Warrant: Albuquerque psychiatrist over-medicated hundreds of children in his care

Unlike many doctors, Albuquerque psychiatrist Edwin Bacon Hall, 74, accepted patients on Medicaid and saw them in a timely manner. He often treated foster children, who were sent his way with the approval of their legal guardian, the Children Youth and Families Department (CYFD).

On at least one occasion in his office, he prescribed drugs while dressed as a clown. But what really drew attention was the number of pills he handed out.

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Rev. Frederick Shaw: Rallying the NAACP to End Psychiatric Abuse of African American Children

CCHR, a non-profit mental health watchdog dedicated to the protection of children, applauds the debut of a new documentary highlighting one man’s fight against the multi-billion dollar psychiatric industry.

In a new documentary in “The Voices for Humanity” series on the Scientology TV network, human rights advocate Rev. Frederick Shaw, Jr. takes on the multi-billion dollar psychiatric interests in drugging and electroshocking children, especially in his African American community. As the international spokesperson for the international headquarters of CCHR and a Vice President of the Inglewood-South Bay branch of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), Rev. Shaw championed the national NAACP’s unanimous passage of two resolutions opposing electroshock treatment and psychotropic drugging of children.
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Study: Preschool apps manipulate kids to watch ads and make purchases

You’re OK with letting your small child play with various smartphone apps, assuming they are educational.

But pediatric researchers and the authors of a study released Tuesday say just the opposite. Too many of the apps aimed at preschoolers manipulate the youngsters to watch ads or make in-app purchases, resulting in potentially harmful behavior, according to the study from the University of Michigan Medical School.

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How melatonin is helping kids sleep

Note: Should be titled, How melatonin is being sold to parents

Many parents will be only too familiar with the problem of children tossing and turning for hours before they finally go to sleep.

Rather than put up with it, a growing number of Australian families are turning to prescribed melatonin to help children fall asleep. For many it's a revelation.

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'You can't do this to people': Sixties Scoop survivors tell their stories in Winnipeg

Shannon Marks and her mother Linda Dwyer may be together today, but they are still working at putting together the pieces of a relationship torn apart for more than two decades.

Marks and her baby sister were taken from Dwyer in 1969, in what we now call the Sixties Scoop.

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Currently over 7 million U.S. children are being prescribed psychiatric drugs, with more than 600 thousand between the ages of zero to five.

With more than 7 million kids on psychiatric drugs in the U.S., the mental health watchdog, CCHR, is protesting this surge in labeling and drugging of children.

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Psychiatrist over-medicated hundreds of children in his care, search warrant says

Unlike many doctors, Albuquerque psychiatrist Edwin Bacon Hall, 74, accepted patients on Medicaid and saw them in a timely manner. He often treated foster children, who were sent his way with the approval of their legal guardian, the Children Youth and Families Department (CYFD).

On at least one occasion in his office, he prescribed drugs while dressed as a clown. But what really drew attention was his habit of handing out pills.

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Government Violating Court Order To Stop Drugging Children In Immigrant Detention Center, Suit Claims

A federal judge issued an order at the end of July that requires the government to stop medicating children being held in detention centers without permission from a parent or legal guardian — among other things — but recent information out of a Texas shelter indicates they are failing to do so.

According to Reveal News, U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee stated on July 30 that children being held at the Shiloh Treatment Center were not allowed to be kept medicated on psychiatric drugs unless a parent had given permission, or a court order was issued to do so for every individual child. Gee also ordered that any of the children in the facility who are not considered to be a danger to either themselves or others should be moved to “less restrictive housing,” and that they should all be allowed to make private phone calls.

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Study: Youngest Children in Classrooms Frequently Mislabeled as ADHD – Drugged

A recent study made some international mainstream papers recently that warned of medicating children misdiagnosed as ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), simply because they were the youngest students in their class.

UK’s online Daily Mail included a quote from the lead author of that study, Dr. Martin Whitely, who stated:

“It appears that across the globe some teachers are mistaking the immaturity of the youngest children in their class for ADHD. Although teachers don’t diagnose it, they are often the first to suggest a child may have ADHD.”

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Psychiatric Drugs Harm Children Says Panel on World Mental Health Day

On World Mental Health Day, October 10th, a panel of experts spoke out against the psychiatric drugging of youth at the Church of Scientology Tampa in Ybor Square. The panel included Diane Stein, President Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) Florida, local physician Dr. Richard Wallace, School Principal Barbie Rivera, and Clinical Psychologist Dr. Candace Stewart-Sabin. They addressed a group of over 50 mental health professionals, child advocacy/education specialists and interested citizens.

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Police: Third preschool worker arrested for not reporting the drugging of children

Pennsylvania police have arrested a third preschool worker after it was discovered the employee knew the owner was putting sleeping pills in children's lunches, a criminal complaint said.

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Arizona cancels vaccine program after backlash from parents who don't vaccinate

The state of Arizona has canceled a vaccine education program after receiving complaints from parents who don't immunize their school-age children.

The pilot online course, modeled after programs in Oregon and Michigan, was created in response to the rising number of Arizona schoolchildren skipping school-required immunizations against diseases like measles, mumps and whooping cough because of their parents' beliefs.

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Psychiatric Drugs Harm Children Says Panel on World Mental Health Day

On World Mental Health Day, October 10th, a panel of experts spoke out against the psychiatric drugging of youth at the Church of Scientology Tampa in Ybor Square. The panel included Diane Stein, President Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) Florida, local physician Dr. Richard Wallace, School Principal Barbie Rivera, and Clinical Psychologist Dr. Candace Stewart-Sabin. They addressed a group of over 50 mental health professionals, child advocacy/education specialists and interested citizens.

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Maine filmmakers tell the story of children with behavioral issues

There is no shortage of problems in this world that don’t get the attention they deserve, and one of them is how to deal with children with serious behavioral and emotional challenges. Lone Wolf Media in South Portland has just finished a documentary on the subject called “The Kids We Lose,” which looks at the struggles faced not just by kids, but also by parents, teachers, administrators, police, and mental health experts.

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• http://www.thekidswelose.com/

Children diagnosed with ADHD on the rise

More children are being diagnosed with ADHD than 20 years ago and a Boston doctor says that could be a good thing.

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