Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome: Newborns Addicted To Prescription Drugs

There is a new group of addicts and this group will tear your heart out because they are helpless and innocent. They had no choice and they have no say in their final destiny. This group is newborn babies.

Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome: Newborns Addicted To Prescription Drugs

MICHIGAN’S PRESCRIPTION FOR FOSTER KIDS: DRUGS

Taxpayers have spent more than $70 million in a single year in Michigan on psychotropic drugs for foster kids and other children on Medicaid. And, nearly a quarter of Michigan foster kids were on psychotropic drugs to counteract behavioral problems and diagnosed mental illness in 2008, according to a recent government report.


MICHIGAN’S PRESCRIPTION FOR FOSTER KIDS: DRUGS

U.S. kids getting more ADHD drugs, fewer antibiotics

The number of drugs dispensed to U.S. minors has dropped slightly over the past decade, bucking the rise in prescriptions to adults, according to a government report out Monday.

U.S. kids getting more ADHD drugs, fewer antibiotics

'GENERATION RX' Extended Trailer

http://GenerationRXFilm.com DVD FOR SALE NOW AT WEBSITE Common Radius Films is a private documentary and media development company based in Vancouver, British Columbia. GENERATION RX marks the first film partnership between the company and international award-winning writer/producer/director Kevin P. Miller. This film explores how children have been caught in the middle of an unprecedented change in Western culture: that of drugging children with psychiatric medications earlier — and more often than ever before. 

Turning healthy people into psychiatric patients

Diagnoses of psychiatric conditions like ADHD have increased explosively in recent years. Dutch experts say boisterous or easily-distracted children are being wrongly labelled as patients, largely to make money for pharmaceutical companies. They are afraid the new internationally-used manual for psychiatry unnecessarily brands even more healthy people as sick.


Turning healthy people into psychiatric patients

Psychiatrist: More pushback needed on medicating kids with behavioral problems

A Boys Town child psychiatrist told attorneys and child advocates Thursday they should challenge the use of psychotropic medications for children -- especially powerful antipsychotic drugs -- and look more often to behavioral and other therapies to treat mental health problems in children.


Psychiatrist: More pushback needed on medicating kids with behavioral problems

More than half of autistic children on psychiatric medications

More than half of school-age autistic children in the United States take mood-altering drugs, according to a report, as doctors increasingly target the broad range of psychiatric symptoms associated with the ailment.

More than half of autistic children on psychiatric medications

Foster children medicated at high rates

Oklahoma medicates its foster children at higher rates than national averages when it comes to antipsychotic drug prescriptions, according to a study released by PolicyLab at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Foster children medicated at high rates

‘Study Drugs’ Popular Among High School Students

Stimulant medications prescribed for children with A.D.H.D. are being abused by high school students wanting to study late into the night and stay focused during exams. Below are characteristics of the drugs’ five most popular brands, which (along with their generic equivalents) make up the vast majority of the 21 million stimulant prescriptions dispensed in 2011 for patients aged 10 through 19.

‘Study Drugs’ Popular Among High School Students

More children are being diagnosed with ADHD

The number of prescriptions given to hyperactive young teenagers in the Bay of Plenty is on the rise, and a family advocate says doctors under pressure for a quick fix are to blame.


More children are being diagnosed with ADHD

Growing Up With ADHD Meds – And Deciding to Quit Them

I’m always thrilled when readers write in wanting to share their experiences or their children’s experiences with medication.

Growing Up With ADHD Meds – And Deciding to Quit Them

Minn. moves to limit psychotropic drugs for poor, foster children

Concerned by a sharp rise in the use of powerful psychiatric drugs for adolescents, Minnesota will start requiring doctors in many cases to begin using a state-funded consulting service before prescribing such medications for children.

Minn. moves to limit psychotropic drugs for poor, foster children

Are Doctors Improperly Storing Vaccines?

As many moms do, Julie Dilensky of Washington, D.C., takes her one-year-old daughter to the doctor for her recommended vaccinations.


Are Doctors Improperly Storing Vaccines?

Mayo consult service to cut harmful psychotropic RX to kids ...

Primary care doctors will need to check in before prescribing antipsychotics and other dicey psychiatric medications to many children in Minnesota. The state Department of Human Services has hired the Mayo Clinic to provide a new consult service to cut down on doctors who make questionable prescriptions of psychiatric drugs and to improve the quality of child mental health care in the state.

Mayo consult service to cut harmful psychotropic RX to kids ...

What Happens When Toddlers Zone Out With an iPad

More than half of the young children in the U.S. now have access to an iPad, iPhone or similar touch-screen device. For parents, their children's love of these devices raises a lot of questions.


What Happens When Toddlers Zone Out With an iPad

Overdosed: Over 25% of Kids on Prescription Drugs

A report released by Medco Health Solutions Inc., the biggest U.S. pharmacy-benefit manager, shows that over 25% of children and teens are involved with taking prescription medications – although that number may have risen over the past couple years. Based on the company’s data from 2009, 7% of U.S. children are on a shocking two or more drugs.


Overdosed: Over 25% of Kids on Prescription Drugs