Many Ways To Die From Psychiatric Drugs

There are many ways to die from legal psychiatric drugs: through overdose, through illness occasioned by the devastating effects of the drug upon the body’s organs, through suicide and loss of impulse control (many psychiatric medications list such among their many adverse reactions) or simply through accidents that result from loss of judgment and reaction time on the part of persons driving vehicles or handling machinery whilst “high” on such medications.

Many Ways To Die From Psychiatric Drugs

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Expectant moms use too many dangerous drugs

Despite recent warnings about the dangers of using certain drugs during pregnancy, many expectant moms continue to take medications that cause birth defects.

Expectant moms use too many dangerous drugs

FDA Approves Abilify for Children with Autism

Abilify, an anti-psychotic drug, has been approved for treatment of "irritability" in children with autism.

FDA Approves Abilify for Children with Autism

California takes medical marijuana too far

In California, children as young as 14 years old can legally use marijuana. The state allows doctors to recommend medical marijuana to their patients, including those under the age of 18. Although there is no hard data on how many minors have been given the drug, anecdotal evidence reported in The New York Times suggests it does occur.

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Parents treating children with medical marijuana cited in mainstream media

Urgent review to be undertaken of 'tainted' ADHD guidelines

FEDERAL Health Minister Nicola Roxon's advisers were warned in August last year that drug company payments to a world-renowned US expert on ADHD could have tainted proposed new Australian guidelines for the drug.

However, it was only last month that the National Health and Medical Research Council ordered a rethink of the guidelines - on how ADHD should be treated - because of concerns the doctor's research had been compromised by the drug company funding.

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Ritalin? But my son’s only two

I am going to give you a prescription for sleeping pills,” the doctor said, signing the blue chit. He tore it off the pad and handed it to me. “Don’t worry, they will really help.” I fit the stereotype of the exhausted mother, yes, but the prescription — for Circadin tablets, to be taken every night — wasn’t for me. It was for my two-year-old, who at that moment was playing with a box of toys on the floor of the doctor’s office. “I would also like to suggest that he has a closely monitored three-week trial on Ritalin, or a drug like Ritalin,” the doctor — a neuropsychiatrist — continued. “Are you sure?” I asked. “He’s only 2.”

Ritalin? But my son’s only two

Autism treatments: Risky alternative therapies have little basis in science

Thousands of U.S. children undergo these therapies and many more at the urging of physicians who say they can successfully treat, or "recover," children with autism, a disorder most physicians and scientists say they cannot yet explain or cure.

But after reviewing thousands of pages of court documents and scientific studies and interviewing top researchers in the field, the Tribune found that many of these treatments amount to uncontrolled experiments on vulnerable children.

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Viagra Helpful for Children With Heart Defect

Viagra Helpful for Children With Heart Defect

The erectile dysfunction drug sildenafil, commonly known as Viagra, boosts the heart’s pumping ability in children and young adults who’ve had the Fontan operation to correct single-ventricle heart defects, researchers report.

Excerpts from Robert Whitaker's "Anatomy of an Epidemic: Psychiatric Drugs and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America"

The percentage of Americans disabled by mental illness has increased fivefold since 1955, when Thorazine - remembered today as psychiatry's first "wonder" drug - was introduced into the market.

Excerpts from Robert Whitaker's "Anatomy of an Epidemic: Psychiatric Drugs and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America"

How much medication is too much for kids with ADD?

Attention deficit disorder is a neurological disorder causing problems with attention span, hyperactivity and impulsive behaviors.

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Baby Z Cured of Rare Disease in 3 Days

Baby Z had a one in a million chance of developing a rare metabolic disorder called molybdenum cofactor deficiency and zero chance of avoiding the inevitable death sentence that comes with it.


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Cures aren't profitable. That's why they usually like to manage disease.

Why is Your Doctor Getting Your Child Hooked on Unnecessary Drugs?

Unfortunately it is becoming more and more common to hear reports of how the pharmaceutical industry is manipulating scientific findings and in turn readily handing out prescriptions to children, often unnecessarily. The factor that seems to be driving this trend is very simply the almighty dollar. Keep reading to find out who is responsible for this recent trend, and why your doctor may be getting your child hooked on unnecessary drugs.

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Regulation of Psychotherapy: The Maresfield Report

Worth reading.

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Foster-"Guinea Pigs":

Foster-"Guinea Pigs":
A System of Perpetrators, Not "Protectors"

Too many times, our systems of authority lose sight of the reason(s) for their establishment.

That's not to say that we, the people, are absolved of any responsibility where that is concerned; for we are supposed to maintain vigilant eyes over our systems and offices. The people, of any state or nation, should always be the firm voices of governance for their elected officials and public servants.

Commentary: The Medicated Child and the Compliant Parent

On November 3rd, 2009 Frontline aired a program on the subject of a dramatic increase in the number of children being diagnosed with serious psychiatric disorders.

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Overmedicating our kids

How do you deal with a school, an elementary school, that tells a parent, "We want your child out. We would rather see your child fail than the whole class fail." We have a lot of difficult children at QUEST, but this little girl is not one of them. Pretty quiet, always needing hugs and prone to simple tears. But compared to the bedlam in the rest of the room, she is almost a model child. And, this is a biggie, she has a mom who cares, who goes to meet with teachers and sends her child for psychological intervention.

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