Feds Sentence Novartis For Drugging Kids

Trileptal is a common drug that was readily prescribed to foster children and other low income children for false claims and false diagnoses.  Novartis paid off doctors to ghostwrite reports to drug kids.

Children in foster care are still being prescribed Trileptal as mood stabilizers and not was it was approved for.  Someone needs to ask Maura Corrigan about this.
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Sentenced For Off-Label Drug Marketing

DOJ Makes Novartis Pay $420 Million For Kiddy Kickback Scheme

I cringe when I see the growing list of pharmaceutical corporations that not only drugged kids for cash, but drugged the entire industry of child welfare to believe that it was a good thing for kids.

When you look at the national statistics, you will see a category labeled as " physical neglect".  Physical neglect has 12 codes assigned to break down the different categories for purposes of research studies.
There are two specific codes which address issues of medical neglect:

1. Refusal to allow or provide needed care for diagnosed condition or impairment.
2. Unwarranted delay or failure to seek needed care

TRANSLATION: When a parent refuses psychotropic medication to the child, this constitutes medical neglect, a reportable condition to increase the national statistics of child abuse and neglect, and grounds for removal.

This is a classic Title IV-E funding training technique (usually billing at the improper higher rate of 75%) where a Child Welfare Worker will use the tactic of performing an Axis III diagnosis, without medical license, to support the placement of the child in foster care and to automatically classify the child as special needs, accessing Targeted Case Management funding benefits called kiddy kickbacks.

Novartis resolves its own kiddy kickback liabilities, generated from Social Securitydollars while the States child welfare systems continue its pattern of practice of promoting the drugging of children.

Trileptal is a commonly prescribed as a psychotropic drug for foster children.

Wolverine Human Services of Michigan uses this drug liberally with foster children.

Here are two physicians who participated in the illegal and wrongful marketing of Trileptal.

Demitri and Janice Papolos

Trileptal Illegal Marketing Material