When drugging replaced spanking

When drugging replaced spanking

USA Today recently reported that the number of Americans taking antidepressants is soaring. This could possibly be in direct connection to the controversial TeenScreen survey given to children as young as 9 years old in public schools. TeenScreen has been responsible for policing the mental health of children over the past decade. It is significant that this mental-screening process usurps parental rights over the care of their own children.

Legal, Widespread, and Dangerous: Drugging Kids in Foster Care

Years ago, rubbing a little brandy on the gums of a teething child was thought to soothe and do no lasting harm. Parents of today who disapprove should be aware of just how often children are prescribed powerful, mind-altering medicines.

Legal, Widespread, and Dangerous: Drugging Kids in Foster Care

Letter: Beware over-medication of youth

The psychiatric community has been increasingly labeling our children with ADHD, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and depression and putting these kids on strong psychotropic medications.

Letter: Beware over-medication of youth

Ban Forced Psychiatric Medication in Kids

Ban Forced Psychiatric Medication in Kids

HR.2769 - Parental Consent Act of 2011 - Prohibits federal funds from being used to establish or implement any universal or mandatory mental health, psychiatric, or socioemotional screening program.

The Drug Companies' Newest Profit Weapon to Steal Your Money

The drug industry spends nearly twice as much on promotion as it does on research and development, and historically one of their key targets has been physicians.

The Drug Companies' Newest Profit Weapon to Steal Your Money

I Drug Kids From Home and Earn $1,750,000 per Year!

Stan, the millionaire TeenScreen psychiatrist, breaks his silence to reveal his AMAZING child drugging money making secrets!!

I Drug Kids From Home and Earn $1,750,000 per Year!

The Psychiatric Drugging of America's Foster Children

The Psychiatric Drugging of America's Foster Children

The most vulnerable among us are the littlest victims. Young children, torn from their birth families through various, often unspeakable tragedies. These children end up in state supervised foster care and too often are passed from hand to hand, house to house. There were approximately 662,000 children in foster care in the United States in 2010.

Dark Secrets: Treating Foster Care Children Like Medical Lab Rats

Medical experiments conducted on vulnerable people, people who are unable to give consent or people who have been misled, are always wrong. It is also wrong when there is reason to believe that the person undergoing the experiment faces serious risks as a result. If you put the two together you have something we used to call a crime. In fact, we prosecuted the Nazis for this behavior.

Dark Secrets: Treating Foster Care Children Like Medical Lab Rats

Shame of a nation: US tested AIDS drugs on foster children

This is a shameful story. It follows a history in this country of the government subjecting individuals to cruel medical and drug tests. I’m reminded of the Tuskegee syphilis experiments conducted between 1932 and 1972 (see photo above).

Shame of a nation: US tested AIDS drugs on foster children

Revised DSM-5 Could Open Up Wider Legal Claims

Revised DSM-5 Could Open Up Wider Legal Claims

The American Psychiatric Association is revising its highly influential Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, currently known as DSM-IV (the fifth version will be “DSM-V” or, since a switch to Arabic numbering is planned, “DSM-5″). Nearly 8,000 persons have signed a petition, sponsored by the Society for Humanistic Psychology, Division 32 of the American Psychological Association, which challenges the revision’s proposed widening of the definitions of mental disorder. The letter associated with the petition warns that the revision proposes to lower diagnostic thresholds for many categories of disorder without good reason, as well as introducing new constructs such as “Internet Addiction Disorder” that have “no basis in the empirical literature.” The expansion could lead to inappropriate medical treatment as well as other ill effects.

Experts say Utah foster children are not over medicated

An ABC investigation uncovers disturbing numbers on how many foster kids nationwide may be severely overmedicated. Some children receiving the anti-depressants and antipsychotic drugs were under the age of two. Utah experts say not here.

Experts say Utah foster children are not over medicated

The drugging of foster kids

Foster children in Florida prescribed psychotropic drugs at far higher rates in 2008

Foster Kids Are Overly Medicated, Report Says This one is from Fox News.

Same article from the Wall Street Journal Foster Kids Are Overly Medicated, Report Says

Foster Kids Given Psychiatric Drugs At Higher Rates

Foster Kids Get Unneeded Psych Drugs, GAO Says

Foster Kids At Risk For Receiving Psychotropic Drugs

Foster Kids in Texas Getting Way Too Many Psychiactric Drugs

Foster Kids Given Psychiatric Drugs At Higher Rates

Foster Care Children Fall Victim to Drug Companies

Foster children more likely to be prescribed psychotropic drugs than non-foster children, GAO study finds

Foster children prescribed more psychotropic drugs than children not in state care, study says


Siouxland Woman Speaks Out Against Medicating Foster Kids

Stop drugging foster kids into a stupor

Feds Fail To Protect Foster Kids From Potent Psych Meds

Overmedicating Foster Kids: The Cost of Skimping on Care

Mind-Altering Psych Drugs for a 7-Year-Old



FDA Drug Limit Exceeded in Foster Children

Foster Kids and Meds: Doctors Questioned



Foster children prescribed more psychiatric drugs







U.S. report: Foster kids get high rate of psych meds

New report suggests overdosing of those in custody

Foster Children Given Harmful Antipsychotics and Tranquilizers as Frequently as Mentally Disabled

Children in foster care being controlled by excessive drugging

Examining the Costs of Medicating America’s Foster Children

Boy, 12, Tells Congress of Years on ‘Stupid’ Meds

Antipsychotic drugs may lead to a heightened risk of diabetes in kids, according to new research.

Antipsychotic drugs may lead to a heightened risk of diabetes in kids, according to new research.

Antipsychotic drugs may lead to a heightened risk of diabetes in kids, according to new research.

Antipsychotic drugs are used in children to treat conditions such as autism and bipolar disorder. The new findings agree with previous research suggesting that in addition to causing weight gain in kids, these drugs could increase the risk of diabetes in some patients.

When moms on welfare work, kids may lag in vaccines

When moms on welfare work, their children may be somewhat less likely to get their vaccinations on time, a new study suggests.

When moms on welfare work, kids may lag in vaccines

Medical mafia in Australia to force parents to medicate ADHD children

The typical treatment recommendation for children diagnosed with psychiatric or mental health conditions such as bipolar disorder or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) includes a combination of behavior and drug therapies. Such treatments are legally optional, but the Australian government’s National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) is actually considering mandating that parents of diagnosed children accept the prescribed drug treatments or else face the wrath of child protective services.

Medical mafia in Australia to force parents to medicate ADHD children

Antipsychotic Drug Use an Indicator of National Decline

eady for a shock? Twenty-five percent of American women take medication for a mental disorder. Think about that. Let me repeat: One in four—a quarter of the women in America—take at least one antipsychotic drug. Some take several drugs.

Antipsychotic Drug Use an Indicator of National Decline

Diabetes Mellitus In Children Linked To Antipsychotic Meds: Study

Diabetes mellitus in children may be tied to them increasingly being prescribed antipsychotic medications, a study suggests.

Diabetes Mellitus In Children Linked To Antipsychotic Meds: Study

Drugs Used for Psychotics Go to Youths in Foster Care

Drugs Used for Psychotics Go to Youths in Foster Care

Foster children are being prescribed cocktails of powerful antipsychosis drugs just as frequently as some of the most mentally disabled youngsters on Medicaid, a new study suggests.

Canadian Kids are All on Drugs

The number of prescriptions for antipsychotic drugs for kids in Canada more than doubled between 2005 and 2010. A study in the journal Pediatrics & Child Health shows that the number of prescriptions jumped 114 per cent across those years, despite most antipsychotics not being cleared for use in Canada among people younger than 17. The drugs are used to offset the symptoms of attention deficit hyperactive disorder, autism, mood disorders, and all manner of behavioural problems in kids as young as six. According to Postmedia‘s Sharon Kirkey and Pamela Fayerman:

Canadian Kids are All on Drugs

Refuse vaccines and risk dismissal by doctor

It's not unusual for a patient to change doctors. Doctors retire, families move, insurance changes.

Refuse vaccines and risk dismissal by doctor

Doctors see surge in newborns hooked on mothers' pain pills

Medical authorities are witnessing explosive growth in the number of newborn babies hooked on prescription painkillers, innocent victims of their mothers' addictions.


Doctors see surge in newborns hooked on mothers' pain pills

British TV survey exposes drugging of children

Almost immediately after the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) scandal emerges about its withholding of information regarding the safety of vaccines, another tale of needless drug exposure gets the spotlight treatment. There is worry now as pharmaceutical companies block approaches made to the authorities with regards to any data outlining the long-term effects of antipsychotic drugs on children.

British TV survey exposes drugging of children

Study: Millions of Kids' Antibiotic Prescriptions Unneeded

Pediatricians write more than 10 million unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions—for conditions like the flu and asthma—every year, suggests a new study.

Study: Millions of Kids' Antibiotic Prescriptions Unneeded

STATE OF CONFUSION ON CHILD DRUGGING

Shoddy record-keeping by the Department of Juvenile Justice is hampering the agency’s own investigation into the dosing of jailed children with powerful antipsychotic drugs, the department’s head told a top state lawmaker this week.

STATE OF CONFUSION ON CHILD DRUGGING

Over-reliance on Psychiatric Medication in Children: A Pediatrician's View

Over-reliance on Psychiatric Medication in Children: A Pediatrician's View

This weekend I was scheduled to speak at a conference in LA sponsored by the International Society for Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry entitled "Alternatives to Biological Psychiatry." Unfortunately, due to a family emergency, I was unable to attend. As I had already prepared my talk, I decided to translate it into a blog post.

Federal Government Wants To Test Anthrax Vaccine On Children

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.

Federal Government Wants To Test Anthrax Vaccine On Children

The Diagnosing and Drugging of 'ADHD' Children -- An American Tragedy Worsens

The Diagnosing and Drugging of 'ADHD' Children -- An American Tragedy Worsens

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.

Report Finds Parent Training Effective for Treating Young Children With ADHD

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).

Report Finds Parent Training Effective for Treating Young Children With ADHD

Labeling tantrums a mental illness doesn't help

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."

Labeling tantrums a mental illness doesn't help

Maine doctor protests national anthrax testing on children

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.

Maine doctor protests national anthrax testing on children

CDC Panel May Push HPV Vaccine for Boys

CDC Panel May Push HPV Vaccine for Boys

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.

We are drugging our children for being children

Re: New rules drop age for use of Ritalin-type drugs, Oct. 17

These new guidelines issued to doctors for prescribing psychostimulant drugs to children as young as four are a step in the wrong direction.

We are drugging our children for being children

More Than One in Ten Americans Take an Antidepressant

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.

More Than One in Ten Americans Take an Antidepressant

Stephen Cook asks 'Are Psychotropic Drugs Killing our Kids?'

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.

Stephen Cook asks 'Are Psychotropic Drugs Killing our Kids?'

The Kids Mental-Health Crisis

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.

The Kids Mental-Health Crisis

Recent Trends in Stimulant Medication Use Among U.S. Children

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?

Recent Trends in Stimulant Medication Use Among U.S. Children

New ADHD guidelines: Kids as young as 4 can be diagnosed

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.

New ADHD guidelines: Kids as young as 4 can be diagnosed

Brown signs bill letting CA minors get STD vaccine

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.

Brown signs bill letting CA minors get STD vaccine

Shy children now candidates for dangerous psychiatric drugs

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.

Shy children now candidates for dangerous psychiatric drugs

Calming your child's ADHD symptoms

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.

Calming your child's ADHD symptoms

Judge Agrees Prozac Could Have Made Teen a Killer

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.

Judge Agrees Prozac Could Have Made Teen a Killer

ADHD: Are we over-drugging our kids?

From 1996 to 2008, the number of kids being prescribed anti-ADHD drugs such as Adderall rose by roughly 30 percent

ADHD: Are we over-drugging our kids?

Godboldo Wins Custody of Her Daughter

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.

CDC now calling U.S. households and demanding child immunization records as part of vaccine surveillance and tracking program

CDC now calling U.S. households and demanding child immunization records as part of vaccine surveillance and tracking program

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.)

Health Officials: Antipsychotic Drugs Given to Millions of Children are Very Dangerous

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.

Health Officials: Antipsychotic Drugs Given to Millions of Children are Very Dangerous

Number of U.S. Kids on ADHD Meds Keeps Rising

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.

Number of U.S. Kids on ADHD Meds Keeps Rising

Use of ADHD Medications Rises Among Kids, Especially Teens

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.

Use of ADHD Medications Rises Among Kids, Especially Teens

Florida’s juvenile zombie prisons

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.

Florida’s juvenile zombie prisons

If School Was Causing Your Child’s ADD / ADHD Would You Remove Him?

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.

If School Was Causing Your Child’s ADD / ADHD Would You Remove Him?

U.S. advisers urge FDA to address antipsychotics in kids

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. advisers urge FDA to address antipsychotics in kids

U.S. advisers urge FDA to address antipsychotics in kids

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. advisers urge FDA to address antipsychotics in kids

Preschoolers on meds: Too much too soon?

Preschoolers on meds: Too much too soon?

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.)

Father of Injured Gardasil Girl Matches Caplan’s Bio-Unethical $10,000 Bet

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.’

Father of Injured Gardasil Girl Matches Caplan’s Bio-Unethical $10,000 Bet

4 Your Child: Faux ADHD

Study: Millions of kids misdiagnosed with ADHD

According to the study, changes in a child's regular routine can help determine if they do really have the disorder.

Study: Millions of kids misdiagnosed with ADHD

California takes hard line with unvaccinated kids

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.

California takes hard line with unvaccinated kids

Bachmann’s Vaccine Mistake

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.

Bachmann’s Vaccine Mistake

Infant's death shines light on practice of medicating kids to sleep

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.

Infant's death shines light on practice of medicating kids to sleep

Prescription drugs poisonings up in kids

More and more kids are showing up in the emergency room after accidental poisoning from prescription drugs, according to new research.

Prescription drugs poisonings up in kids

Drugmakers pay millions to Idaho physicians

They dine out courtesy of drug companies. A Boise psychiatrist ate $607 worth of meals paid for by Pfizer last year.

Drugmakers pay millions to Idaho physicians

'Shy' children at risk of being diagnosed with mental disorder

Children who are merely shy or sad are at risk of being diagnosed with mental disorders and given powerful drugs, experts warn.

'Shy' children at risk of being diagnosed with mental disorder

For kids with ADHD, regular 'green time' is linked to milder symptoms

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.

For kids with ADHD, regular 'green time' is linked to milder symptoms

Fast Paced Fantasy, May Impede Kids’ Cognitive Ability

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.

Fast Paced Fantasy, May Impede Kids’ Cognitive Ability

SpongeBob causes short-term attention problems in young kids: study

SpongeBob causes short-term attention problems in young kids: study

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.

Mom Treats Kid's ADHD With Coffee

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.

Can a cup of coffee cure a kid's ADHD?

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.

Can a cup of coffee cure a kid's ADHD?

Treating ADHD children without medication

Treating ADHD children without medication

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.

Stop TeenScreen's Unscientific and Experimental "Mental Health Screening" of American School Children

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;

Stop TeenScreen's Unscientific and Experimental "Mental Health Screening" of American School Children

Hospitalized Kids Overmedicated, Study Finds

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.

Hospitalized Kids Overmedicated, Study Finds

Antibiotic Prescriptions For Kids Drop 24% In 14 Years

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).

Antibiotic Prescriptions For Kids Drop 24% In 14 Years

Twisted web of lies in Godboldo Case: Big Pharma, multiple agencies, judge, DHS all profit from child abduction

Twisted web of lies in Godboldo Case: Big Pharma, multiple agencies, judge, DHS all profit from child abduction

(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.

Children Drugged To Death - Channel 4 News

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.

Moms' smoking tied to psychiatric meds in kids: study

Moms' smoking tied to psychiatric meds in kids: study

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.

Psychiatrists Label And Drug Children For Profit

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”.

Psychiatrists Label And Drug Children For Profit

U.S.-Mandated Report Finds Vaccines Safe for Kids

IOM panel pored over 1,000 studies and found little evidence for lasting harm

U.S.-Mandated Report Finds Vaccines Safe for Kids

Autistic Girl Stolen from Her Father and Forcibly Drugged by the Canadian Government: The Corrupt Business

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.

Autistic Girl Stolen from Her Father and Forcibly Drugged by the Canadian Government: The Corrupt Business

The ADHD Scam and the Mass Drugging of Schoolchildren

The ADHD Scam and the Mass Drugging of Schoolchildren

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.

Writing problems common in kids with ADHD

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.

Writing problems common in kids with ADHD

Ron Paul Reintroduces The Parental Consent Act 2011- Prohibits Federal Funding For Psychiatric ‘Screening’ of Kids

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.

Ron Paul Reintroduces The Parental Consent Act 2011- Prohibits Federal Funding For Psychiatric ‘Screening’ of Kids

Drug trial scrapped amid outcry

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.

Drug trial scrapped amid outcry

Define Better - song and music video

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.

Study: Nearly 1 in 10 U.S. kids diagnosed with ADHD

Over the last decade, an increasing number of American children have been diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), a new government survey reveals.

Study: Nearly 1 in 10 U.S. kids diagnosed with ADHD

ADHD—Labeling normal kids "mentally ill"

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"

Risperdal drug maker faces $1B in lawsuits, yet mother charged for refusing use on child

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.

Risperdal drug maker faces $1B in lawsuits, yet mother charged for refusing use on child

Drugged kids aren’t all right

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.

Drugged kids aren’t all right

Big Pharma’s Push to Drug Children: the Last Marketing Frontier

Big Pharma’s Push to Drug Children: the Last Marketing Frontier

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.

Detroit mother Maryanne Godboldo found in neglect for refusing to medicate daughter with psychiatric drugs

“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.”

Detroit mother Maryanne Godboldo found in neglect for refusing to medicate daughter with psychiatric drugs

Mom's questioning meds for treating ADHD

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.

Mom's questioning meds for treating ADHD

Blaming the Parents

See, if you were the perfect parent, your kid would have no issues apparently.

How Empathic Parenting Is the Antithesis of Narcissism

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.

Gotta love the feminist psycho-babble, eh?

Facebook: Good and Bad for Kids?

Ever wonder how all that time spent on Facebook is affecting your child? A new study shows social media may offer risks and benefits for kids.

Facebook: Good and Bad for Kids?

Kids Who Use Facebook Do Worse in School

DELAWARE: Lack of psychiatrists takes toll on kids

DELAWARE: Lack of psychiatrists takes toll on kids

When 9-year-old Joshua gets angry, he squeezes his neck and punches his face so hard that he bruises himself.

U.S. children hospitalized for mental illness

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.

U.S. children hospitalized for mental illness

Teen held in foster sister's shooting

Teen held in foster sister's shooting

A 14-year-old girl died shortly before midnight Wednesday after being shot in the neck by her 17-year-old foster sister in Ferry Pass.

Antidepressants Often Prescribed Without A Diagnosis

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.

Antidepressants Often Prescribed Without A Diagnosis

They demand to Drug Your kids!

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. “

They demand to Drug Your kids!

Trial begins over Detroit teenager's psychiatric care

Trial begins over Detroit teenager's psychiatric care

A jury will now decide whether a mother medically neglected her daughter when she refused to give her a psychotropic drug.

Insured Families No Longer Eligible For Free Vaccines

Marion County families who have insurance will no longer be eligible for free vaccines through the health department.

Insured Families No Longer Eligible For Free Vaccines

Many kids abuse controlled medications

Many kids abuse controlled medications

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.

Mothers Little Helper

Kids’ Anxiety, Depression Halved When Parenting Styled to Personality

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.

Kids’ Anxiety, Depression Halved When Parenting Styled to Personality

Psychotropic Drugs: A Troubling Staple of Foster Care

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.

Psychotropic Drugs: A Troubling Staple of Foster Care

Transcendental Meditation Lessens Kids’ ADHD Symptoms

Transcendental Meditation Lessens Kids’ ADHD Symptoms

A new study suggests practicing transcendental meditation (TM) improves brain function and reduces symptoms among students diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

Psychiatric disease labeling of children exposed as scam by non-profit group

Psychiatric disease labeling of children exposed as scam by non-profit group

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.

Kids With ADHD More Likely To Be Hit By Cars: Study

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.

Kids With ADHD More Likely To Be Hit By Cars: Study

Your Bad Teacher Experiences Can Make Your Child’s Teachers Better

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.

Your Bad Teacher Experiences Can Make Your Child’s Teachers Better

The Wholesale Drugging of Children

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:

The ADHD Rollercoaster: Stressed Parents Need Help, Too

The ADHD Rollercoaster: Stressed Parents Need Help, Too

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.

Dysfunction Junction (Mad TV)

Parody of the old "Schoolhouse Rock" educational programs.

Note: Stolen from my buddy Leonard over at AFRA

The mass overmedication of foster children with psychiatric drugs

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.

The mass overmedication of foster children with psychiatric drugs

An unprecedented 1 in 66 Americans is a diagnosed psychotic

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.

An unprecedented 1 in 66 Americans is a diagnosed psychotic

Our pediatrician gave my daughter the wrong vaccine

Our pediatrician gave my daughter the wrong vaccine

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.

Antidepressant use During Pregnancy Linked to Increased Risk of Autism

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.

Antidepressant use During Pregnancy Linked to Increased Risk of Autism

Cashing In: RI Doctors Paid Millions By Pharmaceutical Companies

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.

Cashing In: RI Doctors Paid Millions By Pharmaceutical Companies

Drugging Our Children - Video Travel Alert

Is drugging kids on flights a form of terrorism?

Rising Rate of ADHD drugs for kids like Ritalin

Rising Rate of ADHD drugs for kids like Ritalin

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 Madness of Normality” – On why the DMS-5 is fundamentally wrong

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.

“The Madness of Normality” – On why the DMS-5 is fundamentally wrong

Cannabis is better for ADD and ADHD in kids than Ritalin

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.

US Kids Represent Psychiatric Drug Goldmine

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.

US Kids Represent Psychiatric Drug Goldmine

Exhibit Warns about the Dangers of Psychiatric Drugging of Children

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.

Exhibit Warns about the Dangers of Psychiatric Drugging of Children

World leading ADHD ‘expert’ Harvard Professor Joseph Biederman sanctioned over hidden drug company money

World leading ADHD ‘expert’ Harvard Professor Joseph Biederman sanctioned over hidden drug company money

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

CPS Puts 3-Year-Old on Psychotropic Drugs

CPS Puts 3-Year-Old on Psychotropic Drugs

For now, 4-year-old Rachel Harrison is back with her parents.

CPS Puts 3-Year-Old on Psychotropic Drugs: MyFoxHOUSTON.com

Management of ADHD

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]

Kids with`ADHD' being caged by drugs, Thornbury photographer says

Kids with`ADHD' being caged by drugs, Thornbury photographer says

DRUGGING energetic children so they comply to classroom activities should be stamped out, says Thornbury photographer Sean O’Carroll.

Health department schedules immunization clinics

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.

Health department schedules immunization clinics

ADA: Antipsychotics Change Metabolism in Kids

Antipsychotics appear to increase body fat and increase the risk of metabolic abnormalities in children and adolescents, researchers said here.

ADA: Antipsychotics Change Metabolism in Kids

Psychiatrists are the least effective of mental health professionals, says consultant psychologist

Psychiatrists are the least effective of all mental health professionals, a consultant clinical psychologist has claimed.

Psychiatrists are the least effective of mental health professionals, says consultant psychologist

Psychiatric Drugging of Foster Kids

52% of kids in foster care are being prescribed dangerous and deadly psychiatric drugs. Many are on cocktails of prescribed drugs, including antipsychotics and antidepressants with documented side effects of diabetes, stroke, mania, psychosis, tumors, coma, suicide and death.

Bipolar label soars among kids

Someday, Jenna Beckman's daughter might be diagnosed with bipolar disorder, an incurable swaying between manic rage and depression. But it won't be now, at age 8.

Bipolar label soars among kids

My Thoughts on ADHD and the Drugging of Children

Uncensored, unscripted rant about ADHD, why I think it's basically a fraud foisted upon the public by Big Pharma. Sure to cause some controversy.

Guest commentary: Children diagnosed with ADHD may just be advanced creative thinkers

Guest commentary: Children diagnosed with ADHD may just be advanced creative thinkers

The medical profession is responding to research verifying that millions of children have been misdiagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

Food Coloring and ADHD - No Known Link, But Wider Safety Issues Remain

When University of Maryland psychologist Andrea Chronis-Tuscano testified before a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) hearing last March, it changed her mind about possible risks of artificial food coloring for children, and drove her to look more closely at the products in her own pantry that she feeds her kids.

Food Coloring and ADHD - No Known Link, But Wider Safety Issues Remain

Stealth Vaccine Laws Allow Children to Consent to Vaccines

Stealth Vaccine Laws Allow Children to Consent to Vaccines

A current California bill, AB 499, would “allow a minor who is 12 years of age or older to consent to medical care related to the prevention of a sexually transmitted disease.”[1] That is, children as young as 12 will be able to get a Gardasil or other STD vaccine without their parents’ knowledge or consent if this bill passes. Disturbingly, North Carolina has a much broader child consent law already on the books: “Any minor may give effective consent . . . for medical health services for the prevention . . . of venereal disease and other [reportable] diseases…”[2] I call these laws “Stealth Vaccine Laws” because they provide for the administration of vaccines without the word “vaccine” or “immunization” appearing in the law. Thus, they may slip under the radar of anti-vaccine activists doing electronic searches for vaccine bills and laws using those terms.

How Children Get ADHD Was Once Thought To Be The Flu

Let’s take a walk back in time to 1919 in a rural schoolhouse. Mrs. Smith has fifteen students half of which have the primary ADHD symptoms of hyperactivity, inattentiveness, and impulsivity.

How Children Get ADHD Was Once Thought To Be The Flu

ADHD Drug Side Effects- Looking At The Valid And Safer Alternatives.

by Robert William Locke

There is a lot of concern nowadays about ADHD drug side effects. This is because they are powerful mind altering drugs and their effects on the child's whole development is causing a lot of worry and angst. Others say that only about 30% of children on these drugs cannot stand the side effects but that seems to be a very high percentage to me.

Over 5 million children in the USA and about 20 million kids worldwide are now branded with the label ADHD. They seem to have attention problems, are hyperactive and are also disruptive which, according to the ADHD deniers, they are just being typical children. As the vast majority of these children are on prescribed drugs, we can see why there is so much worry and concern.

Those who insist that there is a biological/neurological disorder which must be medicated, represent the other extreme view. These are usually in the pay of the drug companies and include teachers, doctors and parents too who are recruited to appear on Facebook and pretend that they are bona fide parents of children with ADHD.

The pharmaceutical industry is so afraid of the backlash from worried parents that they have even paid for research which sets out to discredit the homeopathic and herbal remedies. It is not surprising really, given that there are millions of dollars involved.

What are the ADHD drug side effects?

These range from sleepiness during the day and then sleepless nights. There is also a negative effect on appetite and there are reports of stunted growth among these children. There may be nausea, psychotic episodes, suicidal thinking, cardiac events and also depression. Some children feel zombie like and cannot wait to get off these drugs.

ADHD drug side effects may also involve an addiction for substance abuse given that these drugs are basically amphetamines.

In a damning report which runs to over 700 pages, the Drug Effectiveness Review of Oregon State University actually did over 2,000 studies on whether the ADHD drug side effects were worth the risk. They found that they were not worth very much at all and there did not seem to be any conclusive evidence that they actually helped at all!

Basically they were not helpful in the long run and were just about managing the symptoms, which is what the drug companies claim. But is that enough? Can that justify drugging the nation's children?

Other studies have shown that the effects of ADHD drugs wear off after about three years and the child is put on stronger medication or just left to cope.

In conclusion, we can only say parents should read more and find out what the alternatives to the side effects of ADHD drugs are. There is a very simple answer which I have explained on my website. Why not check it out?

Love, cherish and protect your child. Experts now tell us that natural ADHD treatments . combined with child behavior modification techniques is by far the most effective ADHD treatment. Robert Locke has written extensively on ADHD and Mental Health for many years. For more parenting and ADHD advice, visit :- http://natural-adhd-cure.com

Child victims of the chemical cosh: Boy who killed himself after taking Ritalin

Child victims of the chemical cosh: Boy who killed himself after taking Ritalin

Captured in a family video, Harry Hucknall gives a cheeky grin before whizzing off down the street on his new bike. His father, Darren, will never forget the moment — when Harry was seven — and often watches the scene again and again.

Drugging our Kids on Antidepressants

The number of children aged six and under being prescribed anti-depressants has soared by almost 50 per cent since the federal government pledged to investigate the issue, new figures show.

Federal health department data reveals prescribing rates of the controversial drugs have risen from 852 in 2007-08 to 1264 in 2009-10.

Drugging our Kids on Antidepressants

CDC: Most U.S. kids get recommended vaccines

Although nearly all American children get the recommended vaccinations to prevent serious diseases, many parents express concerns about the shots, and a small number refuse to have their kids inoculated, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

CDC: Most U.S. kids get recommended vaccines

To medicate or not: That is the question

Parenting has never been, nor ever shall be, for the faint of heart. No, parenting is a gutsy and courageous task demanding that we, the parents, make hundreds and hundreds of decisions for our children. As your child's primary care-giver, you hope and pray that by becoming a good parent, you will be able to open all the doors life has to offer for your child.

To medicate or not: That is the question

Alarm as more kids on antidepressants

Alarm as more kids on antidepressants

“Alarm as more kids on anti-depressants” Herald Sun, 30 May 2011, read the full article on the Herald Sun website

Parents: Don't be drug dealers for your kids

How to keep your kids safe from prescription drugs this summer.

Parents: Don't be drug dealers for your kids

Letters: Way too many children on anti-psychotic drugs

Letters: Way too many children on anti-psychotic drugs

Thank you Palm Beach Post and reporter Michael LaForgia for the "Drugging delinquents" series on the overuse of anti-psychotic drugs by the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice. It was a great wake-up call.

Are antidepressants over-prescribed to young people?

In the Spring Issue of McClung’s Magazine, Julianna McDermott examines how young Canadian women are being prescribed powerful antidepressant drugs in record numbers. She discovers that family doctors, who most patients turn to, don’t always have the time or the training to properly diagnose depression. They spend only an average of ten minutes with patients who complain of depression, but 80 per cent of those patients walk away with prescriptions for Selective Seretonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRI). SSRIs are widely believed to be effective treatment for depression, but they have serious side-effects, including an increased risk of suicide in young people. Here is an except from McDermott’s feature article Chemicals for Candy.

Are antidepressants over-prescribed to young people?

Drug firms cut vaccine prices to the developing world

Several major drugs companies have announced big cuts to the amounts they charge for their vaccines in the developing world.

Drug firms cut vaccine prices to the developing world

High suicide rates related to anti-smoking drug Chantix were 'left out of crucial safety review'

Hundreds of reports of suicides and violent reactions tied to the stop-smoking drug Chantix were left out of a crucial government safety review.

High suicide rates related to anti-smoking drug Chantix were 'left out of crucial safety review'

ADHD Diagnosis, Treatment Differ Across the Globe

ADHD Diagnosis, Treatment Differ Across the Globe

In Israel, highly active children are well tolerated in the classroom, making it difficult to distinguish high activity from attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) manifestation. In Brazil, light physical punishment is considered by a large number of teachers to be “therapeutic,” and physical exercise is considered a viable alternative to medication for children with ADHD. In Canada, health professionals view ADHD as an impairing, often lifelong disorder that requires careful assessment and multimodal intervention.

Wendy Berman Joins Sweetser's Sanford Psychiatric Medication Management Team

This is the first time I have come across anything regarding a Psychiatric Medication Management Team.

Wendy Berman Joins Sweetser's Sanford Psychiatric Medication Management Team

Wash. has highest rate of kids' vaccine exemptions

Washington state is home to the nation's highest rate of parents exempting their children from vaccines, according to a new federal report released Thursday.

Wash. has highest rate of kids' vaccine exemptions

Drugging our children

Thousands of children 'not ready for school' at five

Up to half of five-year-olds are not ready for school as working parents increasingly abandon traditional games, nursery rhymes, bedtime stories and lullabies, according to research.

Thousands of children 'not ready for school' at five

Psychiatrists Push to Gain Support for Electroshocking Kids

Note from CCHR: The audacity of psychiatry never ceases to amaze us. Take the issue of electroshock ‘treatment’,

Psychiatrists Push to Gain Support for Electroshocking Kids

Mental Illness in Kids: The Surprising Warning Signs

This is my 1000th post to Drugging Children. And with that I post a warning to parents. Don't trust these people with your kids mental health. The really just want to get them into the system, hooked on meds, labeled, make the job of the teachers easier, and guarantee themselves some business.

This is the kind of propaganda they will use to sucker new parents into the scam.

Mental Illness in Kids: The Surprising Warning Signs

Few parents are prepared to recognize symptoms of mental health problems in their child. Do you know what to look for?

Few shrinks are prepared to recognize anything real in kids too. So don't feel bad.

Haunts: Florida has a drug problem

Haunts: Florida has a drug problem

The State of Florida, the so-called Sunshine State, has a drug problem, a drug crisis actually. The State seems hooked on psychotropic drugs for children. And not just any children. The most vulnerable children. Foster children. Children in prison. Children in various forms and modes of `custody’.

Needless Antibiotics Often Doled Out to Asthmatic Kids

Pediatric asthma patients are nearly twice as likely to be prescribed an unnecessary antibiotic, compared with other pediatric patients, during an office or emergency department visit, recent studies revealed.

Needless Antibiotics Often Doled Out to Asthmatic Kids

Are american children to be used in medical experiments to test anthrax vaccine?

The highly controversial and potentially lethal anthrax vaccine may be tested on US children if the federal government gets its way. Although adverse event reports related to the vaccine among adult test subjects have included hospitalization, disability and even death, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is exploring the possibility of testing the vaccine on children.

Are American children to be used in medical experiments to test anthrax vaccine?

Children under six on anti-depressants

THE number of children aged six and under being prescribed anti-depressants has soared by almost 50 per cent since the federal government pledged to investigate the issue, new figures show.

Children under six on anti-depressants

Creating juvenile zombies, Florida-style

They’re children of the new Florida ethic. Zombie kids warehoused on the cheap in the state’s juvenile lock-ups. Kept quiet, manageable and addled senseless by great dollops of anti-psychotic drugs.

Creating juvenile zombies, Florida-style

Drugging our kids on anti-depressants

THE number of children aged six and under being prescribed anti-depressants has soared by almost 50 per cent since the federal government pledged to investigate the issue, new figures show.

Drugging our kids on anti-depressants

$500 Million Obama Administration Program Will Help Kids 'Sit Still' in Kindergarten

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told CNSNews.com on Wednesday that the administration's new $500 million early learning initiative is designed to deal with children from birth onward to prevent such problems as 5-year olds who "can't sit still" in a kindergarten classroom.

$500 Million Obama Administration Program Will Help Kids 'Sit Still' in Kindergarten

STOP Drugging the Children

Created on May 25, 2011 using FlipShare.

I'm sorry.

Drugging kids for parents' relief called abusive

If the kids become too much to handle, slip 'em a little cold medicine. It's an often-repeated joke -- or advice -- that parents share on the playground or on Twitter and Facebook pages.

Drugging kids for parents' rhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifelief called abusive

Drugging the Vulnerable: Atypical Antipsychotics in Children and the Elderly

Drugging the Vulnerable: Atypical Antipsychotics in Children and the Elderly

Pharmaceutical companies have recently paid out the largest legal settlements in U.S. history — including the largest criminal fines ever imposed on corporations — for illegally marketing antipsychotic drugs. The payouts totaled more than $5 billion. But the worst costs of the drugs are being borne by the most vulnerable patients: children and teens in psychiatric hospitals, foster care and juvenile prisons, as well as elderly people in nursing homes. They are medicated for conditions for which the drugs haven't been proven safe or effective — in some cases, with death known as a known possible outcome.

Bill Gates says vaccines can help reduce world population

Bill Gates says vaccines can help reduce world population

This statement by Bill Gates was not made with any hesitation, stuttering or other indication that it might have been a mistake. It appears to have been a deliberate, calculated part of a well developed and coherent presentation.

Little people, lots of pills: Experts debate medicating kids

Americans have been led to believe -- by their doctors, by advertisers and by the pharmaceutical industry -- that there is a pill to cure just about anything that ails them. This week, the networks of CNN go deep into the politics and the pills.

Little people, lots of pills: Experts debate medicating kids

Zoloft Birth Defect Lawsuits

Use of the SSRI antidepressant Zoloft during pregnancy has been linked to an increased risk of serious and potentially life-threatening health problems for babies, including a risk of heart defects, persistent pulmonary hypertension in newborns (PPHN), lung defects, abdominal defects, cranial defects and other malformations.

Zoloft Birth Defect Lawsuits

Some Dentists Reluctant to Treat Kids on Medicaid: Study

Undercover research in Illinois reveals that dentists are far more willing to provide emergency care to children with private insurance than to kids with public insurance such as Medicaid.

Some Dentists Reluctant to Treat Kids on Medicaid: Study

Dosed in juvie jail: Drug firms pay state-hired doctors

In Florida's juvenile jails, psychiatrists entrusted with diagnosing and prescribing drugs for wayward children have taken huge speaker fees from drug makers - companies that profit handsomely when doctors put kids on antipsychotic pills.

Dosed in juvie jail: Drug firms pay state-hired doctors

Huge doses of potent antipsychotics flow into state jails for troubled kids

Florida has plied children in state juvenile jails with heavy doses of powerful antipsychotic medications.

Huge doses of potent antipsychotics flow into state jails for troubled kids

Scientists uncover basis for drug resistance in common childhood cancer

Scientists uncover basis for drug resistance in common childhood cancer

US scientists say they have worked out why acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) - the most common form of childhood cancer - can come back after treatment.

Is it ADHD or just inattention?’

Is it ADHD or just inattention?’

Dr. Marcia Eckerd will explain how to differentiate between attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and rambunctious child's play, or a child who just doesn't like to pay attention, during a “Speak Up for Kids” talk on Wednesday, May 25, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Black Rock Branch Library, 2705 Fairfield Ave., Bridgeport.

Dr. Oz Show - The Four Things Drug Companies Don't Want You to Know

How much do you think they were paid to sign off on this?

Study Finds No Risk of Death from Ritalin, Adderall, Other ADHD Drugs

The findings of a new study failed to find any correlation between the potential side effects of Ritalin, Adderall and other Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) medications and an increased risk of death in children.

Unborn babies given diabetes drug to prevent obesity

A trial to give obese pregnant women a diabetes drug to tackle obesity rates has been branded ‘disturbing’ by weight loss organizations.

Unborn babies given diabetes drug to prevent obesity

Children of deployed service members have increased rates of psychiatric hospitalization

Many studies have looked at the mental health impact on members of the U.S. armed forces deployed in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as the impact on their spouses. But little formal research has been directed at how children of deployed service members fare.

Children of deployed service members have increased rates of psychiatric hospitalization

Is ADHD a Fictional Disease?

Some psychiatrists argue that ADHD is little more than a marketing gimmick. But they're the ones making the money anyway.

Is ADHD a Fictional Disease?

Prescriptions written ‘under pressure’

Ed Madden, BL, looks at a recent hearing in which a Fitness to Practise Panel in the UK considered the case of a doctor who used a hospital prescription pad to prescribe for two people who were not his patients and whom he did not examine.

Prescriptions written ‘under pressure’

Making child meds easier to understand

When you give your child medicine, are you sure you're giving the right dose? Doctors say many parents aren't and the consequences can be tragic. Now, the government is trying to make it easier to understand certain medicine labels.

Are we drugging kids into stupidity?

ADHD Psychobabble.

Are we drugging kids into stupidity?

Scientists now confirm Thom Hartmann's theory on ADHD - A "Hunter in a Farmer's World." Aria Pearson with New Scientist Magazine says, "ADHD symptoms, like rapidly shifting focus and quick movements, are actually survival traits that were selected for during our migration out of Africa." Time to reconsider how we treat ADHD kids in our schools.

ADHD Becoming More Prevalent Among Adults

ADHD has traditionally been considered a childhood disorder, but over the last two decades, researchers have found that the disorder often persists into adulthood. According to the Los Angeles Times, psychiatrists are in the process of rewriting the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders" (DSM) textbook and have submitted a proposal to the American Psychiatric Association that could make it easier to identify older teens and adults with the disorder. Prevalence rates are expected to increase as a result. Currently, the DSM describes ADHD as a disorder of children. According to Dr. Steven Cuffe of the University of Florida, the proposed changes to the DSM will describe what ADHD looks like in older teens and adults, the Times reports. Children with ADHD exhibit such symptoms as failing to complete schoolwork and being disruptive in the classroom. Symptoms in adults with ADHD can include trouble meeting deadlines at work and interrupting someone who’s speaking. According to Cuffe, hyperactivity exhibited in children is usually reflected as restless feelings in adults who have ADHD, although problems with attention tend to persist into adulthood. The number of adults expected to be diagnosed after the proposed changes go into effect is not yet known, but it’s likely that number will go up. A few years ago, ADHD was said to affect an estimated three to five percent of children. That figure is now up to six to eight percent.

ADHD Becoming More Prevalent Among Adults

Study: ADHD meds don't boost severe heart risks

Children and teens who take medications for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder are no more likely to die from severe heart problems than those who do not take the medications, new research has found.

Study: ADHD meds don't boost severe heart risks

How To Brainwash A Nation

This amazing interview was done back in 1985 with a former KGB agent who was trained in subversion techniques. He explains the 4 basic steps to socially engineering entire generations into thinking and behaving the way those in power want them to. It's shocking because our nation has been transformed in the exact same way, and followed the exact same steps.

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