Psychiatrist arrested for issuing illegal prescriptions
After watching “Medicated Child” i started to wonder why would anyone willing over medicate such an innocent person, giving families the false perception that something is wrong with their loved ones and false hope that it will be better. When in reality all you are doing is creating the problem to begin with. To me the answer seemed clear…money, but i didnt want to believe someone can be so selfish. Unfortunately it is true. Seen in this article an 84 year old psychiatrist was prescribing an extremely high amount of Oxycodone which is a drug commonly used to get high. This shows why in the documentary “The medicated child” the doctors were so quick to prescribe the children more and more money because instead of finding the best alternative they just want to make money. One thing that disturbed me the most was in this article it says that undercover agents were able to go in to her office talk for about 10 minutes and leave with a prescription of 90 pills of oxycodone when in fact there was nothing wrong at all. The article also says that she made a daily total of two to three thousand dollars and had over three million dollars in various bank accounts all from illegally prescribing drugs. This shows that you dont need to fit the typical criminal stereotype to be a criminal. Even the ones we trust to keep us safe can turn out to be criminals for the right price.
