Drug Research Targets Children, Researcher Under Investigation

Children need the protection of all adults, all institutions. When it comes to drug research we all want the same things. Safe, effective drugs that will heal our children when they are sick or keep them healthy and protect them from illness and disease.
Drug research for adults has had its problems. Researchers have taken money from drug companies and then published studies showing how good the drugs are - without letting anyone know they had been paid by the drug company. Now that same problem has occurred with a Psychiatrist at Harvard who has published studies advocating the use of a particular drug company's psychotropic drugs with children.  He was paid $1.6 million dollars by Johnson & Johnson over a 6 year period. He reported only $200,000 of that income to Harvard.  Why? If his research was solid why compromise it by hiding payments made by a drug company? The problem now is that his research is suspect, and children who might have benefited from good, ethical research will have to wait.  For more information, click here.