alison Holt Social Affairs correspondent, BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6165062.stm Treating children in adult psychiatric wards is a "national scandal", says the Children’s Commissioner for Professor Sir Al Aynsley-Green told the BBC he fears children leave in a poorer condition than when they went in. A report to be published next week by the charity Young Minds warns there are not enough emergency beds for children with mental health problems. Almost 1,000 under-18s spend time on an adult ward in a year, with more than half of those admissions inappropriate. Young Minds’ report, prepared for the Children’s Commissioner, details the experiences of sixteen young people, aged between 13 and 19, who have been treated on adult wards for their mental health problems. Some were held in police cells or accident and emergency units whilst a search was made for a place which could take them. Most felt frightened and confused with little information about what was happening to them. The report also says placing vulnerable teenagers on an adult ward raises child protection issues, with some of the teenagers being offered drugs or facing sexual advances. Sir Al said the situation is a "national scandal". "It wouldn’t surprise me if children leave adult wards worse than when they went in. "Putting children in an age-appropriate and developmentally-appropriate environment can only be better for them." ‘It was scary’ Jay Taylor spent three weeks on an adult psychiatric ward in March this year because doctors couldn’t find her a bed at a young people’s unit. She said: "I was really scared at first, it was nothing like I had ever seen before." Jay saw one person being held down by nurses and forced to take their medication. She says there was a lot of shouting and aggression with some patients clearly very disturbed. "It did get scary when they came towards you and were shouting and stuff, with being so young I didn’t know what to do." Jay was suffering from depression and anorexia and had virtually stopped eating and drinking, needing to be fed through a tube to regain her strength. She was admitted to the adult psychiatric unit in "I was vulnerable. I became more depressed, I became isolated within myself, I wasn’t getting the help I needed." In recent years, extra money has gone into child and adolescent mental health services but they are still under pressure, and finding a bed in an emergency is difficult. No beds Dr Barry Chipchase of Northumberland, "We know that most adolescent units are almost always full all of the time. "I know this because if I have a young person who needs admitting and we don’t have a bed in this unit, I have to ring round a number of other units around the country who tell me the same thing - that they don’t have a bed." Next entry: Children abused in care. What is going on with the system? Previous entry: Valerie B Wolf = Mind, Drug testing on children
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