That's a quote from a Forbes article that corresponds to the first result at the pages of results for a Google search of the term "pharmaceutical industry ghostwriting."
The article is from 2011. The medical writer who is the subject of the article and who wrote for the pharmaceutical industry until she finally quit and wrote about what it was like hadn't, by 2011, decided that her children didn't have ADHD, unfortunately.
This is the address of that article:
The media hasn't talked a lot about people being medicated, or children being medicated, since 2010. It wasn't talking about it every day before then, either, but I think it was when the media began, in 2010, to promote the idea that raping your wife and/or kids shouldn't cause you to go to jail that almost all public discussion of the rights of women and children stopped.
That's the address for the pages of search results for a Google search of the term "pharmaceutical industry ghostwriting."
That's the address for the pages of results for a Google search of the term "kids being medicated."
There's a CNN article from 2011 on the first page of those results. This is the address for it:
Quotes from that article:
"From 1999 to 2001, 0.78 per 1,000 children ages 2 through 5 used antipsychotic drugs. That rate increased to 1.59 by 2007, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry."
"In a Columbia University study, the rates of antidepressant use increased among people age 6 and older from 5.84% in 1996 to 10.12% in 2005."
The near-doubling of pediatric drugging described by those studies was probably a result of this:
"Direct-to-consumer advertising of drugs has been legal in the USA since 1985, but only really took off in 1997 when the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) eased up on a rule obliging companies to offer a detailed list of side effects in their infomercials (long format television commercials). Since then the industry has poured money into this form of promotion, spending just under US$5 billion last year alone."
That's a quote from a World Health Organization article from 2009. The address for the article is:
The WHO article also says:
"The net result is higher cost for the consumer or tax payer. It is the issue of costs that has put the issue of drug marketing and consumption firmly at the heart of the Obama administration's current review of the USA's health-care system."
A year after that article was published, President Obama's administration was promoting sexual harassment and child molestation, and real concern for the health of women and children was left by the wayside.
This is another quote from the 2011 CNN article:
"A 2010 CDC survey found that one in five U.S. high school students said they had taken a prescription drug such as OxyContin, Percocet, Vicodin, Adderall, Ritalin or Xanax without a physician's prescription."
Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, June 10, 2016 @ 10:56 p.m.
