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]