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Minister for Child Safety Must Act to Prevent Ritalin Abuse
The Queensland Party spokesman for Child Safety, Family and
Communities, Ron Wadforth, today said that the Minister for Child
Safety and Sport must restore Queenslander’s confidence that
children in state care are being appropriately treated by
implementing measures to ensure that children are not being
administered Ritalin against the manufacturers’ safety
regulations.
“The Minister must address concerns about Ritalin, commonly known
as 'kiddie cocaine', which is being administered to children in
foster care with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
against the manufacturer’s safety guidelines. Surely, to protect
both the children and the Department, the Minister should ensure
that children in state-care are not prescribed medication in
violation of safety guidelines.”
“The Minister for Child Safety and Sport put the responsibility
back onto the shoulders of health professionals. It’s frightening
enough to think that paediatricians and doctors are ignoring
labels, but the fact of the matter is foster children are in the
state’s care and our government writes the policies and sets the
boundaries, not health professionals.”
"I don’t know that any parents would accept their children being
administered Ritalin against manufacturers’ advice but it seems
that the Minister is happy to unquestioningly accept that
children under his responsibility should be administered these
powerful drugs against safety directives.”
“Queensland’s foster children are not guinea pigs and failure to
ensure that drugs are not being over-prescribed or wrongly
prescribed means the Government is failing in its duty of
care.”
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Publish Date: 25 Jul 11
GPO Box 1304, Brisbane Qld 4001, Queensland Wide
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It is way too easy to dress up rhetorical statements in a way that insinuates that there is a problem that does not exist. Maybe that abuse of journalistic power should be investigated.
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