VANITY MORALES - 13 yo - Homestead FL

The Miami-Dade Schools Police Department is asking your help searching for a 13-year-old girl.




Vanity Morales was last seen in front of Campbell Drive Middle School
on NE 23 Avenue in Homestead, where she is a student. She was standing
by the bus stop at 4 p.m. wearing a school uniform: a red polo shirt
and khaki pants.

Vanity has dark brown hair and light green eyes. She is bi-polar and
has attempted suicide in the past. She has not taken her medication for
two days.

If you have any information about this missing child, please contact Detective Claudia Bertrand at (305) 995-COPS.

WTH is going on with all these young people being medicated for Bi-polar? The case of missing 13 year old child Destiny Llaguno just next to this thread is on medication for Bi-polar too. Then there's the Riley children. Here's an interesting article about it. Note that since a Harvard psychiatrist stated that young children can be bipolar, the number of children diagnosed has increased 40 times. He will not disclose whether he's had any payments from drug companies. I've never heard of any young child being diagnosed bipolar in New Zealand. A lot of people are making a lot of money out of this and it stinks to high heaven IMO. Please write to your Senator.

BOSTON (Reuters) -
The number of children aged 2 to 5 who have been diagnosed with bipolar
disorder and prescribed powerful antipsychotic drugs has doubled over
the past decade, according to research released on Friday.
The research suggests that while it is still rare to prescribe powerful
psychiatric drugs to 2-year-olds, the practice is becoming more
frequent.The data, compiled from
2000 to 2007, and published in the Journal of the American Academy of
Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, could inform testimony at the
upcoming Boston-area murder trials of the parents of 4-year-old Rebecca
Riley. The girl died of an overdose of mood-stabilizing medication in
2006.A Boston child psychiatrist,
Kayoko Kifuji, diagnosed Riley with bipolar disorder and attention
deficit hyperactivity disorder when she was 30 months old, and placed
her on several powerful drugs: Depakote, an antiseizure medication also
used for bipolar disorder, and clonidine, a blood pressure medication.Kifuji's
testimony may be crucial to the fate of Michael and Carolyn Riley, who
face first-degree murder charges. A grand jury and a review by the
state's medical licensing board cleared the doctor of wrongdoing.Prosecutors
claim the Rileys deliberately overmedicated their daughter to subdue
her. The couple say they were following Kifuji's instructions and their
daughter died of pneumonia.The
case has shone the spotlight again on a debate within the psychiatric
profession about whether bipolar disorder can be diagnosed in very
young children and whether it is wise to prescribe powerful medications.BIPOLAR TODDLERS?Bipolar
disorder, characterized by severe mood swings, was once thought to
emerge only during adolescence or later. But Dr. Joseph Biederman, a
child psychiatrist at Harvard University, transformed views on the
subject by arguing that children could have the disorder at extremely
young ages.He is credited with
spearheading a more than 40-fold increase in the number of children
diagnosed with bipolar disorder over the past decade.Biederman
was accused in 2008 by Republican U.S. Senator Charles Grassley of
failing to fully disclose payments by drug companies, including some
that produced medication for bipolar disorder. Biederman declined to be
interviewed about the latest study."The
psychiatric diagnosis of very young children is anything but an exact
science," said Harry Tracy, a psychologist and publisher of
NeuroInvestment, a monthly publication specializing in central nervous
system disorders."Such disparate
causes as ADHD, depression, bipolar disorder, sexual abuse, and family
dysfunction can produce very similar symptoms in a toddler."The
report's author, Mark Olfson, professor of clinical psychiatry at
Columbia University, said about 1.5 percent of all privately insured
children between the ages of 2 and 5, or one in 70 children, received
some sort of psychotropic drug -- whether an antipsychotic, a mood
stabilizer, a stimulant or an antidepressant -- in 2007.If
a child is diagnosed with bipolar disorder between the ages of 2 and 5,
about half are prescribed an antipsychotic, such as Eli Lilly &
Co's Zyprexa, AstraZeneca Plc's Seroquel, and Johnson & Johnson's
Risperdal. They are prescribed to about one in 3,000 2-year-olds,
according to his report."There
might be a role for these drugs but only after you've tried other
interventions, with the parents, or with the parents and child
together, but that is not happening when you examine the billing
records," Olfson said.(Additional reporting by Toni Clarke; Editing by Peter Cooney)

I think that it is a disgrace to give any 2 year these drugs. How could they even diagnose a 2 yr old with this disease. All two yr olds that I know act hyper sometimes and have mood swings and tantrums. that does not mean that they are bipolar...FGS, they are 2....doesnt anybody ever remember about the "terrible twos".....these psychiatrists are definitely in it for the $$$$.....they should be ashamed of themselves.

Police have reported that Vanity Morales has been found. The Homestead
teenager was reported missing Friday, after last being seen by a bus
stop in the afternoon.

Miami-Dade Schools Police reported that the 13-year-old was last seen
in front of Campbell Drive Middle School on NE 23 Avenue in Homestead,
where she is a student. She was standing by the bus stop at 4 p.m.
wearing a school uniform: a red polo shirt and khaki pants.

Later Saturday they reported she was found safe, but no details were offered as to her disappearance.