Dr. Joseph Biederman has been controversial in the world of child psychiatry for years, due to his “pushing” diagnoses of, and medication for, childhood bipolar disorder. Now we’re learning more about how much he’s been paid by Johnson & Johnson to peddle Risperdal, and campaign for a Risperdal-friendly research center at Massachusetts General Hospital.
In case you’re not familiar with the degree of the baleful influence of Dr. Biedderman on child psychiatry, his work helped to fuel a fortyfold increase from 1994 to 2003 in the diagnosis of pediatric bipolar disorder, and parallel explosion in the use of Risperdal and other powerful medications that, we now know, can cause permanent damage to children.
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