Terrorists could use the potentially deadly Anthrax bacteria on an attack against the United States, and there is plenty of vaccine stockpiled for use against this and other possible biological agents of warfare. However they have never been tested on children so the effectiveness and possible side effects of the vaccines are unknown in children.
The diagnosing of millions of children with ADHD in order to medicate them with stimulants and other psychoactive chemicals is an American tragedy, growing into a worldwide catastrophe. Never before in history has a society attempted to deal with its children by drugging a significant portion of them into conformity while failing to meet their needs in the home, school and society. The ethical scientist or physician, the concerned parent or teacher, must feel stricken with grief and dumbfounded that we have allowed the interests of powerful advocacy groups to completely override the interests of our children.
Formal training in parenting strategies is a low-risk, effective method for improving behavior in preschool-age children at risk for developing attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), while there is less evidence supporting the use of medications for children younger than 6 years old, according to a new report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
Dr. Claudia M. Gold is a pediatrician and author of "Keeping Your Child in Mind: Overcoming Defiance, Tantrums and Other Everyday Behavior Problems by Seeing the World Through Your Child's Eyes."
The Obama administration is wrestling with the thorny question of whether scientists should inject healthy children with the anthrax vaccine to see whether the shots would safely protect them against a bioterrorism attack.
A committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is set to decide today whether to recommend routinely vaccinating boys and young men against sexually transmitted forms of human papillomavirus, the cause of most cervical and anal cancers as well as most mouth and throat cancers.
11% of Americans aged 12 and up now take an antidepressant medication, though less than one third of them have seen a mental-health professional in the past year.
There is an issue of utmost urgency, to which I would like to draw your attention and invite you to look into it. It concerns the psychiatric drugging of our children.
With psychiatric and mood disorders in children a national concern, early detection and treatment can prevent deadly tragedies like the Arizona shooting, but there’s a startling lack of awareness, says Alizah Salario.
A study, Recent Trends in Stimulant Medication Use Among US Children finds, surprisingly, that 3.5% of kids under 18 got stimulants, vs. 2.4% in 1996. Holy crap!! The reason this is surprising is that 3.5% is about 10x smaller than I thought it was. American Journal of Psychiatry? Did I move to Romania?
Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) can now be diagnosed in children as young as 4 and as old as 18, according to the nation's largest organization of pediatricians.
Gov. Jerry Brown has waded into the national debate over child vaccinations for sexually transmitted diseases, signing into law a bill allowing children as young as 12 to get vaccinated without their parents' consent.
New guidelines for mental illness turn shyness in children from a personality trait into a mental disorder that warrants drug treatment. Drug companies already target children, who fidget too much in class or have trouble concentrating on their homework, with stimulant drugs for treating attention deficit disorder. Now children who sit too quietly or are more withdrawn than their peers will also be targeted with medication for social anxiety disorder or depression.
Five-year-old Max came to see me in my pediatrics practice because his kindergarten teachers were convinced that he had ADHD. They knew little about his life, yet they were pressuring his mother, Alice, to come to me in the hopes that I would prescribe medication, because his behavior in class was increasingly disruptive. Alice came to the first visit armed with the standard forms, indicating that he had scored in the high range for ADHD.
The headline from the Winnipeg Free Press in Canada tells the story: "Judge Says Prozac Factor in Teen Murder." Provincial court judge Robert Heinrich listened to my testimony as a psychiatric expert on behalf of the defense and weighed it against that of a Canadian psychiatrist brought in by the prosecution.
There was a legal victory Thursday for the Detroit woman once involved in a standoff with police over medical treatment for her sick child. A judge ruled that Maryanne Godboldo should be reunited with her 13-year-old daughter, Ariana.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control, which has been comprehensively exposed as a vaccine propaganda organization promoting the interests of drug companies, is now engaged in a household surveillance program that involves calling U.S. households and intimidating parents into producing child immunization records. As part of what it deems a National Immunization Survey (NIS), the CDC is sending letters to U.S. households, alerting them that they will be called by "NORC at the University of Chicago" and that households should "have your child's immunization records handy when answering our questions." (See copies of the letter, below.)
Millions of children have been put on antipsychotic drugs since 2009 alone. The number of children on these pharmaceuticals is becoming so astronomical that the U.S. pediatric health advisers are now speaking out against the known and unknown dangers of such widespread drugging of children nationwide. Doctors have become so eager to prescribe these drugs to patients that half of all citizens in the United States will be diagnosed with a mental illness within their lifetime. What is even more nonsensical about the explosion in prescription antipsychotics is that there is hardly any scientific data to show that the drugs are effective at treating what they claim to, while there is significant amounts of research linking antipsychotics to suicide, diabetes, weight gain, decreased life expectancy, and triggering an array of metabolic conditions.
The use of stimulant medications such as Ritalin or Adderall in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is continuing to climb, although at a slower pace than in decades past, a new study finds.
The use of prescription stimulants to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in kids has increased steadily over the last decade, according to a new study.
The State of Florida has been ordering juvenile inmates within the states facilities to be drugged with adult doses of anti-psychotics, creating a tranquilizing affect. Some are guessing the pills are used to save on prison guards due to budget cuts.
During a recent conversation with friends and family, the topic of ADHD / ADD came up and I shared my belief that this is not a disease that should result in people being drugged, but instead a personality type (like mine!) that should be honored. My friends and family looked at me stunned. They wondered how an educator like me didn’t know better as this new epidemic was clearly documented as a disease. I then found out that a few of those among us had been drugged or had been responsible for drugging their children. They were offended by my words! Fortunately, I'm used to this.
U.S. pediatric health advisers on Thursday urged drug regulators to continue studying weight gain and other side-effects of antipsychotic drugs as they are increasingly taken by children.
U.S. pediatric health advisers on Thursday urged drug regulators to continue studying weight gain and other side-effects of antipsychotic drugs as they are increasingly taken by children.
As the sun rises over Phoenix, 4-year-old Shelby wakes. She sleepily uses the potty, dutifully washes her hands, and then accepts a white capsule from her mother, Victoria*. (*Last name has been withheld.)
In a striking move, Australian businessman and father of a Gardasil injured girl, Stephen Tunley matched University of Pennsylvania bioethicist, Dr. Art Caplan’s $10,000 reward for ‘proof of Bachmann vaccine claims.’
No vaccination, no school. At least that's what several California students are being told. Middle and high school students, are being turned away from admission because they have not received a required whooping cough vaccination.
I remember it clearly… I was sitting on the front row at Monday night’s CNN/Tea Party debate and got a great look at Michele Bachmann when she unleashed a line of attacks against Rick Perry. Bachmann had several big moments, but the most notable was her stance on Perry’s HPV Vaccination vote.
The recent intoxication death of a 5-month-old boy from a common antihistamine has drawn attention to the common yet controversial practice of giving children medications to help them sleep.
A study of more than 400 children diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder has found a link between the children's routine play settings and the severity of their symptoms, researchers report. Those who regularly play in outdoor settings with lots of green (grass and trees, for example) have milder ADHD symptoms than those who play indoors or in built outdoor environments, the researchers found. The association holds even when the researchers controlled for income and other variables.
A group of researchers from the University of Virginia discovered that watching fast paced fantasy programs like Spongebob Squarepants may negatively affect a child’s learning ability by impeding the “executive function” of the brain. The brain’s executive function affects the child’s ability to pay attention, control their behavior and solve problems. This research is planned to be published in the October issue of Pediatrics journal.
The cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants is in hot water from a study suggesting that watching just nine minutes of that program can cause short-term attention and learning problems in 4-year-olds.
Something people are buzzing about this week is a story about a Denver mom who has a child with ADHD, and instead of a prescription drug, this mom gives her child coffee -- to calm down.
This morning a mommy blogger appeared on "ABC News" and shared that her 7-year-old son starts his day with a cup of coffee. Christie Haskell who writes for Cafe Mom's "The Stir" gives her son Rowan a second dose of caffeine later in the day.
ADHD (Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) is a psychiatric disorder of childhood and teens marked at school, home and in social circumstances by deterioration unsuitable levels of inattentiveness, hyperactivity and recklessness. In this you will know the ways of treating ADHD children without medication.
Whereas children as young as 9, who previously had not thought of the concept of suicide, are being asked invasive and leading questions by TeenScreen such as: Have you tried to kill yourself in the last year? Are you still thinking of killing yourself? Have you thought seriously about killing yourself? Have you often thought about killing yourself? Have you ever tried to kill yourself?" and kids are being lured into doing the suicide survey by TeenScreen's offers of free movie passes, food coupons, pizza parties and $50 mall gift certificates;
Many children receive multiple medications while they are hospitalized even though there may be safety concerns about some of the drugs, according to a new study.
Average annual antibiotic prescribing rates for children under 14 years of age dropped from 300 per 1,000 physician office visits to 229, a 24% fall, during the periods 1993-1994 to 2007-2008, a Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) revealed today. MMWRs are issued by the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention).
(NaturalNews) There is a good chance you have heard the story of Maryanne Godboldo and how armed government agents broke down her door and attempted to kidnap her 13-year-old daughter Ariana to turn over to CPS because she refused to medicate her with a potentially dangerous and mind-altering anti-psychotic drug Risperdal. Maryanne had been using holistic remedies for her daughter instead, such as dance therapy.
Harry Hucknall was only 10yrs old when he took his own life after being prescribed powerful anti depressants and ADHD drugs. These powerful drugs are prescribed to children to "ease the symptoms" of a mental health diagnosis based solely on theory. Doctors have been accused of handing these drugs out like sweets. Hundreds of children between the ages of 4 and 6yrs old are being put straight onto these drugs without receiving any form of counselling or talking therapy.
New York: Children whose mothers smoked while pregnant were more likely to end up on medications such as antidepressants, stimulants and drugs for addiction, according to a study from Finland that hints at smoking's effect on a baby's developing brain.
There are no genetic tests, no brain scans, blood tests, chemical imbalance tests or X-rays that can scientifically/medically prove that any childhood psychiatric label is a real “disorder”.
Since being grabbed, Ayn has been placed on three different antipsychotics. She and her father are just one example of families devastated by this racket.
Today I am bringing you news from the world of ADHD, because scientists claim they have found a difference in the brains of children with ADHD versus “normal” children. The brains of these children who have been diagnosed with ADHD were scanned with an MRI machine. They compared 40,000 different points in their brains looking for signs of thickness in the brain tissue.
Kids with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder are more likely to have writing problems such as poor spelling and grammar than their peers, suggests a new study. And the difference may be especially conspicuous in girls with ADHD.
Congressman Ron Paul has re-introduced The Parental Consent Act , A bill which prohibits federal funds from being used to establish or implement any universal or mandatory mental health, psychiatric, or socioemotional screening program.
FORMER Australian of the Year Patrick McGorry has aborted a controversial trial of antipsychotic drugs on children as young as 15 who are "at risk" of psychosis, amid complaints the study was unethical.
This amazing song and music video features Chill EB, and was released by CCHR (www.CCHRint.org). It's an eye-opening song about the pharma drugging of our children with psychiatric medications.
Over the last decade, an increasing number of American children have been diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), a new government survey reveals.
ADHD is a bogus mental "disorder" based only on a checklist of behaviors. There are no medical tests to prove any child has ADHD, yet more than 4.5 million kids have been diagnosed and put on drugs such as Ritalin, Adderall and Concerta, which the U.S. DEA places in the same highly addictive category of drugs as cocaine, morphine and opium. According to the Center for Disease Control, boys are much more likely to be diagnosed "ADHD" than girls. The "checklist" for ADHD could fit any normal child and literally includes such ridiculous criteria as " runs about or climbs excessively in situations when it is not appropriate" (we are talking about KIDS here... right?) " is often 'on the go "acts as if driven by a motor" "blurts out answers" "is easily distracted" " loses pencils or toys" "often doesn't seem to listen"
What irony. Detroit mother, Maryanne Godboldo, was just charged with child neglect for refusing to obey a Child Protective Services order to give her daughter Risperdal, a powerful psychoactive drug. Meanwhile federal and multiple state prosecutors are suing Johnson & Johnson for deceptively marketing the drug – including mismarketing its use on children – and hiding dangerous adverse effects. J&J now faces a potential $1 billion in damages.
A most alarming of the recent stories in the media about the behavioral plight of America’s young children came in the form of a “Today Show” segment last week about the “No Kids Allowed Movement.” Many of us were unaware there’s a movement afoot by consumers fed up with misbehaving kids that has led some airlines, restaurants and theaters to ban children under age 6 from their establishments.
It has long been evident that “Big Pharma’ has saturated their primary marketplace with their dangerous and toxic drugs. They have drugged adults, seniors, people with supposed psychological disorders–and now the only way to increase their sales share is to take business away from another drug company or to find a new disease not served by current medicines, not an easy task when all the other manufacturers are trying to do the same thing. Now, however, the marketing geniuses at the pharmaceutical companies have found a huge, lucrative new and relatively untapped market: children.
“The court system in Detroit appears to be trying to make an example out of Godboldo by sending a message: “Don’t resist tyranny.” When the state orders you to drug your children, don’t even think about saying no! If you do, armed SWAT teams will raid your house, CPS will kidnap your child, and you will be brought up on felony charges for resisting.”
My oldest was recently diagnosed (in June) with ADHD(hyperactivity/impulsivity) and Oppositional Defiant Disorder. He was always a challenge for us to parent. My hope was that his behavior was just a phase and that he would gow out of it. But here I am years later, and his behavior is still a huge concern.
If you had a narcissistic parent or if you just live in this narcissistic culture today, you may be wondering a lot about parenting and how to do things differently so you can raise a healthy, emotionally sound child. When raised in narcissistic families, children grow up with an "empty tank" because their emotional needs were not met. They may have had a roof over their heads, food to eat, and clothes to wear, but emotionally they feel orphaned and alone. Their most precious inner emotional life was not encouraged to grow and mature. Feelings were not validated or acknowledged and the result is growing up with nagging self-doubt and a fragile sense of self.
U.S. children are increasingly likely to be admitted to the hospital for mental problems, although the rates of non-psychiatric hospitalizations have remained flat, according to a study.
Antidepressants are the third most common type of medication prescribed in the U.S., with $10 billion a year in sales. Nearly three out of four of those prescriptions are written by non-psychiatric providers (many of them primary care physicians). A study in the journal Health Affairs reports that a growing number of patients receiving antidepressants from a doctor who isn’t a psychiatrist aren’t given an accompanying psychiatric diagnosis.
Anyone who’s an involvement in what’s going on in the planet of children’s wellbeing has discovered the explosion of medicinal drugs and a diagnosis of infants with PUT, ADHD, Asperger predicament or Autism. Does can be strike an individual as strange that suddenly a enormous percentage with otherwise normal and healthy and balanced children think you are diagnosed having these terrible diseases and schools and their linked medical counterparts tend to be prescribing all types of strange sound drugs to help “fix” these problems?
Whenever we were becoming an adult, just because a kid didn’t sit still with class, the coach didn’t scream that the child got some condition and need that your dog be drugged. But that’s exactly what the heck is happening to 1000s of children with public schools everywhere this land. And at some time, it’s as long as parents to perservere and state, “STOP. About to catch going to keep pumping medicines into some of our kids even though you can’t command your classrooms. “
More than one in five teens who get strong painkillers, stimulants or other controlled medications from their doctor take too much of the substances, according to a new survey of Michigan students.
hen it comes to rearing children, just about any parent will say that what works with one kid might not work with another. Parents use all sorts of strategies to keep kids from being cranky, grumpy, fearful or moody, while encouraging them to be independent and well-adjusted.
After suffering abuse and neglect, plenty of America’s foster children need therapy and medical assistance, but across the nation it’s become too easy to throw mind-altering pills at their problems and hope they go away.
A new study suggests practicing transcendental meditation (TM) improves brain function and reduces symptoms among students diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
Child drugging has been a huge profitable market for Big Pharma, earning them $4.8 billion dollars a year. They have done everything in their power to convince the press, legislators and especially parents why children need to be put on drugs.
Children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder may be at greater risk for being hit by a car when crossing the street. A new study suggests that because of differences in their ability to perceive risk, children with ADHD may choose to cross the street when it is less safe, even if they follow safety protocol like checking both ways.
This is not a teacher bashing article – not just because I spent 10 of the last 12 years as a classroom teacher (after 15 years of practicing neurology) but because I now am a “neuroeducator” teaching teachers how to connect the neuroscience research with teaching strategies. My request is for you to share your “worst teacher” experience to help current and future teachers avoid making those same mistakes with children in the future.
This is from the Frontline film: Medicating Kids. The boy in this particular clip is on Focalin (among other drugs), one of the medications mentioned in this article:
Ever since the second day her son went to kindergarten, Penny Williams has worried about him. That's the day Williams, a real estate broker in Asheville, N.C., got her first call from her child's teacher. Luke wasn't ready for school, the teacher told Williams. He couldn't sit still and didn't want to participate. The insinuation, Williams said, was that she had failed as a parent.
For a long list of reasons, the day-to-day life of a child in foster care can be challenging. Foster parents are often stretched thin and overburdened, foster children often wrestle with emotional issues that can go misdiagnosed, unrecognized or misunderstood, and qualified medical care for this vulnerable population is constantly in short supply.
Outselling even common drugs to treat high blood pressure and acid reflux, antipsychotic medications are the single top-selling prescription drug in the United States.
We'd left the pediatrician's office a mere two hours before the call came. On a recent sunny, summer afternoon, I'd brought my two daughters in for their annual physicals. They'd been weighed and measured and prodded and had blood drawn and received their shots and been handed lollipops at the end. We'd discovered my 11-year-old has grown 3 inches in the past year; my 7-year-old has grown 2. Their vision and hearing and vitals are all good. Two apparently clean bills of health -- it was all a family could wish for. Their blood and urine tests, meanwhile, likely hadn't even left for the lab yet. So why then was our doctor calling us back so soon? "I'm so sorry to tell you this," she said. "The nurse gave your child the wrong vaccine." At the end of the visit, my soon-to-be middle-schooler Lucy, my beautiful Harry Potter obsessive, was supposed to get the meningitis vaccine. Instead, for reasons still not fully clear to me, the nurse saw a preteen female in the chair, reached for the HPV vaccine Gardasil, and injected her.
Women taking antidepressant medications during pregnancy have another risk to worry about, autism. A study recently published in the Archives of General Psychology suggests that mothers taking antidepressants like Zoloft, Prozac, and Paxil may be increasing the risk of having a child born with autism.
Dozens of Rhode Island doctors received more than $2 million in payments from eight pharmaceutical companies in 2009 and 2010 for promotional or consulting work, according to a report issued by ProPublica.org.
Children as young as two are increasingly being prescribed powerful stimulant drugs like Ritalin for “ADHD.” 2,406 Australian children younger than six are on these drugs (1,007 of those in NSW).
The DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) is the world widely recognized classificatory system of psychiatric disorders, published by the American Psychiatric Association (APA). It is currently under major revision; the release version DSM-5 is expected in May 2013. The “psychiatrist´s bible“ has overwhelming impact: Inclusion in the DSM carries weight far beyond the psychiatrist’s office. It has major influence on whether insurers will cover therapy for a condition, whether research will be pursued for a specific disease or whether the health technology assessment agencies will approve medications that can be marketed for it.
This is Dr. Claudia Jensen who appeared on Countdown with Keith Olbermann on MSNBC on Apr. 22, 2004. She was a practicing Pediatrician in Ventura, California and an instructor at the USC Keck School of Medicine. She was lost to breast cancer on Sep. 15, 2007. R.I.P.
Cannabis, demonetized in the 30s under the name marijuana since it wasn't understood back then, is actually not a narcotic. It produces no physical addiction and is extraordinarily non-toxic, meaning that you can't have a lethal overdose of it as you can with nearly all other drugs, even over-the-counter ones. So cannabis is actually more accurately classified as a herb, which is what the plant is botanically.
This herb has been found to be surprisingly effective as a natural treatment for many medical conditions as an alternative to pharmaceutical chemical drugs with serious side-affects and the significant stresses that they put on the body.
Instead of using powerful psychotropic drugs, cannabis herb has been shown to be more effective in many cases for treating Attention Deficit Disorder (Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder).
Oral doses and not smoking is recommended for children and teenagers. This way there's absolutely no health concerns and the medicinal effects will last much longer delivered this way. A single dose with breakfast will last throughout the school day.
Prescriptions for psychiatric drugs increased 50 percent with children in the US, and 73 percent among adults, from 1996 to 2006, according to a study in the May/June 2009 issue of the journal Health Affairs. Another study in the same issue of Health Affairs found spending for mental health care grew more than 30 percent over the same ten-year period, with almost all of the increase due to psychiatric drug costs.
As part of its continuing efforts to warn parents about the dangers of psychiatric drugging of children, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) of California held its formal grand opening for the traveling exhibit “Psychiatry: An Industry of Death" in Old Sacramento. The event's keynote speaker was Mr. Frank Lee, President of the Organization for Justice and Equality, an association that focuses on discrimination problems, governmental policies and ethical issues. The free exhibit at 200 K Street in Old Sacramento continues through July 19th.
The Boston Globe reported yesterday1 (2 July 2011) that three Harvard Professors, Bierderman, Spencer and Wilens, who were referenced 82, 46 and 32 times respectively in the discredited draft Australian Guidelines on ADHD, have been sanctioned by their employer for allegedly failing to disclose millions of dollars in pharmaceutical company payments. 2 3
Russell Barkley, Ph.D., discusses the recent advancements in understanding the nature and subtyping of ADHD as well as recent discoveries in what might cause the disorder and medications that might help treat ADHD. Series: M.I.N.D. Institute Lecture Series on Neurodevelopmental Disorders [11/2008] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 14660]
In an effort to increase the immunization rates for school-age children, the Harford County Health Department will be holding early Back-to School Immunization Clinics for uninsured and underinsured students.
