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.
When Vincent N. Schiraldi took over he said he would change DYRS from corrections to rehabilitative. He took away staff's tools to maintain discipline and safety. He started threatening and bringing staff up on false indication (abuse charges). DYRS administration told staff not to put their hands on the children, so the children started running the place, and assaulting staff. When the youths escaped, DYRS administration blamed staff for not stopping the children -- even though it was the administration that told them not to intervene.
The staff then leaked to the press that the administration was prescribing anti-psychotic drugs to the children as a method of sedation.
National Mental Health and Disability Groups are receiving and being investigated for receiving up to 56% of their budget from pharmaceutical companies. Administration is falsely touting a "rehabilitative" environment because instead of there being a consequence for bad behavior where youths might actually learn the difference between socially acceptable v. socially unacceptable behavior -- in D.C. DYRS -- the youth's bad behavior results in a reward. Anti-psychotic drugs are the 21st century equivalent of a cigarrette where these ill-suited prescription drugs are coveted as valuable commodities by the youths.
DYRS has a disproportionate number of disadvantaged youths at its facilities. This "treatment" or "rehabilitation" plan as implemented by D.C. DYRS and its chief Vincent Schiraldi and indirectly paid for by the American taxpaying public is the worst form of social elitism. Colbert I. King an afro-american op-ed columist for the Washington Post -is right on the money calling this a class/elitist situation.
"[These are] social services elites who believe the world can be made lovable for dispossessed people of color as long as the elites are calling the shots."
What you can do:
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, if any. It is estimated that there is over $2 Billion in such fraudulent Medicaid claims being paid by the Government every year in Juvenile and Foster care environments alone.
Whoever leaked the information regarding false prescription for kids might have a whistleblower lawsuit that 1. gives you a right to recovery of 10-25% of what the government recovers, and 2. you get Federal whistleblower protection meaning that the powers that be cannot retaliate as you are protected by Federal Law.
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.
A massive brawl took place outside a Brentwood school began just after summer classes let out, leaving four students seriously hurt. The police were called to stop the violence. Jhosef Amarillo, 17, of Brentwood, was stabbed in the side and suffered liver damage. Adrianna Grant, 16, of Bay Shore, and Tevin Foster, 15, of Brentwood, also were stabbed. Shaquille Wilson, 16, was hit in the head with what police believe to be a pipe.
Hope the police were told not to use prone restraint on the “children” holding the knives. Full Story.
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