I'm a MadMother and I support the Sheller, P.C. Citizen Petition

This is the comment I left in support of Stephen Sheller's petition to immediately Revoke the Pediatric Indication for Risperdal® all Generic Version of Risperidone, and Invega®:

Risperdal was illegally marketed almost from the time it was FDA approved. It was prescribed to my son in 1995 to treat behavior problems he had. His diagnoses were PTSD and Left Temporal Lobe Epilepsy. He had been beat up and locked in a closet while in State care when he was three years old. Instead of the recommended treatment, he was given Risperdal which caused many adverse effects including causing visual problems. He was no longer able to read without a great deal of difficulty, and was given an additional diagnosis of Oppositional Defiant Disorder. The drugs caused him to no longer like the same foods and caused him to crave high fat foods which caused him to gain weight. It never treated the behavioral problems it was prescribed for. Eventually, he ended up in the State's psychiatric facility for children and was used in drug trials without Informed Consent in spite of my vehement protests. The federally funded researcher repeatedly told me I had no say in what he was doing to my son. My son was disabled as a result of the "treatment" he received from a so called expert in childhood schizophrenia. The researcher excluded the Left Temporal Epilepsy by removing the diagnosis from my son's medical record. The treatment my son received from a NIMH funded researcher, Jon McClellan, broke State, Federal, and International Laws and left my son disabled. Neuroleptic drugs are teratogens, just like the drugs which are used to treat cancer are teratogens.  Drugs that cause so many adverse effects including disability and death should not be prescribed off label to children. The fact that prescribers are not required to report adverse events including fatalities means we are not even counting how many children are disabled like my son, or how many are killed as a direct result of taking Risperdal. The betrayal of trust is overwhelming. Please revoke the pediatric approval for Risperdal and help prevent countless childhood iatrogenic disabilities and fatalities.
Sheller, P.C. - Citizen Petition

Agency: FDA
Document ID: FDA-2012-P-0857-0001
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