Another great article by Evelyn Pringle
On April 21, 2009, the Miami Herald reported that a 7-year-old boy in Florida, Gabriel Myers, had committed suicide by hanging himself with a detachable shower head in a bathroom of the foster care home he was placed in three weeks earlier.
All total, the Herald found the child had been given the ADHD drug Vyvanse, the antidepressant Lexapro, the atypical antipsychotic, Zyprexa, and Symbyax, a drug that contains both Prozac and Zyprexa.
The most appalling part of this story is that Dr Sohail Punjwani, the shrink who was supposedly treating Gabriel, told the Herald that he did not even recall the boy.
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OMG! Poor kid. His poor parents. What a terible tragedy.
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My son recently graduated High School. A gifted musician and singer, and a B+ to A student, he had the normal "issues that seniors have, in addition to the recent death of a close friend and the anxiety of going to College - so his concentration was not 100%. He graduated with numerous awards and scholarships, and was to move on. His "concentration problem" was diagnosed as ADHD, and not just a normal ocurrence for a high school senior who is overhwelmed (after all, ALL kids going through a tough period MUST have ADHD).Prior to graduating, he began losing weight and obsessing over it, losing 60 pounds in 5 months, became agressive, quit his summer job, decided not to go to college, began breaking things in the house,putting his fist through walls, began threatening people, mentioned suicide on more than one occassion, could not sleep, and lost his entire personality, which was laid back and even comical at times before that. Everyone loved him. Even his friends noticed the change and thought he was sick. 2 weeks ago, he trashed the house to the point that the police had to be called and he was taken to a mental health facility, which was heartbreaking to see. PRIOR TO THIS, A NEUROLOGIST, A PSYCHIATRIST AND A GENERAL PRACTITIONER SIMULTANEOUSLY DENIED THAT THE VYVANSE COULD HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO ANY OF THIS BEHAVIOR. They just kept changing the dose. After 2 weeks off the Vyvanse, he is back to his old self, but with no job and not in College, thinking he has ruined his life, and the Doctors are still saying the VYVANSE had nothing to do with it. This drug is DANGEROUS, especially if it can turn what people always said was the "nicest kid they ever knew" into a monster in a matter of months.
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