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Aug 22 2007 | Comments 4
Kent emailed to say Risperdal has been approved by the FDA for kids between the ages of 13 and 17.
liz | 4:33 PM | Uncategorized
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Kent emailed to say Risperdal has been approved by the FDA for kids between the ages of 13 and 17.
liz | 4:33 PM | Uncategorized
Liz Spikol was born in Philadelphia sometime in the 20th century. She started writing about her experience as a person with mental illness in 1999, while employed at Philadelphia Weekly as the paper’s managing editor. Aside from serving as that paper’s web editor, music editor, staff writer, senior editor, executive editor and a host of other random roles that she couldn’t make up her mind about, she has also worked as a Spanish teacher, as a Certified Peer Specialist during Philly’s system-wide transformation and as a communications specialist for a prison reform organization. Currently, she works at the Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania and writes book reviews for PW. This blog — named one of the Top 10 Bipolar Blogs of 2007 and 2008 by PsychCentral — is about medications, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, OCD, PTSD, SAD (and many other acronyms), mad pride, Big Pharma, celebrities, hospitals, stigma and the recovery movement. And other stuff.
13 seems just too young for any sort of psychotropic drug. I’m thankful that these weren’t around when I was growing up…. well, almost.
What interested me about the FDA approval was being given an age 10 bipolar disorder in kids approval. As far as I understand, [which isn't much]I didn’t think there were any “real DSM” diagnostic criteria for psychiatrists to use, and for Risperdal to be approved by the FDA for Childhood Bipolar Disorder, seems to somehow pave the way for more and more children to be medicated, and misdiagnosed. I’ve traveled a long road with my daughter who was labeled BP at age 11 from a reaction to an antidepressant for bedwetting. Risperdal was given to her at age 11 in 1999. How? without FDA approval does that happen?
Stephany, From Wikipedia on Off-label use, “However, once the FDA approves a drug for prescription use, they do not attempt to regulate the practice of medicine, and so the physician makes decisions based on her or his best judgment.” Joe – who was prescribed Thorazine as a child.
Here’s a link to an article from last year about a possible connection between Risperdal and pituitary gland tumors, “especially in children”. The article also says Risperdal might cause enlargement of the pituitary gland, which can lead to vision problems and headaches, among other thing:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aWX2sm5ELhXQ
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