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Minnesota’s Mental Health Problem (probably your state’s mental health problem too)

All Posts from Kids at Risk Action, Reporting and News - MN SpecificBy Mike TikkanenDecember 15, 2016

Minnesota’s Mental Health Problem (probably your state’s mental health problem too)

The better part of being a volunteer County Guardian ad Litem is knowing that the 7 year old you advocate for will no longer be prostituted, or starved, beaten or sexually abused on a daily basis any more.

The saddest part of being a volunteer County guardian ad Litem is knowing that the children you helped save from the evils and traumas they lived with for so long were only kind of saved.

The guardian ad Litem cannot save the child from the suicidal ideation effects of Prozac or plethora of other psychotropic medications that are standard operating procedure in treated behavioral problems of state ward children.

About a third of children in my caseload were forced to take psychotropic medications like Prozac (they have no choice – the drugs are forced on them).

Nor can the guardian help the child to cope with the results of horrific traumas visited upon them.

We lobby for mental health services and feel like we have accomplished something when a psychological evaluation is ordered. The downside is that the resources to see that a meaningful percentage of abused children get into successful programs like the Washburn Center for Children just don’t exist. Instead we rely on the cheaper alternative, Prozac like drugs.

In 2014, America forced Prozac like drugs on 20,000 + one and two-year old children. One manufacturer (Johnson & Johnson) was fined 4 billion dollars for illegally selling these drugs to pediatricians for use on very young children (with 4 thousand cases awaiting trial and that is just one manufacturer).

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