If you’re a child in Medicaid, you already have a more difficult life than average ahead of you. Children in Medicaid programs have nearly twice the number of mental health problems than other children. But now new research suggests it gets even worse for children …
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Anti-Psychotic Drugs (Zyprexa) Change Metabolism
“Based on these findings we concluded that male rats treated with olanzapine experienced an early disruption of energy metabolism.
In the study 18 male rats were randomly assigned to one of three groups: (1) those receiving the conventional antipsychotic drug haloperidol (HA); (2) those receiving the atypical antipsychotic drug olanzapine (OL); or (3) the control (CO) group which did not receive either drug.
The medicines were given in food for a period of six weeks. Female rats were excluded to eliminate bias in the study since antipsychotic-induced weight gain in female rodents is likely related to an interaction of the drugs with estrogens.
Testing after four weeks found that the concentration of blood sugar (as glucose) was higher in OL rats (0.87 g/l) than in CO rats (0.75 g/l) and the levels increased more rapidly after a glucose meal. Testing six weeks later found fasting blood sugar levels continued to rise in OL rats (1.46 g/l vs. 1.25 g/l in CO rats) while the level of lipids (fats) in the blood was similar for both groups.
Although there was no difference in body weight gain or food intake, the proportion of fat stored in the abdominal cavity was higher in OL rats (1.63%) vs. CO rats (1.44%).
The HA rats did not vary in any way with the control group at any time. They exhibited a lower blood sugar level after a glucose meal and a lower proportion of intraabdominal fat store (1.44%) than OL rats.
Senior study author Dominique Hermier said, “Based on these findings we concluded that male rats treated with olanzapine (Zyprexa) experienced an early disruption of energy metabolism. This was a result of the fat tissue we observed and the impairment in blood sugar regulation which are both associated with metabolic syndrome and subsequent risk of diabetes.”
Source: American Physiological Society
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Daniel Haszard Zyprexa whistle-blower
I can not say that I am suprised, I can say that I am quite alarmed. Physicians who take an oath to care for patients should not allow there inflated egos to allow them to think that they can prescribe and treat mental illness. I have worked in Mental Health a number of years and in many instances it is trial and error with a trained Psychiatrist (as it relates to medication maintenance. How dare a general physician prescribe psychiatric medications? Not to mention that it makes sense that as they have said (Medger Evers); i”if you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. If a General Physician has clients with mental illness he should join a network that will best allow him to treat the patients in his care.
I can honestly say this does not suprise me one bit, as someone who has educated over 130,000 kids in six states about the dangers of drugs, and helped thousands overcome addiction, the hardest time I have when it comes to educating people about all drugs and their effects, are some drugs are ” medicines” and when the kids actually start doing worse after taking these ‘meds” it still almost impossible to convince them it could be the drug, as a parent of a child who supposedly had ADHD, was prescribed amphetamines as a result and he became addicted at the age of 7.Later I found out he had a vitamin deficiency and I was able to get him on a nutritional program and he is going great, thanks for the information!
Definitely an interesting and frightening study, but I wonder if it takes into consideration the fact that all children in therapeutic foster care receive services through Medicaid, and that most/all of these kids are obviously on various antipsychotic drugs.
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From what I recall in the study, they also looked at kids with the same diagnosis, ie ADHD It showed that kids with Medicaid were more likely to be prescribed antipsychotics then kids with private insurance, even for the same diagnosis.
Frightening, but not surprising. There is also serious shortage of child and adolescent psychiatrists, especially in areas not near big cities. Although, it’s a great idea to only have children treated by psychiatrists trained in treating children, this isn’t a reasonable expectation in many areas of the country. Even in the big city I live in, many Medicaid children have long waits to see a child psychiatrist or a psychiatrist at all. I think a good interim solution would be to education pediatricians and other pcps about the dangers of these drugs. As well as require more continuing education on mental health issues. (not sponsored by drug companies).
Also, the “black box warnings” on SSRIs are partially to blame because many doctors are more hesitate to prescribe SSRIs for depression but will try an antipsychotic instead because it lacks the warning.
Also, how well can diagnosis of “bipolar disorder” in a 5 year old hold up over the long term? Except in causes of clear psychosis, this whole practice seems a bit bizarre.
How disheartening to review your comments as I am trying to locate a Child Psychiatrist for my daughter. I have worked many jobs to keep a roof over our heads and food on the table and I still cannot afford family health insurance. Therefore people in my position have two options. Do without care and suffer because of it or get care with Medicaid and still suffer for it. Anyone know of a competant Physician that does take Medicaid?