Subject: Childhood Under Siege: How Big Business Targets Children
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 11:19:31 -0400
From: veracare
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FYI
An Op Ed in The New York Times by Joel Bakan, a law professor at the University of British Columbia, is the author of "Childhood Under Siege: How Big Business Targets Children", provides insight into the conflict between laws enacted to protect children's best interest and the newly emerging laws that protect corporate best interests.
This conflict of interest has resulted in devastating consequences: children's best interest, their health and welfare have been sacrificed by for corporate profits.
Bakan cites childhood obesity resulting from irresponsible advertising by the purveyors of junk food. And the proliferation of toxic chemicals in children's environment that have undermined their health. And he cites under-regulated pharmaceutical industry practices, noting that corporate deception led to widespread prescribing of psychotropic drugs for children:
"we medicate increasing numbers of children with potentially harmful psychotropic drugs, a trend fueled in part by questionable and under-regulated pharmaceutical industry practices.
In the early 2000s, for example, drug companies withheld data suggesting that such drugs were more dangerous and less effective for children and teenagers than parents had been led to believe.
The law now requires "black box" warnings on those drugs' labels, but regulators have done little more to protect children from sometimes unneeded and dangerous drug treatments."
While the statement is true, readers are not informed about the actual scope and magnitude of the deceptive practices by pharmaceutical companies and their professional healthcare "partners" in government and academia that are undermining children's health and welfare.
Read Corrupt Practices section on the AHRP website. For example, Confidential Expert Witness Report Documents Psychiatrists' Corrupt
Practices at: http://www.ahrp.org/cms/content/view/822/70/
Read more... http://www.ahrp.org/cms/content/view/832/9/
Contact: Vera Hassner Sharav
veracare@ahrp.org
212-595-8974
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