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Welcome to The Truth About Prone Restraint!
This site fully supports the least restrictive means of intervention and the professional judgment standard.
The restraint options being offered by the advocate community are not viable. When the truth be told, prone restraint is sometimes the least restrictive intervention. In these instances, the people and facilities that stepped up to protect a child, a patient, a son or daughter or the elderly should not be stigmatized, harassed or subjected to frivilous lawsuits.
Limiting the intervention tools has resulted in a "school to prison" pipeline as documented by the ACLU; and overuse of psychotropic drugs to medically treat what in many instances are environmental or behavioral issues. Good programs have closed because they can no longer maintain a safe environment, resulting out-of-state placement as well as the criminalization of youth because juvenile justice is the only place left for them to go.
THIS JUST IN
EXPERTS AGREE: Prone Restraint Does Not Lead To Suddent Death Due to Hypoxia
Six highly respected scientific experiments conclude that merely restraining an agitated person cannot possibly lead to significant hypoxia unless, there is some preexisting problems with central cardiac output, peripheral oxygen extraction, or oxygen utilization. Read More.
OVERDRUGGING CHILDREN AND SENIORS
Acording to Federal law and CMS regulations, the standard of intervention is the least restrictive intervention method necessary that is effective for safety and/or the least restrictive intervention necessary according to a professional judgment standard for treatment.
It is widely held that chemical restraint is much more invasive than physical restraint with much greater side effects, especially with children. Apparently the U.S. Department of Justice thinks so too. Drug maker Johnson & Johnson paid tens of millions of dollars in kickbacks to nursing home pharmacies in order to boost the sale of its drugs, says a Justice Department lawsuit.
Today, the nation's most vulnerable populations: seniors and children are often warehoused and mentally shackled with chemical restraints known as pharmaceuticals. The mass-drugging of senior citizens in nursing homes, and children in foster care has reached criminal proportions. One of the reasons for the rampant abuse is that Federal reimbursement programs promote the overuse of pharmaceuticals as it's easier to drug'm than to treat'm. Full Article.
The intervention & restraint options Advocates are offering are insufficient to maintain safety.
Advocates would have you believe that staff should never have to restrain a child on the floor or use prone restraint. This is nonsense.
Do Advocates have an ulterior motive?
CREATING THE PERFECT MARKETING/LOBBYING MACHINE: MENTAL HEALTH “ADVOCACY GROUPS” FUNDED BY PHARMA
The majority of the public may or may not be familiar with these so-called mental health advocacy organizations, such as the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), Children and Adults with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD) or the myriad of bipolar, depression or ADHD “support groups” that are inundating the internet.
But they need to be.
These are groups operating under the guise of advocates for the “mentally ill,” which in reality are heavily funded pharmaceutical front groups – lobbying and working on state and federal laws which effect the entire nation — from our elderly in nursing homes to our military, pregnant women, nursing mothers and school children. To put it simply, these groups are not what they appear to be. Yet their influence over legislation, lobbying, drug regulation (or lack thereof), and public relations campaigns is substantial and effects the entire nation. For they claim to be the voice of the “mentally ill.” But are they?
HOW IT ALL STARTED:
In the late 1970s and 1980s, prominent American Psychiatric Association (APA) psychiatrists, directors and researchers with the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) were in need of more government funding, and devised a plan to create a “growth of consumer and advocacy organizations”. In an incestuous relationship, many of these groups were formed by the directors or researchers from NIMH (NDRN and SAMHSA are no different) the very organization that needed mental health advocacy groups to make demands on Congress for increased funding. All of them had board or advisory board members with financial ties to Pharma and the majority of them were heavily funded by Pharma. So this was a brilliant marketing/lobbying strategy – Set up patients rights groups to lobby for the funding needed for psychiatry and big Pharma while claiming to be “advocates” for the mentally ill. More.
http://badpsych.com/2009/05/06/us-senate-probe-discovers-most-nami-money-is-from-psychiatric-drug-industry/#more-390
ACLU SUES NYC TO ELIMINATE THE SCHOOL TO PRISON PIPELINE
What is the school to prison pipeline? The “school-to-prison pipeline” refers to the policies and practices that push schoolchildren, especially the most at-risk children, out of classrooms and into the juvenile and criminal justice systems. How does this happen?
 Using police not teachers to manage behavior. Many under-resourced schools become pipeline gateways by placing increased reliance on police rather than teachers and administrators to maintain discipline. Growing numbers of districts employ school resource officers to patrol school hallways. As a result, children are far more likely to be subject to school-based arrests which has become the quickest route from the schoolhouse to the jailhouse.
Transferring students to alternative schools. Who are often then funneled into the juvenile justice system because the alternative school cannot manage these children in a less restrictive and more treatment oriented setting because they (or the licensing agency) has eliminated the tools staff and teachers need to maintain a safe environment.
Case in point. In 1998, the City of New York transferred the authority to oversee public school safety from the Board of Education to the New York City Police Department (NYPD). Today, the NYPD has assigned more than 5,200 School Safety Officers (SSOs) in addition to nearly 200 armed police officers to patrol New York City public schools. By transferring enforcement of behavioral issues from teachers to police, minor student misbehavior is now being criminalized.
D.C. DIVISION FOR YOUTH REHABILITATIVE SERVICES ACCUSED OF PRESCRIBING SEROQUEL AS A SLEEP AID FOR CHILDREN
Seroquel is a powerful anti-psychotic drug prescribed for people with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. On the streets it's called Susie Q, Squirrel or Quell. At D.C. Youth Rehabilitative Services (DYRS) it's called a sleeping pill. Story. Story. Story.
When the city's director of youth rehabilitation services, Vincent N. Schiraldi, said he was going to change the culture of D.C.'s Youth Rehabilitative services to one that's more therapeutic -- we didn't think he meant putting the kids on powerful anti-psychotic drugs for sleep and mood disorders.
See also SSRI (Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors) Stories. This website is a collection of 3400+ news stories with full media article availability mainly criminal in nature. SSRI Stories.
What you can do
National Mental Health and Disability Groups are receiving and being investigated for receiving up to 56% of their budget from pharmaceutical companies.
The federal False Claims Act, authorizes individual citizens to bring fraud actions on behalf of the Government. These cases are also called "whistleblower suits" or "qui tam," actions, and those who file them are entitled to a share in the recovery. It is estimated that there is over $2 Billion in such fraudulent Medicaid claims being paid by the Government every year in Foster and Juvenile Facilities.
Under the False Claims Act, a penalty of between $5,500 and $11,000 is assessed for each false claim in addition to triple the damages suffered by the government where each false prescription could represent a false claim.
Contact us for more information.
National Disability Rights Network's Report Represents Only One Side Of The Issue of Restraint & Seclusion in Schools
According to the National Center for Education Statistics for 2003-4 there were over 130,000 K-12 schools nationwide. Between 1997 and 2001, there were approximately 1.3 million reports where teachers were victims to nonfatal crimes at school. On average, in each year from 1997-2001, about 21 out of every 1,000 teachers were victims of violent crime at school. (These numbers are estimated to be under-reported 20-80%). Students between the ages of 12 and 18 were victims of about 764,000 violent crimes annually (These numbers are estimated to be under-reported 20-80%)
The 100 or so incidences of potentially abusive uses of seclusion and restraint documented in NDRN’s Report span over at least a decade long period and include non-school incidents. The Report gives examples of improper use of restraint and seclusion, but fails to give actual statistics. Most teachers are not in the classroom to abuse children. The Report also fails to integrate the use of restraint and seclusion with the overall issue of how to keep children safe in what is an unsafe world. Read More.
Also see http://www.stoppingschoolviolence.com.
States using prone restraint*
Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa (except schools), Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland (except residential), Massachusetts (except MH), Michigan (except schools - this is by school policy - there is no legislative ban), Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey (except DD), New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon (except residential), Pennsylvania (except schools), Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Washington D.C., West Virginia, Wyoming
*If we are incorrect on our information, please email us the legislation and we will correct the list.
Courts are ruling that prone restraint bans are ILLEGAL!
Laws governing restraint usage: 5th & 14th Amendments - Equal Protection and Self Defense
There is a principal that underlies the very foundation of this country which can be found in the 5th and 14th Amendments of the United States Constitution as well as the Declaration of Independence, State's constitutions and laws. This principal is that everyone is equal under the law and that everyone is entitled to equal protection under the law. Human services providers, educators and the other students and clients deserve the same rights as every other citizen as long as the manner of intervention is least restrictive, effective and reasonable. Click here for more information on restraint law.
Training programs that do not teach a takedown method or floor restraint have effectively shifted most of their liability to you.
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