Bay Area News Group wins global Online Journalism Award for 'Drugging Our Kids' series

The Bay Area News Group's "Drugging Our Kids" series, which revealed the excessive use of psychiatric drugs in California's foster care system, was named a winner at the 15th annual Online Journalism Awards on Saturday.

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Australia to penalize parents who don't vaccinate children

The Australian government said on Wednesday that it will pass a law that would withhold child care and other payments from families that fail to immunize their children.

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ARE WE OVER-DRUGGING OUR KIDS?

A new report by the Centers for Disease Control explains, at least partly, why the numbers of children being diagnosed with ADHD have skyrocketed in recent years: many of these youngsters (1 in 5, actually) have been improperly diagnosed.

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Senators question FDA decision on Oxycontin for kids

A bipartisan group of U.S. senators, including Maine Sen. Angus King, and New Hampshire Sens. Jeanne Shahaeen and Kelly Ayotte, are calling for an investigation into the Food and Drug Administration's recent decision to approve the use of the painkiller OxyContin by children as young as 11-years-old.

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Report: Most Kids Diagnosed With ADHD Before Age 9

If you know a child who has been diagnosed with ADHD, there's a good chance they're not even 10 years old yet.

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Back to school, back to drugs for ADHD kids, claims mental health watchdog

Children across the South West are going back to school – and back to drugs, a campaign group says.

Some 1,350 children in the Westcountry have been diagnosed with hyperkinetic disorder or ADHD, allowing their families to claim up to £82 a week in benefits, according to the Citizens Commission on Human Rights.

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CCHR Exhibit Alerts Parents to 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" on Wednesday, September 2nd in Old Sacramento. The free exhibit located at 106 L Street will run through Sept 12 and is part of the continuing efforts to warn parents about the dangers of psychiatric drugging of children by CCHR, a non-profit, non-political, non-religious mental health watchdog co-founded by the Church of Scientology and the late Dr. Thomas Szasz, Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus at the State University of New York Health Science Center in Syracuse.

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Bombshell: Mind-control engineers drugging children for “Social Justice”

It’s the latest thing. Psychiatrists are giving children in poor neighborhoods Adderall, a dangerous stimulant, by making false diagnoses of ADHD, or no diagnoses at all. Their aim? To “promote social justice,” to improve academic performance in school.

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By the time DeAngelo Cortijo was 14, he had been in more than a dozen foster homes. He had run away and lived on the streets for months, and he had been diagnosed with bipolar and anxiety disorders, attachment disorder, intermittent explosive disorder or posttraumatic stress disorder. He had been in and out of mental hospitals and heavily medicated.

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