Think about Dr Benbow's analogy for a second.
Now tell me what it must have been like for children during the second world war - they managed didn't they? Their dad's were away fighting the cause, many of them were evacuated and living in the countryside with 'new' parents. That is a child who is deeply troubled - where were the drugs then?
I'd like to make my own analogy and I'd compare it to the very same one Benbow used, although mine is somewhat less than callous.
There are two fields that have recently been fenced off to protect the children that play in them. Unbeknown to the children and their parents one of the fields is surrounded by an electrical fence. The obvious happens, a small child touches the electrical fence and dies as a result. The field owner denies any liability, he was unaware [he claims] that an electric fence could cause the death of a child who touched it. Field regulators put warnings on electrical fences, the signs warn the children that touching the fence may result in death. They also tell the field owner's ticket agents that they should not sell any more tickets to people under the age of 18... but they can do so if they think playing within the electrified perimeter will benefit the child.
Off-label electrocution.
There will be more and more children allowed inside that perimeter because third party agents [doctor's] have been given the go ahead by the regulator.
It's a simple analogy when you look at it. As absurd as the electrical fence scenario goes, it's basically what off-label prescribing to minors is all about. If we, as parents stand by and continue to let this happen then we are all as guilty as the field owner.
I'll bet in less than three years there will be a shooting in a British classroom, the same classroom that Benbow so loosely spoke of when comparing suicidality in children given Seroxat. The next kid who walks into a classroom in the UK with a gun and blasts away his teacher and friends will be deemed to have a disorder, the only disorder he may have would have been created by greedy pharmaceutical companies who lobotomize young brains with chemicals for an illness that they invented.
I want to be in a classroom in a second world war Britain. I want to witness for myself how children coped. Maybe then I will have an answer for doctors or maybe, just maybe, common sense will prevail and these SSRi type drugs will be outlawed not only in children but in adults too.
Our children have a right to live a life, women have a right to rear children - studies coming to light will show that women of child rearing ages and their future fetus could possibly be in danger by taking these drugs. If pharma ain't drugging our children they are stopping the process of life itself.
And that, by anyone's standards, is a despicable act of depravity.
Bob Fiddaman
Author of Seroxat Sufferers
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