DST 500 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Mental Disorder, Medical Model, Atypical Antipsychotic

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Disability Studies
• Course: DST 500
• Professor: Jenna Reid

Document Summary

Labelled as disruptive, with oppsitional disorder vs parents who thought she was spirited and argumentative. Father refused to take her to state mental facility, was placed in emergency custody. Restrained 26+ times, medicated with 12+ drugs over 9 months, kept from family contact for 5 months. Involuntary commitment in texas has extra hazard = aggressive drug regimens that feature new and controversial drugs - regimens promoted by drug companies, mandated by state govts, imposed on captive patient population. Past: drugs marketed to doctors via ads and journals. Now: from 1990s onwards, drugs marketed to state officials governing. Later: drugs marketed to consumers via tv/magazines prescribing for big systems like state mental hospitals, prisons, govt-funded clinics. Companies fund implementation of guidelines re: what drugs for what conditions, // to guidelines for treatment of diabetes/heart disease. Newest, expensive drugs are to be used first in treatment of schizo, bipolar, depression.