Florida - Antipsychotics

Daytona Beach News Journal
Panel to review Medicaid guidelines for antipsychotic drugs
By M.C. MOEWE
Staff Writer
A panel named this month to discuss changing state guidelines on paying for antipsychotic drugs for children will meet for the first time June 25.

At stake is the future treatment of more than 18,000 children in Florida currently receiving atypical antipsychotics medication for conditions ranging from ADHD to bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.

The number of children in the Florida Medicaid program prescribed the powerful drugs has nearly doubled from 9,364 kids in 2000 to 18,137 in 2006, the Daytona Beach News-Journal reported in January.

Among those children, the most common primary diagnosis was attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) -- an ailment not approved for treatment with antipsychotics by the Food and Drug Administration or by experts on the disease.

Medicaid will pay for a drug only if it is "medically necessary and prescribed for medically accepted indications," according to current state guidelines.

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• abilify
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• seroquel
• zyprexa

[margo1942]

this should have been stopped along time ago. these drugs are very dangerous and parents need to stop giving these to their kids. it is all about profits for the drug companies and doctors. look around you at these children on these drugs they are zoombies.

[tynnsey]

abilify is approved by the fda to treat psychotic behavior in adolescents. i am 19 and at a boarding school called provo cayion school i was forced to take three differnt types of antipsycotics at differnt times during my stay. i would have to say haldol was by far the worst(thankgod i only got 1 shot in the butt ever) but i took geodon and risperdal for a couple of mounths. i felt absolutly dull,dumb,theOppositeOf euphoria,sedated,and depressed thaat ItWasSo hardToLaughOrSmile.Fuck Provo Canyon

[MayorofC]

GEODON HAS ABOUT KILLED MY MOTHER.

[beautifulmind546]

Please visit>  psychiatric-abuse(dot)org(dot)­uk/

[beautifulmind546]

Thank you Mr Kramer!!!!!

[lamictalinducedpsych]

i got an induced psychosis from taking a medicine lamictal, i now have to take abilify and seroquel XR for the rest of this stinking life

[SkaRocksYea]

@tynnsey OMG! Is it legal for them to do that to you? Were you in a mental hospital or something? That sucks!

[yatalapieman]

they don't know the long term effects on adults either (except that they can kill you

in old age)

[kaneakeluh]

@OpenComments...... and your point is?

[barkulator]

There is more profit to be made by letting people out of the state hospitals and putting them on lifetime prescriptions than there is by warehousing them in state owned institutions and employing orderlies and a few doctors. This is what motivates the notion that certain people need to be on these drugs for life. A lifetime prescription is a license to make money by any number of people. You never heard the old style hospitals made billions.