Dear Child Protective Industry
I just wanted to take the opportunity to thank the Child Protective Industry for giving me so much to work with by providing a never ending supply of Child Welfare Screw-ups.
Without your corruption, stupidity, incompetence, mismanagement, fabrications, exaggerations and disregard for the rights and well being of our families and children, I'd be stuck blogging about flowers and butterflies or something lame like that. But thanks to you, I am always able to provide my readers with new and interesting material on how you deceive the general public by convincing the sheep that it's all for the greater good, while you are in fact running a fraudulent scheming Gestapo behind the veil of your confidentiality laws.
So thank you for putting our children with foster parents who will drug, beat, rape and kill them. Thank you for your contribution to the US prison and homeless population by allowing them to age out and booting them out on their ass as soon as they do. Thank you for defrauding the tax payer out of their hard earned money and fluffing your numbers by stealing children for frivolous reasons. And above all, thank you for f****** with my family, for had you not I would probably have a normal life.
Peace, love and flowers
LK
http://www.LegallyKidnapped.blogspot.com
Thank you LK. I couldn't have said it any better myself!
http://www.LegallyKidnapped.blogspot.com
Isabella Brooke Knightly and Austin Gamez-Knightly
In Memory of my Loving Husband, William F. Knightly Jr. Murdered by ILLEGAL Palliative Care at a Nashua, NH Hospital
Monday, July 19, 2010
Anti-psychotics may cause brain damage, new study shows
Anti-psychotics may cause brain damage, new study shows
By Zephaniah Samuels 18/07/10
Findings from a new study that shows that anti-psychotic drugs are likely to cause brain damage has raised alarm bells among health campaigners and human rights groups.
Effects of antipsychotics on brain volume
Entitled ‘A systematic review of the effects of antipsychotic drugs on brain volume ,' the results of this study dispel the widely-held view that schizophrenia itself causes brain structural changes. ‘Some evidence points towards the possibility that antipsychotic drugs reduce the volume of brain matter and increase ventricular or fluid volume. Antipsychotics may contribute to the genesis of some of the abnormalities usually attributed to schizophrenia,' the report says.
Published in the journal of Psychological Medicine these new findings are based on a review of the effects of antipsychotic drugs on the brain. The findings published earlier this year, have raised alarm among race equality and human rights groups who are increasingly concerned about the over-diagnosis of ‘schizophrenia' among people from African Caribbean people communities.
The annual Count Me In Census report logs the ethnic origin of those admitted into psychiatric care including those detained against their will under the Mental Health Act.
For the past four years census findings have shown that rates of forced detention of black people under the Act continue to rise while falling for the rest of the population. The results of the latest 2009 Census published earlier this year again confirmed health campaigners worst fears, that absolutely no improvement has been made to reduce the detention rate of black people sectioned under the Mental Health Act despite the former government's million pound programmed to address the racism and within mental health service.
African Caribbean's routinely given diagnosis of schizophrenia
Once in the system evidence shows that black people are routinely given a diagnosis of schizophrenia even though there is no biological evidence to show that this group have higher rates of mental ill health than their white counter parts.
The diagnosis of schizophrenia is routinely accompanied by a regime of antipsychotic medication, with little evidence of those who enter the system ever making a full recovery.
A report by the now defunct Mental Health Act Commission entitled, Risks, Rights and Recovery published in 2008 show that over stretched staff are regularly give patients high doses of medication in order to make patients more easy to manage.
This latest paper challenges the view that schizophrenia itself causes brain structural changes, such as less brain grey matter, larger ventricles and more cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) spaces, researchers say. The team responsible for this work reviewed magnetic resonance imaging studies, which had assessed brain changes in patient on anti-psychotic and those of patients not on the drugs.
Over half of the 26 studies showed that the brains of patients on anti-psychotics had shrunk. This was compared to the 21 studies of patients who had not be given anti-psychotics, where just five showed brain size decreases. However no differences were reported in three studies of non-drug patients who had been ill for a long time.
Drug treatment shrinks the brain
‘There seems to be enough evidence to suggest that antipsychotic drug treatment may play a role in reducing brain volume and increasing CSF or ventricular space,' researchers say.
Although these findings were published in January this year, equality groups are concerned that very little is being done to change the way in people diagnosed with schizophrenia are treated.
‘The psychiatric community still seem unworried by this [the possible effects on the brain of anti-psychotic medication] and continue to focus on the idea that schizophrenia is causing the brain damage,' Dr Moncrieff the lead researcher on this paper said.
The human costs to individuals and their loved ones has not ever been quantified, however the cost of schizophrenia on the public purse estimated to be close to £6.7 billion pound in 2004/005.
In this current economic climate experts from the community point out that decision makers need to recognise the economic impact of schizophrenia and move towards establishing alternatives to the medical model of care.
‘This research confirms what many of us working on the frontline with people who use mental health services have known for a very long time. The system damages people and now we see that the medication is causing brain damage. What is needed in a significant cut in the budget that goes on medication and more investment in community based services that have a good track record in keeping people well,' a community mental health worker told Black Mental Health UK.
http://www.blackmentalhealth.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=805&Itemid=117
By Zephaniah Samuels 18/07/10
Findings from a new study that shows that anti-psychotic drugs are likely to cause brain damage has raised alarm bells among health campaigners and human rights groups.
Effects of antipsychotics on brain volume
Entitled ‘A systematic review of the effects of antipsychotic drugs on brain volume ,' the results of this study dispel the widely-held view that schizophrenia itself causes brain structural changes. ‘Some evidence points towards the possibility that antipsychotic drugs reduce the volume of brain matter and increase ventricular or fluid volume. Antipsychotics may contribute to the genesis of some of the abnormalities usually attributed to schizophrenia,' the report says.
Published in the journal of Psychological Medicine these new findings are based on a review of the effects of antipsychotic drugs on the brain. The findings published earlier this year, have raised alarm among race equality and human rights groups who are increasingly concerned about the over-diagnosis of ‘schizophrenia' among people from African Caribbean people communities.
The annual Count Me In Census report logs the ethnic origin of those admitted into psychiatric care including those detained against their will under the Mental Health Act.
For the past four years census findings have shown that rates of forced detention of black people under the Act continue to rise while falling for the rest of the population. The results of the latest 2009 Census published earlier this year again confirmed health campaigners worst fears, that absolutely no improvement has been made to reduce the detention rate of black people sectioned under the Mental Health Act despite the former government's million pound programmed to address the racism and within mental health service.
African Caribbean's routinely given diagnosis of schizophrenia
Once in the system evidence shows that black people are routinely given a diagnosis of schizophrenia even though there is no biological evidence to show that this group have higher rates of mental ill health than their white counter parts.
The diagnosis of schizophrenia is routinely accompanied by a regime of antipsychotic medication, with little evidence of those who enter the system ever making a full recovery.
A report by the now defunct Mental Health Act Commission entitled, Risks, Rights and Recovery published in 2008 show that over stretched staff are regularly give patients high doses of medication in order to make patients more easy to manage.
This latest paper challenges the view that schizophrenia itself causes brain structural changes, such as less brain grey matter, larger ventricles and more cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) spaces, researchers say. The team responsible for this work reviewed magnetic resonance imaging studies, which had assessed brain changes in patient on anti-psychotic and those of patients not on the drugs.
Over half of the 26 studies showed that the brains of patients on anti-psychotics had shrunk. This was compared to the 21 studies of patients who had not be given anti-psychotics, where just five showed brain size decreases. However no differences were reported in three studies of non-drug patients who had been ill for a long time.
Drug treatment shrinks the brain
‘There seems to be enough evidence to suggest that antipsychotic drug treatment may play a role in reducing brain volume and increasing CSF or ventricular space,' researchers say.
Although these findings were published in January this year, equality groups are concerned that very little is being done to change the way in people diagnosed with schizophrenia are treated.
‘The psychiatric community still seem unworried by this [the possible effects on the brain of anti-psychotic medication] and continue to focus on the idea that schizophrenia is causing the brain damage,' Dr Moncrieff the lead researcher on this paper said.
The human costs to individuals and their loved ones has not ever been quantified, however the cost of schizophrenia on the public purse estimated to be close to £6.7 billion pound in 2004/005.
In this current economic climate experts from the community point out that decision makers need to recognise the economic impact of schizophrenia and move towards establishing alternatives to the medical model of care.
‘This research confirms what many of us working on the frontline with people who use mental health services have known for a very long time. The system damages people and now we see that the medication is causing brain damage. What is needed in a significant cut in the budget that goes on medication and more investment in community based services that have a good track record in keeping people well,' a community mental health worker told Black Mental Health UK.
http://www.blackmentalhealth.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=805&Itemid=117
Nebraska state employee accused of assaulting foster son
Nebraska state employee accused of assaulting foster son
Story
By the Lincoln Journal Star | Posted: Monday, July 19, 2010 11:00 am
Kirk Decoste (Courtesy image)
Useful Lincoln-area crime links
A 37-year-old state employee was arrested Saturday afternoon on suspicion of sexually assaulting his 10-year-old foster son.
Kirk Patrick Decoste, a state Department of Revenue employee who has been a single foster parent since January, was arrested on suspicion of second-degree sexual assault of a child.
An 18-year-old foster son told police he returned to the family apartment late Saturday morning to find the 10-year-old and Decoste both naked.
The younger boy later told police there had been unwanted sexual contact since his recent placement with Decoste, said Lincoln Police Officer Katie Flood.
She said Decoste has no criminal record.
The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services has placed both boys in other homes, Flood said.
Posted in Crime-and-courts on Monday, July 19, 2010 11:00 am Updated: 12:35 pm. |
http://journalstar.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/article_1167bbd4-9350-11df-9597-001cc4c03286.html
Story
By the Lincoln Journal Star | Posted: Monday, July 19, 2010 11:00 am
Kirk Decoste (Courtesy image)
Useful Lincoln-area crime links
A 37-year-old state employee was arrested Saturday afternoon on suspicion of sexually assaulting his 10-year-old foster son.
Kirk Patrick Decoste, a state Department of Revenue employee who has been a single foster parent since January, was arrested on suspicion of second-degree sexual assault of a child.
An 18-year-old foster son told police he returned to the family apartment late Saturday morning to find the 10-year-old and Decoste both naked.
The younger boy later told police there had been unwanted sexual contact since his recent placement with Decoste, said Lincoln Police Officer Katie Flood.
She said Decoste has no criminal record.
The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services has placed both boys in other homes, Flood said.
Posted in Crime-and-courts on Monday, July 19, 2010 11:00 am Updated: 12:35 pm. |
http://journalstar.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/article_1167bbd4-9350-11df-9597-001cc4c03286.html
Lincoln Police Arrest Foster Dad In Child Sexual Assault Case
Updated: 1:03 PM Jul 19, 2010
Lincoln Police Arrest Foster Dad In Child Sexual Assault Case
Lincoln
Lincoln police arrested a 37-year-old foster dad Saturday for 2nd degree sexual assault of a child.
Posted: 10:32 AM Jul 19, 2010
Reporter: Jon Vanderford
Email Address: jon.vanderford@1011now.com
Officer Flood on Foster Dad Arrested in Child Sexual Assault Case
Lincoln police arrested a 37-year-old foster dad Saturday for 2nd degree sexual assault of a child.
Officer Katie Flood says the 18-year-old foster son of Kirk Decoste came home to find him naked with the victim, a 10-year-old foster son. Flood says the 18-year-old son felt uneasy about the situation and decided to call police.
"The 10-year-old later disclosed he had been receiving unwanted sexual contact from the foster father," Flood says. "This had been occurring since June." Flood says the boy had been placed in Decoste's home in June.
Flood says both the 18-year-old and the 10-year-old were given alternative placement by Health and Human Services. She says the 18-year-old did not disclose any sexual abuse.
http://www.1011now.com/home/headlines/98749369.html
Lincoln Police Arrest Foster Dad In Child Sexual Assault Case
Lincoln
Lincoln police arrested a 37-year-old foster dad Saturday for 2nd degree sexual assault of a child.
Posted: 10:32 AM Jul 19, 2010
Reporter: Jon Vanderford
Email Address: jon.vanderford@1011now.com
Officer Flood on Foster Dad Arrested in Child Sexual Assault Case
Lincoln police arrested a 37-year-old foster dad Saturday for 2nd degree sexual assault of a child.
Officer Katie Flood says the 18-year-old foster son of Kirk Decoste came home to find him naked with the victim, a 10-year-old foster son. Flood says the 18-year-old son felt uneasy about the situation and decided to call police.
"The 10-year-old later disclosed he had been receiving unwanted sexual contact from the foster father," Flood says. "This had been occurring since June." Flood says the boy had been placed in Decoste's home in June.
Flood says both the 18-year-old and the 10-year-old were given alternative placement by Health and Human Services. She says the 18-year-old did not disclose any sexual abuse.
http://www.1011now.com/home/headlines/98749369.html
Runaway Foster Child killed by hotshot truck
Runaway Foster Child killed by hotshot truck
On Friday Pct. 4 Justice of the Peace James Metts joined the Texas Department of Public Safety in seeking information regarding the identify a woman killed in an overnight accident on July 15, 2010 on Hwy 105. She has now been identified as 16-year-old Felicia Michelle Minix of Houston. Miss Minix was under the care of Child Protective Services and had run away from a foster home.
She was walking alone in the westbound lane of Hwy 105 near Duck Creek Rd. a little before 3 a.m. when a hotshot truck (a two- axle truck pulling a gooseneck trailer) struck her. She was already deceased when medics arrived. The truck was disabled, with a busted radiator. However, the driver, 39-year-old James Steven Spurlin was uninjured. Judge Metts responded to the scene where he conducted an inquest and ordered the remains transported to the Dallas Forensic Center for an autopsy.
DPS Trooper Oelsner responded to conduct the accident investigation. DPS Sgt. Barnhill confirmed that Spurlin stated by the time he saw the Minix on the darkened roadway, he was unable to avoid striking her.
The Minix had no identification on her person and a search of the area also provided no clues as to her identity. She was not carrying a purse, wallet or cell phone, and had no ID in her clothing.
http://www.montgomerycountynews.net/index.php?module=article&view=1374
On Friday Pct. 4 Justice of the Peace James Metts joined the Texas Department of Public Safety in seeking information regarding the identify a woman killed in an overnight accident on July 15, 2010 on Hwy 105. She has now been identified as 16-year-old Felicia Michelle Minix of Houston. Miss Minix was under the care of Child Protective Services and had run away from a foster home.
She was walking alone in the westbound lane of Hwy 105 near Duck Creek Rd. a little before 3 a.m. when a hotshot truck (a two- axle truck pulling a gooseneck trailer) struck her. She was already deceased when medics arrived. The truck was disabled, with a busted radiator. However, the driver, 39-year-old James Steven Spurlin was uninjured. Judge Metts responded to the scene where he conducted an inquest and ordered the remains transported to the Dallas Forensic Center for an autopsy.
DPS Trooper Oelsner responded to conduct the accident investigation. DPS Sgt. Barnhill confirmed that Spurlin stated by the time he saw the Minix on the darkened roadway, he was unable to avoid striking her.
The Minix had no identification on her person and a search of the area also provided no clues as to her identity. She was not carrying a purse, wallet or cell phone, and had no ID in her clothing.
http://www.montgomerycountynews.net/index.php?module=article&view=1374
Florida To FDA: No Foster Kids In Psychotropic Trials
Florida To FDA: No Foster Kids In Psychotropic Trials
By Ed Silverman // July 19th, 2010 // 8:56 am
Last year, a 7-year-old foster boy named Gabriel Myers committed suicide in Florida and, after reams of publicity and hand-wringing over the use of psychotropic medications in such children, a state task force recommended, among other things, that children never be allowed to participate in a clinical trial designed to evaluate new psychotropic meds or whether such drugs approved for adults should be given to children.
The move was prompted, in part, because a Florida psychiatrist, Sohail Punjwani, who treated the boy before he committed suicide, received an FDA warning letter for failing “to protect the rights, safety and welfare” of children enrolled in clinical trials (back story). Before the suicide, the psychiatrist prescribed to kids several drugs, some of which weren’t approved by the FDA for use on children and had been linked to dangerous side effects, including an increased risk of suicide among children (back story).
As part of the follow-up, George Sheldon, who head’s Florida’s Department of Children and Families, wrote FDA commish Margaret Hamburg for info about any foster children who might have participated in clinical trials for psychotropic meds (read the letter) and asked the FDA to forbid foster kids from participating in these trials. Last month, the agency wrote back to say the agency does not agree with a “blanket prohibition” on enrolling foster children. Why? Such a policy fails to account for the greater risk of off-label prescribing and research involving children can yield benefits that cannot be obtained by tracking usage in adults, Jill Warner, acting associate commissioner for the FDA’s Special Medical Programs, wrote back (see here). Drugmakers, by the way, also have something at stake - they receive an extra six months of marketing exclusivity in return for having conducted the pediatric trials.
We asked Florida officials if they are rethinking their position. The answer? No way. The state is resolute. A department spokeswoman writes us to say this: “There is no impasse. While we appreciate the information provided by the Food and Drug Administration, the Department of Children and Families, not the FDA, is responsible for the protection of children in its care and takes those responsibilities extremely seriously. To that end, we have, by administrative procedures, prohibited the use of children in state care in clinical trials relating to the development of new psychotropic medications.
“Additionally, this Department’s operating procedure on ‘Institutional Oversight of Human Subject Research and Institutional Review Board Designation’ now further specifies: “At no time shall a child in the custody of the Department be allowed to participate in a clinical trial that is designed to develop new psychotropic medications or evaluate the suitability of providing medications previously approved for adults to children” (read more here). She adds that the department expects to send a formal response to the FDA in the “immediate future.” What do you think?
http://www.pharmalot.com/2010/07/florida-tells-fda-no-children-in-psychotropic-trials/
By Ed Silverman // July 19th, 2010 // 8:56 am
Last year, a 7-year-old foster boy named Gabriel Myers committed suicide in Florida and, after reams of publicity and hand-wringing over the use of psychotropic medications in such children, a state task force recommended, among other things, that children never be allowed to participate in a clinical trial designed to evaluate new psychotropic meds or whether such drugs approved for adults should be given to children.
The move was prompted, in part, because a Florida psychiatrist, Sohail Punjwani, who treated the boy before he committed suicide, received an FDA warning letter for failing “to protect the rights, safety and welfare” of children enrolled in clinical trials (back story). Before the suicide, the psychiatrist prescribed to kids several drugs, some of which weren’t approved by the FDA for use on children and had been linked to dangerous side effects, including an increased risk of suicide among children (back story).
As part of the follow-up, George Sheldon, who head’s Florida’s Department of Children and Families, wrote FDA commish Margaret Hamburg for info about any foster children who might have participated in clinical trials for psychotropic meds (read the letter) and asked the FDA to forbid foster kids from participating in these trials. Last month, the agency wrote back to say the agency does not agree with a “blanket prohibition” on enrolling foster children. Why? Such a policy fails to account for the greater risk of off-label prescribing and research involving children can yield benefits that cannot be obtained by tracking usage in adults, Jill Warner, acting associate commissioner for the FDA’s Special Medical Programs, wrote back (see here). Drugmakers, by the way, also have something at stake - they receive an extra six months of marketing exclusivity in return for having conducted the pediatric trials.
We asked Florida officials if they are rethinking their position. The answer? No way. The state is resolute. A department spokeswoman writes us to say this: “There is no impasse. While we appreciate the information provided by the Food and Drug Administration, the Department of Children and Families, not the FDA, is responsible for the protection of children in its care and takes those responsibilities extremely seriously. To that end, we have, by administrative procedures, prohibited the use of children in state care in clinical trials relating to the development of new psychotropic medications.
“Additionally, this Department’s operating procedure on ‘Institutional Oversight of Human Subject Research and Institutional Review Board Designation’ now further specifies: “At no time shall a child in the custody of the Department be allowed to participate in a clinical trial that is designed to develop new psychotropic medications or evaluate the suitability of providing medications previously approved for adults to children” (read more here). She adds that the department expects to send a formal response to the FDA in the “immediate future.” What do you think?
http://www.pharmalot.com/2010/07/florida-tells-fda-no-children-in-psychotropic-trials/
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