Friday, September 28, 2007

60 Minutes on Rebecca Riley and Bipolar Prescriptions

In a run up to their Sunday 60 Minutes show, Katie Couric had a news story to night on the tragic psychiatric drugging death of Rebecca Riley. As seen in this report/ press release We will have to see if this is an honest investigation, or free advertising for the drug companies. The online video seems to indicate that this is a damage control news item for the drug companies.

A mother charged with murder for what she claims was medicating a child diagnosed as bipolar, says her dead four-year-old daughter probably wasn't suffering from the disorder after all.

In her first interview, Carolyn Riley tells her story to Katie Couric for a report on the increase of bipolar diagnoses in children to be broadcast this Sunday, Sept. 29, at 7:30 p.m. ET, 7:00 p.m. PT, on 60 Minutes.

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It's estimated today that one million youngsters in the U.S. have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, which was once thought to affect only adults. Couric's story explores this phenomenon by talking to parents of diagnosed children and to doctors like Dr. Joseph Biederman, head of pediatric psychopharmacology at Boston’s Massachusetts General Hospital.

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