Are kids are being held hostage to benefit Big Pharma?

The risk children face who become wards of the state — even temporarily — of being used in medical experiments is something you may not have heard of before.

But it’s going on all the time, all over the country.

Currently, the NIH website lists over 14,000 clinical trials that involve children.

Not all are being conducted in the U.S., but it’s obvious that there’s a big need for kids to use in these studies.

But where do these kids come from? I mean, what parent would offer up their child to test a dangerous drug on?

Very few, if any. And that’s why these researchers are so eager to “snatch” kids and use them as guinea pigs in their experiments.

Here are just a few examples of the trials going on in just one hospital, Cincinnati Children’s:

• The hospital is looking for children 7 to 11 to study a new (unnamed) medication for attention deficit disorder.
• Kids 7 to 12 “with” ADHD are needed to test a drug called atomoxetine. Researchers want to see if they can predict “how well this medicine will work.” Atomoxetine is one of those very risky mind-altering meds that can cause “suicidal thoughts or actions,” liver damage and “sudden death.”
• A trial for kids 5 to 17 with autism to study the “investigational” drug acamprosate to see if it “reduces the symptoms associated with autism.” Acamprosate is a heavy-duty, risky drug used to treat alcoholics! And this hospital wants to give it to five-year-olds!
• Kids 7 to 11 who are depressed are needed to study fluoxetine — more commonly known as Prozac. Fluoxetine can also cause thoughts of suicide, “hostility,” and “thoughts of self-harm or harm to others.” And that’s just the short list.

Remember, that’s only a sample of the drug trials going on at just one hospital!

And in Boston, where Justina Pelletier was “abducted,” The Boston Globe reported five other cases of children being taken into custody and receiving state-authorized medical “treatments.”

Look, it’s bad enough that kids are prescribed dangerous drugs by their own doctors.

But to think of little children being held hostage and then used to benefit Big Pharma is almost too horrible to comprehend.

Sources:
“Justina’s Law: Protecting foster children from medical child abuse” Lynne Vogel, Dail Kos, cchrint.org