Antipsychotic Meds Contribute to Diabetes, Suicide in Children

August 29, 2013

29 Aug (NATURAL NEWS) – Two detailed studies shine light on the devastating side effects that antipsychotic medications have on children and adolescents. One study, recently published in JAMA Psychiatry, reports that children on anti-psychotic medications are three times more likely to develop type 2 diabetes. The other study delves further into the dark side of the medications,  showing suicide rate increases 20 times greater when antipsychotic medication is used as treatment.

ANTIPSYCHOTIC DRUGS ARE ONE OF THE BIGGEST HOAXES OF MODERN DAY MEDICINE

happy-pills1Antipsychotic drugs, which have been mass produced in the last  decade and prescribed like candy, are looked to as the mood “cure all.” What  researchers are realizing, though, is that these medicines are actually more  like science experiments on the brain, created by chemists and peddled by drug  dealing giants who have no clue how each individual’s mind may react to the mind  altering effects their drugs impose. Most times, these drugs provide reverse  outcomes and devastating side effects. The blind trust in these brain altering  drugs is fooling many into believing in a chemical crutch instead of dealing  with life’s realities. Instead of adjusting thought patterns, diet habits and  correcting nutritional deficiencies, many run to the doctor looking for a pill  to cure their “anxiety.”

These pills are not dealing with the root of  emotional stress and mental instability. The pills do not let the person  properly heal with time. Rather, they change the chemical structure of the brain  in a way that destroys a natural healing process, a person’s inner strength and  adaptation, their ability to understand gratitude, determination, responsibility  and strength.

CHILDREN ‘THREE TIMES MORE LIKELY’ TO DEVELOP DIABETES

The diabetes  study, conducted by researchers from the Vanderbilt University School of  Medicine in Nashville, TN, between 1996 and 2007, focused on children and young  adults between ages 6 and 24 who were enrolled in Tennessee’s Medicaid  program.

During that time, a staggering 28,858 young recipients were put  on antipsychotic drugs. Another 14,429 control patients were prescribed  alternative medication.
During the first year follow-up period, 106  incident cases of type-2 diabetes cropped up among  all studied participants. The rate of those placed on anti psychotic drugs was  three times higher within the first year. Also, the average age for drug-induced  diabetes occurrence was 16.7 years.

The authors of the study recognized  many unknown cases of diabetes even cropping up within 6 months of antipsychotic  drug use. They  summarize:

 “In this cohort of children and youth who had recently  initiated use of an antipsychotic or a control psychotropic drug, antipsychotic  users had a risk of newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes three-times greater than  that for propensity score-matched controls. The excess risk occurred within the  first year of antipsychotic use, increased with cumulative antipsychotic dose,  and was present for children 6 to 17 years of age. The increased risk persisted  for up to 1 year following cessation of antipsychotic use, and in one series,  the majority of cases occurred within 6 months of drug initiation,” the study  authors say.”

HISTORIC, COMPREHENSIVE STUDY SHOWS 20 FOLD INCREASES OF SUICIDE IN TODAY’S DRUG TREATED PATIENTS

Suicide prevention is one of the main goals of  treating mental disorders; however, today’s new age antipsychotic drug  treatments are making this issue worse. One of the most comprehensive, historic  psychiatry evaluations reveals that patients treated with antipsychotics today  are 20 times more likely to commit suicide.  The rates are shocking.

ANTIPSYCHOTICS SEEM TO CREATE MUCH MORE VIOLENT PATIENTS

The study comes from the historic review, “Lifetime Suicide  Rates in Treated Schizophrenia: and 1994-1998 Cohorts Compared.” As the largest  study ever to address suicide in schizophrenia patients, it reports disturbing  facts about anti-psychotic drugs, which would be better termed “psychotic  drugs.”

In the review, the 1875-1924 time frame showed suicide  rates much smaller in schizophrenia treated patients. The records from the  asylum in North Wales show suicide rates of 20 for every 100,000 hospital years,  equating to less than 0.5% lifetime rate.

In a more modern era patient  group, between 1994-1998, the rate of suicide was 135 per 100,000 patient years,  or a 4% Lifetime rate. This translates to

a 20-fold increase in suicide rates  for patients with schizophrenia in the modern period.”

The clinical  director of a university hospital in London, Dr. Trevor Turner, writes,

“If  their figures are carefully boiled down, they show that in the course of 5 years  the historical cohort had 1 suicide in 594 individuals, whereas the present-day  cohort had 7 suicides in 133 individuals. Thus, patients treated with new age  antipsychotic drugs have a 20-fold increased risk of suicide compared to those  treated without drugs in Victorian times.”

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