Comments on: SSRI’s – To ban or not to ban… http://www.joanslow.com/posts/2004/ssri-controversy/ Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:41:57 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Janet Sisk http://www.joanslow.com/posts/2004/ssri-controversy/comment-page-1/#comment-243 Janet Sisk Mon, 01 May 2006 16:31:12 +0000 http://joanslow.com/?p=27#comment-243 SSRI's can and do cause side effects/adverse reactions in a small percentage of people. Reports of harm to self and harm to others do exist . Many children are serving 30 years to life for crimes committed while having adverse reactions to these SSRI's. I ask you to Please view and add your name in support for new legisaltion for our first offending children 14 and under. One major ammendment to this bill is that children under the age of 14 can not be tried as an adult for a crime committed while on a prescribed mind altering medication. It is called Christopher’s Bill (The Juvenile Justice Reform Act ). Christopher's Bill was written after the conviction of 12 year old Christopher Pittman of South Carolina. Christopher Pittman age 12 at the time,killed his grandparents while having an adverse reaction to 200 mgs. a day of Zoloft.Christopher was given Paxil and then Zoloft without the required 2 week washout period needed to cleanse his body. Paxil and Zoloft are SSRI's and do not interact with each other. And are not approved for children 18 and under. He was tried and sentenced to 30 years without the possibility of parole. His case will be heard in the South Carolina Supreme Court soon. I have worked with Christopher and his family for the past 2 years .Christopher is a wonderful child and should have never been tried as an adult. Christopher's Bill is a common sense Bill only putting into place protections for young children and for parents as well. Many parents are not aware that when a child is waived up to adult court at any age as young as 10 to date, you will lose all parental rights to your child.Christopher's Bill puts protections in place for you as the parent to protect your child. Please sign the attached petition on the bill .This purposed bill has been taken to Washington DC for review as a federal bill and is also being delivered throughout this nation to state legislators to conform to their state laws . http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/429258617?ltl=1114901126 We must begin a change and offer our youngest of first offending children every opportunity for rehabiltation and counseling. Whatever your opinion on the SSRI issues and their dangerous side effects to children and adults , when you speak of your own children at 12 years old .They are a child, your child. For more information , please visit: www.juvenilejusticefoundation.com Janet Sisk/ Founder / JJFC Contact : jsisk@juvenilejusticefoundation.com SSRI’s can and do cause side effects/adverse reactions in a small percentage of people. Reports of harm to self and harm to others do exist . Many children are serving 30 years to life for crimes committed while having adverse reactions to these SSRI’s. I ask you to

Please view and add your name in support for new legisaltion for our first offending children 14 and under. One major ammendment to this bill is that children under the age of 14 can not be tried as an adult for a crime committed while on a prescribed mind altering medication.

It is called Christopher’s Bill (The Juvenile Justice Reform Act ).

Christopher’s Bill was written after the conviction of 12 year old Christopher Pittman of South Carolina.

Christopher Pittman age 12 at the time,killed his grandparents while having an adverse reaction to 200 mgs. a day of Zoloft.Christopher was given Paxil and then Zoloft without the required 2 week washout period needed to cleanse his body. Paxil and Zoloft are SSRI’s and do not interact with each other. And are not approved for children 18 and under.

He was tried and sentenced to 30 years without the possibility of parole.

His case will be heard in the South Carolina Supreme Court soon. I have worked with Christopher and his family for the past 2 years .Christopher is a wonderful child and should have never been tried as an adult.

Christopher’s Bill is a common sense Bill only putting into place protections for young children and for parents as well. Many parents are not aware that when a child is waived up to adult court at any age as young as 10 to date, you will lose all parental rights to your child.Christopher’s Bill puts protections in place for you as the parent to protect your child.

Please sign the attached petition on the bill .This purposed bill has been taken to Washington DC for review as a federal bill and is also being delivered throughout this nation to state legislators to conform to their state laws .

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/429258617?ltl=1114901126

We must begin a change and offer our youngest of first offending children every opportunity for rehabiltation and counseling.

Whatever your opinion on the SSRI issues and their dangerous side effects to children and adults , when you speak of your own children at 12 years old .They are a child, your child.

For more information , please visit: http://www.juvenilejusticefoundation.com

Janet Sisk/ Founder / JJFC

Contact : jsisk@juvenilejusticefoundation.com

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