Mental health court keeps children out of jail

Mental health court keeps children out of jail

Wearing shorts and a T-shirt, the teenager sat on the sofa in his home in Shreveport's Caddo Heights neighborhood and mumbled under his breath out of anger at his mother. A moment later he yelled at her.

Mental health and markets: two kinds of failure

It’s nice that the Federal Government has given a gong to Pat McGorry, but our country’s commitment to psychiatric treatment remains at the level of mere lip service. I read with interest a recent newspaper article reporting on the Federal Government’s scheme for giving subsidies to private psychologists. This program began in 2006, in response to widespread evidence of a ‘crisis’ in mental health. Psychiatric problems constituted a vast percentage of overall health burden in Australia, yet were systematically under-funded (in proportional terms). The then-Howard Government arranged for psychologists operating in private practice to be subject to Medicare rebates for the first time. The aim here was to allow the private system to pick up the slack for an over-burdened public system. These are the results:

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Doctors cautioned on Zyprexa for adolescents

The Federal Drug Administration on Friday issued a warning to doctors that adolescents taking the drug olanzapine have an "increased potential" -- in comparison with adults taking the new-generation antipsychotic drug -- for weight gain and metabolic disturbances that could result in diabetes or elevated blood cholesterol levels.

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Inexpensive Gene Tests for Parents-to-Be

The new movie “Extraordinary Measures” is based on the true story of a father who starts a company to develop a treatment for the rare genetic disease threatening to kill two of his children before they turn 10.

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Bill would expand child psychiatric services

A bill intended to provide more psychiatric services in Kentucky for children now getting care out of state passed the House Health and Welfare Committee Thursday on a unanimous vote.

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Middle school investigates flu shot

The San Ysidro School District is investigating how a 13-year-old middle school student received the H1N1 flu vaccination last week over her objections and against the will of her parents.

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Disturbing signals

What on earth was she thinking?

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The Rise Of Marketing-Based Medicine

You’ve heard of evidence-based medicine. Well, a new paper summarizes a panalopy of practices employed over the past two decades or so - ghostwriting, suppressing or spinning data, disease mongering and managing side effect perceptions among docs - that the authors call marketing-based medicine. And they rely on internal documents from litigation - such as the much-publicized lawsuits over antipsychotics and antidepressants - to illustrate their point.

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Antidepressants May Complicate Breast-Feeding

Antidepressants May Complicate Breast-Feeding

A widely used class of antidepressants can cause delayed lactation in new mothers, which means they may need additional support in order to breast-feed their babies, a new study says.

Savings don’t justify changing state’s psychiatric drug policy, advocates say

Saddled with potential budget shortfalls in excess of $450 million, Iowa lawmakers are understandably on the lookout for ways to slash state spending. But some health care advocates are warning that proposed changes to prescription medication policies are shortsighted and will do far more long-term harm than good.

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Bipolar in Diapers

Among the many so-called adult diseases now being diagnosed among the diaper-set, one of the most startling is bipolar disorder.

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ASIA: ‘Post-Disaster Psychosocial Support a Must for Children’

When disaster strikes, acute stress disorders, especially among children, may follow. Yet the need for early psychosocial interventions is often overlooked, if not ignored.

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Doctors Vaccinate For Profit

Years ago children were sent up chimneys or sold as servants to earn their parents extra money. Now they are being vaccinated by doctors, to boost their takings. Doctors, Governments and Pharma see our children as their property and are making thousands of pounds/dollars/euros out of them right under our noses. This, they call ‘Health Care’, I call it the legalization of child labour.

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PsychRights whistleblower lawsuit against psychiatrists unsealed: Defendents listed

A major Medicaid Fraud lawsuit by Law Project for Psychiatric Rights (PsychRights®) against psychiatrists, their employers, pharmacies, state officials, and a medical education-publishing company for their roles in fraudulent claims to Medicaid to drug mainly disadvantaged children and youth was unsealed, revealing a long list of defendants.

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Students get high on new legal herb

A legal herb with effects similar to marijuana is becoming increasingly popular among high school kids in Albuquerque.

AstraZeneca 'suppressed' drug test data

The marketing team sued over a drug's alleged side effects tried to suppress key data, an ex-employee has claimed.

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Psychiatrist admits she approved higher drug dosage in Riley trial

A Tufts Medical Center child psychiatrist today testified about how she had frequently approved higher dosages of psychotropic drugs for Carolyn Riley's two preschool daughters, often just after the mother admitted to doing it on her own anyway without asking the doctor.

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>> Doctor says mother gave child double dose at times

Psychiatric Medications and Children

It never fails to amaze me, and not in a good way, to hear a person say they are of the opinion that using psychiatric medication is "taking the easy way out".

Psychiatric Medications and Children

Medication Stolen From Wyo. Cancer Kid

A routine trip to a Colorado Target store has left a Wyoming mother and her son who is battling leukemia fuming at the theft of his life-saving medication.

U.S. doctors prescribing more psychiatric medications

Psychiatrists in the United States prescribed more psychotropic drugs to their patients in 2006 than they did a decade ago, according to an analysis by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Columbia University.

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Think They Don’t Electroshock People Anymore? Think Again–Even toddlers and pregnant women are being shocked

Ask the average person about the use of electroshock treatment in today’s society and 9 out of 10 will respond, “They still shock people?”

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Antidepressants Tied To Preterm Births: Study

Among nearly 3,000 women who gave birth in Washington State, those who started taking SSRI antidepressants in the second or third trimester had a higher risk of preterm birth, according to Reuters, which cites a study in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology. Compared with others not given the meds, the women were nearly five times more likely to deliver prematurely. The same risk was not seen, however, among women who started on an SSRI before pregnancy or during the first trimester.

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Teen abuse of ADHD drugs skyrockets

Inquiries to poison control centers about teenage abuse of drugs for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) increased by 76 percent over the last eight years, indicating a surge in rates of the abuse itself, according to a study conducted by researchers from the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Memorial Center and published in the journal Pediatrics.

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U.S. Overdrugging Children and Seniors

According to Federal law and CMS regulations, the standard of intervention is the least restrictive intervention method necessary that is effective for safety and/or the least restrictive intervention necessary according to a professional judgment standard for treatment.

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Novel approach could speed up discovery for new psychiatric drugs

Researchers from the University of British Columbia and Harvard University have co-developed a system that captures on video and barcodes the behavioral responses of zebrafish to chemical compounds on a large scale. The approach could dramatically speed up the discovery of new psychiatric drugs.

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Social worker says she warned family

Five months before 4-year-old Rebecca Riley died from an alleged overdose of psychotropic drugs, a Weymouth social worker warned the girl’s mother that the child seemed overmedicated and contacted the state’s child protection agency to say the family relied on an alarming amount of mood-altering medications.

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Port Counseling Center Wants to Help Protect Children From Drug ‘Epidemic’

Agnes Lasetchuk, executive director of Port Counseling Center, wants the parents of Port Washington to know that there are definite steps they can take to protect their children from what has been called an “epidemic” of heroin and opiate abuse in Nassau County.

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Kids doctor ‘misdiagnosed vulnerable children in care’

A PAEDIATRICIAN who treated children in care is accused of a string of misconduct allegations – including misdiagnosing vulnerable children and tricking NHS patients into seeing him privately.

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Child Protective Services and Psychological Evaluations

Know what the DSM IV is and the unfair and unequitable local judicial rules that work against you in a court of law. Understand what to look for in a psych evaluation. DO NOT do an evaluation unless the evaluator agrees to give you copies OF ALL their notes and diagnosis. Let the CPS caseworker and court know that you are willing to do an evaluation but only if the above is complied with. You do have a right to say no based on self incrimination. Voice record the verbal interview.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaA2ohqTNsQ

Guidelines on drug use in children with ADHD issued

Updated guidelines on the safe use of methylphenidate in children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have been issued by the MHRA.

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High drug error rate found in children’s treatment

Clinicians are making too many mistakes with drug treatments for children in hospital when prescribing or administering medicines, shows research published online in the Archives of Disease in Childhood.

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New Market Alert!!!

As Haiti tries to recover from the disaster, one of the greatest challenges will be rebuilding infrastructure that includes good sanitation, clean water, and meals for the displaced. But the mental health of thousands of Haitians will be an issue long after international aid workers have left the country. Psychiatrists say it could be months before victims and their families feel the full effect of the earthquake, and that, they say, is when their work really begins.

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Child obedience just a click away

Dealing with a defiant child can be made easier if you have internet access. That is because the Yale Parenting Center and Child Conduct Clinic are offering their online expert help, and services, to those who need parental guidance or advice.

Green Mental Health: First Do No Harm

For more on Green Mental Health click here: http://3.ly/NkX
Psychiatrist Hyla Cass says most psychiatrists simply label patients mentally ill based solely on symptoms and put them on dangerous and addictive drugs, instead of doing complete physical examinations to find and treat underlying medical conditions which can manifest as psychiatric symptoms. There are numerous non-harmful medical solutions that patients are not being offered. She also discusses the severe withdrawal effects of psychiatric drugs and what patients need to know about safely getting off of these drugs under a doctor's supervision.

Is Drugging Our Children The Answer Or Could A Natural Supplement Magnesium Help?

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) has been a commonly diagnosed illness occurring in children since the 1980s. Many people argue that ADHD should not be categorized as a disorder, but rather a set of problems that are normal to childhood. Either way, ADHD’s symptoms consist of wandering attention, nervousness, and hyperactivity. These symptoms can be extremely troubling for the parents and teachers that have to work with children suffering from ADHD. Drugs like Ritalin have been promoted ADHD treatments for many years, but have been found to have highly dangerous side effects and not be a solution to everything. Meanwhile, many nutritionists have discovered that many of the answers to ADHD can be found in a child’s diet in the form of food additives, sugar, and the missing essential nutrients.

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Catching Deadly Drug Mistakes

Catching Deadly Drug Mistakes

A nurse misunderstands an abbreviation on a pharmacy order, and gives an accidental overdose of a drug that slows the heart rate, killing the patient. Intravenous fluids are administered after surgery at too-high a rate to a child, who then dies because of the error. Confusion over a drug name leads to insulin being added to infant nutrition IV solutions instead of the intended medication, heparin, an anti-clotting drug: The consequences are fatal.

Children given wrong drug doses

Hospital doctors make mistakes in more than one in 10 prescriptions they write for children, far more than was previously thought, according to an authoritative study published today.

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Parents of kids with ADD struggle to pay for more than four hours of calm

Parents of children with attention deficit disorder are struggling to pay the full cost of medications that last longer than four hours.

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Are Patients Being Over-medicated?

A new study shows patients are using more drugs then they need. Some patients even see several different doctors for different ailments. No two doctors seem to know what the other is doing, and more medications are given then needed.

Emotional issues found among children affected by Hurricane Katrina

As the Gulf Coast pieces itself back together from Hurricane Katrina, a new study reveals the youngest victims of the category 3 storm still live with the devastation.

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Doctor wrote 1,000 scripts/week

Since 2004, a Miami psychiatrist has prescribed almost 14 million pills to Medicaid patients at a cost to taxpayers of $43 million, a state agency says.

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Miami psychiatrist defends his record over prescriptions

A state senator said a Miami psychiatrist `should be a poster boy' for tougher enforcement, while the doctor says he's been unfairly targeted

How a children's game proves ADHD really is all in the mind

The news will infuriate millions of parents who have children diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). A new British study has proved that children suffering from the behavioural disorder can control their symptoms - simply by learning self-discipline.

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Study Finds Disconnect Between Brain Regions in ADHD

New research shows that two brain areas fail to connect when children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) attempt a task that measures attention. Researchers at the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain and M.I.N.D. Institute made this discovery by analyzing the brain activity in children with ADHD, and their paper appears in the current online issue of the journal Biological Psychiatry.

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Young children prescribed antipsychotic drugs

The number of young children diagnosed with bipolar disease has doubled in the past decade.

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Over-the-counter kids' medicines recalled

Parents, go take a look in your medicine cabinets right now: McNeil Consumer Healthcare has announced a recall of many popular over-the-counter medications for kids, including some versions of Motrin, St. Joseph's baby aspirin, and Tylenol.

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J&J paid kickbacks to hike sales of schizophrenia drug: prosecutors

J&J paid kickbacks to hike sales of schizophrenia drug: prosecutors

U.S. prosecutors said Friday that health care giant Johnson&Johnson paid tens of millions of dollars in kickbacks so nursing homes would put more patients on its blockbuster schizophrenia medicine and other drugs.

Children and ADRs (Adverse Drug Reactions)

Many medicines are prescribed to the paediatric population on an unlicensed or 'off-label'basis because they have not been adequately tested and/or formulated and authorized for use in appropriate paediatric age groups.

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Second-Generation Antipsychotics: Cost-Effectiveness, Policy Options, and Political Decision Making

The Clinical Antipsychotic Trials of Intervention Effectiveness (CATIE) and other recent research suggest that second-generation antipsychotics other than clozapine may offer few, if any, advantages over first-generation antipsychotics, especially agents of intermediate potency. Thus the newer agents are not likely to generate sufficient benefit to justify their $11.5 billion annual cost. Policy approaches for containing drug costs are available and could improve cost-effectiveness by encouraging that second-generation antipsychotics be prescribed more selectively, such as only when clearly indicated. However, restrictions on either drug availability or physician choice are vigorously opposed by professional and consumer advocacy groups as well as by industry, and excessively restrictive approaches could unintentionally reduce access to beneficial treatments. Interventions that directly reduce second-generation antipsychotic prices would increase access for consumers but are inconsistent with broad opposition to government price regulation in the United States. High expenditures on these medications are thus likely to continue without concomitant gains for public health.

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Bipolar diagnosis jumps in young children: study

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.

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Mass. doctor accused of fraud by faking research

Federal prosecutors announced Thursday that they have filed a health care fraud charge against a doctor accused of faking research for a dozen years in published studies that suggested after-surgery benefits from painkillers including Vioxx and Celebrex.

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Families of autistic kids sue over therapy's elimination

Families of autistic children in eastern Los Angeles County filed a class-action lawsuit today against the nonprofit agency that provides them with state-funded services, alleging that it had illegally discontinued their therapy for the disorder.

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Morphine May Help Traumatic Stress

Doctors have long hoped to discover a “morning-after pill” to blunt the often disabling emotional fallout from traumatic experiences. Now it appears that they have had one on hand all along: morphine.

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Using EEG Biofeedback to Treat Children with ADHD

Using EEG Biofeedback to Treat Children with ADHD

A new thought-operated computer system that can reduce the symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children will be rolled out across the UK this month. Professor Karen Pine at the University of Hertfordshire’s School of Psychology and assistant Farjana Nasrin investigated the effects of EEG (Electroencephalography) biofeedback, a learning strategy that detects brain waves, on ten children with an attention deficit from Hertfordshire schools.

Hooked on happy pills: Internal bleeding. Strokes. Birth defects. The long term effects of antidepressants are terrifying

Just a few years ago, Yasmin Miller would have been horrified by the suggestion she might take antidepressants for the rest of her life. But today, the 37-year-old can barely imagine a future without this daily chemical boost.

More >> Hooked on happy pills: Internal bleeding. Strokes. Birth defects. The long term effects of antidepressants are terrifying

Anti-Psychotic Use on Young Kids Doubles

The rate of children aged 2 to 5 who are given antipsychotic medications has doubled in recent years, according to a new study in the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. Presumably, children with the most severe mental problems would be given the potent drugs. Yet less than half of these children had received any mental health assessment or treatment from a psychotherapist or psychiatrist, the study noted. "It is a worrisome trend, partly because very little is known about the short-term, let alone the long-term, safety of these drugs in this age group," said study author Dr. Mark Olfson.

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More evidence emerges that Americans are drugged out of their minds

As NaturalNews has previously reported, the U.S. is a nation seemingly hooked on mind-altering drugs (http://www.naturalnews.com/027054_d...). A study released last fall in the Archives of General Psychiatry documented a dramatic increase in the use of antidepressant drugs like Prozac since l996. In fact, these medications are now the most widely prescribed drugs in the U.S.


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Teacher arrested for giving restricted drugs

A teacher at a daycare center was found administrating a prescription drug known as "children's cocaine" to infants, prosecutors said yesterday.

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Child's suicide raises medication questions

Little bodies sink into adult-sized conference chairs.

With crayons between their fingers, they color on a sheet of paper after writing promises to their parents -- "to control my anger," "to make good grades" and "to go to the good side" when deciding what path to take in life.

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Computerized Monitoring of Adverse Drug Events

Investigators from St. Louis Children’s Hospital, St. Louis, MO (SLCH) performed a prospective evaluation of a rules-based computer surveillance program to detect inpatient adverse drug events (ADEs). The data monitored included patient-specific demographic, encounter, laboratory, and pharmacy information from hospital information systems for all admissions, excluding children with cancer, from February 1, 2008 to July 31, 2008.

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Beware Kitchen Spoons

Parents who use kitchen spoons to measure medicine risk poisoning their kids.

It sounds like a commonsense statement, but researchers at Cornell University found that people who are confident about measuring the right amount of cold or cough syrup often get it wrong. In a test of 195 people, the study participants poured, on average, 12 percent too much medicine. Those who under-poured missed the mark by 8 percent on average. The findings are published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

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Just as Predicted: Drug Companies Now Pushing Vaccines for All Kinds of Health Conditions

The growing lull in pharmaceutical sales over the past several years has driven the industry to ramp up its efforts in the vaccine department. Once a dying segment of the drug market, vaccines are back in the limelight as drug manufacturers work tirelessly to make new vaccines for everything from urinary tract infections to Alzheimer's disease. Many of their newest jabs could reach the market in less than five years.

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Increase in Antipsychotic Drugs to Treat Young Kids with ADHD

A new study has found that the rate of children aged 2 to 5 who are given antipsychotic medications for disorders such as ADHD and autism has doubled in recent years.

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Number of UK Children Put on Obesity Drugs Soars 1500 Percent in Seven Years

The number of children in the United Kingdom taking prescription weight loss drugs increased by 15 times between 1999 and 2006, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University College London and published in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology.

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Child Psychiatrists Updated on Medication Side Effects

Child psychiatrists are urged to be aware of the adverse effects of the medications they prescribe.

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How a psychiatrist can write 100,000 prescriptions a year, and what that means for primary care

The Miami Herald is reporting an investigation of a psychiatrist who wrote almost 100,000 prescriptions a year. Sen. Grassley and the feds have halted payment to this Miami psychiatrist who stated that “he prescribes only what is medically necessary” and “works long hours, seeing patients for 10 minutes at a time and many of his patients need four or five medications.”

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Robert Kennedy on the Vaccine Autism Coverup

Robert Kennedy talks about the cover up regarding vaccines and Autism.

In June 2000, a group of top government scientists and health officials gathered for a meeting at the isolated Simpsonwood conference center in Norcross, Georgia. Convened by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the meeting was held at this Methodist retreat center, nestled in wooded farmland next to the Chattahoochee River, to ensure complete secrecy. The agency had issued no public announcement of the session -- only private invitations to fifty-two attendees. There were high-level officials from the CDC and the Food and Drug Administration, the top vaccine specialist from the World Health Organization in Geneva and representatives of every major vaccine manufacturer, including GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, Wyeth and Aventis Pasteur. All of the scientific data under discussion, CDC officials repeatedly reminded the participants, was strictly "embargoed." There would be no making photocopies of documents, no taking papers with them when they left.

The federal officials and industry representatives had assembled to discuss a disturbing new study that raised alarming questions about the safety of a host of common childhood vaccines administered to infants and young children. According to a CDC epidemiologist named Tom Verstraeten, who had analyzed the agency's massive database containing the medical records of 100,000 children, a mercury-based preservative in the vaccines -- thimerosal -- appeared to be responsible for a dramatic increase in autism and a host of other neurological disorders among children. "I was actually stunned by what I saw," Verstraeten told those assembled at Simpsonwood, citing the staggering number of earlier studies that indicate a link between thimerosal and speech delays, attention-deficit disorder, hyperactivity and autism. Since 1991, when the CDC and the FDA had recommended that three additional vaccines laced with the preservative be given to extremely young infants -- in one case, within hours of birth -- the estimated number of cases of autism had increased fifteenfold, from one in every 2,500 children to one in 166 children.

THE GOVERNMENT AND VACCINE MANUFACTURES KNOW VACCINES ARE CAUSING DAMAGE TO THOUSANDS.

Vaccine Exemption Information
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Lawsuits filed over drug side effects

A Philadelphia law firm today said it filed 10 lawsuits on behalf of boys and young men who developed serious side effects - including the growth of breasts - while taking the antipsychotic medications Risperdal and Invega.

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US parents on trial over girl's overdose

Before she turned three, Rebecca Riley was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity and bipolar disorders.

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More Toddlers, Young Children Given Antipsychotics

The rate of children aged 2 to 5 who are given antipsychotic medications has doubled in recent years, a new study has found.

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Penn Study Shows Antidepressants Work Best for Severe Depression, Provide Little to No Benefit Otherwise

A study of 30 years of antidepressant-drug treatment data published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows that the benefit of antidepressant medication compared with placebo may be minimal or nonexistent in patients with mild or moderate symptoms. University of Pennsylvania researchers say, however, the benefit of medications is substantial for patients with very severe depression.

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Clinical research and you

Patient families are key to supporting researchers in finding the causes and cures for the medical conditions we treat every day at Childrens Hospital of Wisconsin.

ADHD linked to obese mothers

CHILDREN are at double the risk of displaying symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder if their mother was overweight or obese when she became pregnant, according to European research.

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Chickenpox vaccine study

Children whose parents opt not to give their child the chickenpox vaccine are nine times more likely to develop the disease.

Mental health Trojan horse

The vast majority of Americans are unaware of most of what is included in the Senate and House health care reform bills as they head for reconciliation in the House-Senate Conference. They will be in for a big surprise concerning parity mental health care coverage, covering mental problems comparably to physical problems. In addition, the arguments supporting the changes, rarely made public in order to avoid rigorous debate, have revealed the shifting grounds supporting parity.

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Metabolic Tests Ignored in Medicaid Patients on Antipsychotics

Antipsychotic-induced metabolic disturbances receive little attention among Medicaid patients treated with second-generation drugs, according to an analysis of more than 100,000 cases.

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More Toddlers, Young Children Given Antipsychotics

The rate of children aged 2 to 5 who are given antipsychotic medications has doubled in recent years, a new study has found.

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Drug Addiction In Children

Children get easily impressed and influenced as they are nave, less experienced and cocooned by us. Hence they easily fall prey to the external pressures and create problem hampering their physical and mental activity. We routinely find changes in their attitudes in the form of lying, stealing etc. Usually we neglect and bypass the issue imagining it to be irrelevant and a one off case. This careless and negligent attitude of ours can cost us heavily in the long run.

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Generation RX (2008)

For decades, scores of doctors, government officials, journalists, and others have extolled the benefits of psychiatric medicines for children. GENERATION RX presents “the rest of the story” By employing the expertise of internationally respected professionals from the fields of medicine, ethics, journalism, and academia, GENERATION RX investigates collusion between drug companies and their regulatory watchdogs at the FDA and focuses on the powerful stories of real families who followed the advice of their doctors – and faced devastating consequences for doing so. GENERATION RX is a film about families who confronted horror and found nowhere to turn for help – and how scores of children have been caught in the vortex of mind-bending drugs at the earliest stages of their growth and development. This powerful documentary also questions whether we have forced millions of children onto pharmaceutical drugs for commercial rather than scientific reasons.

http://wideeyecinema.com/?p=3340

The Controversy About The Best Treatments for ADHD

The Controversy About The Best Treatments for ADHD

What are the best treatments for ADHD? The controversy rages on and there are advocates of ADHD meds who say that the side effects and the risks are minimal while there are other advocates of homeopathy, meditation, yoga, deep breathing, behavior modification, dietary changes and even equine therapy! There seems to be little agreement and the drug companies ware insistent that their psychostimulants are the best treatments for ADHD and this is regarded as the first option by many doctors, parents and paediatricians. It should, in my opinion, be the last option.

Increase In Psychiatric Drug Combos Prompts Safety Concerns

Increase In Psychiatric Drug Combos Prompts Safety Concerns

An increasing number of American adults are being prescribed two or more psychiatric medications, according to a study published Tuesday in the Archives of General Psychiatry.

Mental health Trojan horse

The vast majority of Americans are unaware of most of what is included in the Senate and House health care reform bills as they head for reconciliation in the House-Senate Conference. They will be in for a big surprise concerning parity mental health care coverage, covering mental problems comparably to physical problems. In addition, the arguments supporting the changes, rarely made public in order to avoid rigorous debate, have revealed the shifting grounds supporting parity.

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Studies: Mental Ills Are Often Overtreated, Undertreated

More Americans are being prescribed multiple psychiatric medications for use at the same time, but most people diagnosed with recent depression don't get adequate treatment, according to two independent studies published Monday.

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Drugging Kids for Profit

As uses for antipsychotic drugs multiply, these powerful substances with strong side effects are being used to treat kids more and more often.

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The youth who frequent picture palaces
Have no use for psychoanalysis,
And although Dr Freud
Is distinctly annoyed,
They cling to their long-standing fallacies.

Psychotropic drug use among Icelandic children: a nationwide population-based study.

The aim of this study was to investigate psychotropic drug use among children in Iceland between 2003 and 2007.

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Finally, Some Action on This Insane Drugging of Our Children.

The Texas legislature is considering a bill that would require doctors to get prior approval before prescribing atypical antipsychotic drugs like Zyprexa, Risperdal, Invega, Abilify, Seroquel and Geodon to children under 11 who are covered by Medicaid in that state, the Dallas Morning News reported on April 1, 2009.The reports on Texas foster children in recent years provide evidence to support such a bill.

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