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

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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.

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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.

Please join the campaign to end this insanity at The Kick Them All Out Project http://www.KickThemAllOut.com

FDA weighs new dose info for kids' pain relievers

Federal health officials are considering adding dosing instructions for children younger than 2 years old to Children's Tylenol and similar products, a change favored by drugmakers and many doctors.

FDA weighs new dose info for kids' pain relievers

Maryland medical board upholds autism doctor's suspension

Maryland medical board upholds autism doctor's suspension

A geneticist who has used the hormone-suppressing drug Lupron to treat children with autism failed Wednesday to persuade the Maryland Board of Physicians to lift its summary suspension of his medical license.

Wyoming cutting free vaccines for insured children

Wyoming is cutting the types of vaccinations, including flu shots, available for free to children who have health insurance.

Wyoming cutting free vaccines for insured children

Drug Combo May Help Treat Kids With ADHD

So they say...

Drug Combo May Help Treat Kids With ADHD

Combining an extended-release version of the blood pressure pill clonidine with a stimulant may benefit children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) who are not getting adequate relief from stimulants alone, according to a new study.

FDA Panel Discusses Ethics of Pediatric Drug Trials

A panel of pediatricians and pediatric ethicists met Wednesday to discuss the ethically complicated issue of testing new drugs in children.

FDA Panel Discusses Ethics of Pediatric Drug Trials

Author Robert Whitaker questions the benefits of antipsychotic medications

Author Robert Whitaker questions the benefits of antipsychotic medications

Journalist and author Robert Whitaker used to think it was unethical for doctors to take schizophrenia patients off their medication. Having cofounded a publishing company in the 1990s that reported on clinical trials, he likened the removal of antipsychotic drugs to taking a diabetic off insulin. And that’s how he covered this issue in a Pulitzer Prize–nominated series of freelance articles for the Boston Globe in 1998.

Rowing parents 'harm' children's sleep

Rowing parents 'harm' children's sleep

Parents who argue are more likely to have babies with troubled sleeping patterns, research suggests.


Bickering Couples Disrupt Infants' Sleep Patterns And Affect Child Development - New Study

Babies given anti-obesity drugs in the womb

Babies given anti-obesity drugs in the womb

Babies to be given diet drug in the womb to stop them being born overweight in trial described as ‘disturbing’ by weight loss groups.

Parents sue over medical subsidies for special-needs kids

Parents sue over medical subsidies for special-needs kids

A group of Michigan parents sued the state Tuesday in federal court, saying the Department of Human Services failed to payadequate medical subsidies for special-needs children.

Tylenol and other products to simplify children’s medication

Tylenol and other products to simplify children’s medication

In the past moms have had to decide which Tylenol product was right for their child: Were they small enough to be given the concentrated infant’s drops? Were they old enough to have the children’s formula that was not concentrated?

S. Korean Study Suggests Autism Rate May Be Much Higher

An estimated one in 38 South Korean children -- or 2.6 percent -- has an autism spectrum disorder, a new study says -- figures that experts believe could be similar in the United States.

S. Korean Study Suggests Autism Rate May Be Much Higher

Overweight Pregnant Women Being Given Trial Drug to Prevent Obese Babies

National Health Service in England is conducting a controversial new trial in which overweight pregnant women are being given a drug that aims to reduce the risk of childhood obesity in their unborn babies.

Overweight Pregnant Women Being Given Trial Drug to Prevent Obese Babies

Generic Adderall XR Shortage Leaves ADHD Patients Scrambling

A nationwide shortage of the generic form of Adderall XR, a drug used for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children and adults, has sent many patients scrambling from pharmacy to pharmacy to find it and left others wondering what they'll do if their pharmacies run out.

Generic Adderall XR Shortage Leaves ADHD Patients Scrambling

How New Are The New Diagnoses for Child Bipolar Disorder?

Ellen Leibenluft, M.D. is an important exception to Upton Sinclair's maxim, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it." As the Chief of the Section on Bipolar Spectrum Disorders at NIMH, she might be understood as having a vested interest in promoting the existence and study of bipolar disorder in children and adolescents. Instead, she has been a vigorous advocate for several major studies expected to lead to results that would significantly diminish the use of the bipolar disorder diagnosis in childhood. She provided the impetus for recent follow up studies in which chronically aggressive, irritable children were followed over time. Chronic severe anger and irritability in children and adolescents are the most frequent sources of the misdiagnosis of bipolar disorder in children and adolescents.

How New Are The New Diagnoses for Child Bipolar Disorder?

Viagra to be used for children

Viagra to be used for children

The European commission has approved treating children Viagra for a rare, deadly lung condition.

State looks to remove autism panelist with links to suspended doctor

A day after Dr. Mark Geier's medical license was suspended in Maryland over allegations of putting children with autism at risk, state officials were seeking to remove his son from a state commission that advises the governor on the disorder.

State looks to remove autism panelist with links to suspended doctor

Drugmakers to End Infant Formulas of Products With Acetaminophen

The makers of cold and fever medications that contain the painkiller acetaminophen said Wednesday night that they will discontinue infant-drops versions of the products to avoid confusion that might lead to overdoses, the Associated Press reported.

Drugmakers to End Infant Formulas of Products With Acetaminophen

No More Infant Dose of Over-the-Counter Acetaminophen

FDA issues new rules to make children's drugs safer

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration wants to make it a little harder for the medicine to go down. Over-the-counter children's medicine, that is, such as cough syrups, pain relievers, and cold remedies. It's released new guidelines saying such remedies should include a device that helps minimize the risk of overdose.

FDA issues new rules to make children's drugs safer

Another Prescription Drug Abuse Problem: The Overmedication of Foster Kids

Recently the Obama administration announced that it is taking action to address the growing problem of prescription drug abuse. Of course this is good news, and more must be done to raise awareness of this issue and crack down on those who abuse the system. It reminded me of another problem related to prescription drug use: the inappropriate use of psychotropic drugs for children in foster care.

Another Prescription Drug Abuse Problem: The Overmedication of Foster Kids

The Use of Prescription Drugs in Children

“In June 2003, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, following the lead of its British counterpart, issued warnings specifically about Paxil, saying no one under age 18 should be prescribed the drug for major depression because it might increase a child's risk of suicide. […] Mary Anne Rhyne, a GlaxoSmithKline spokeswoman, told The Star-Ledger that the sales force was told not to discuss the safety concerns because Paxil was approved only for use in adults. ‘Our sales reps are prohibited from discussing, sharing or leaving behind off-label information with health-care providers,’ Rhyne told the newspaper. Deviations from officially approved uses are called off-label use. But like many drugs officially approved only for use in a particular group of patients or for a specific disease, doctors sometimes prescribed Paxil for people under age 18. An official with the FDA's Office of Drug Safety told an advisory panel meeting two weeks ago that 8 percent of all antidepressant prescriptions in the first half of this year were for people under 18.” (Paxil warning Suppressed, The Associated Press, September 2004, http://newsobserver.com/business/story/1686138p-7930169c.html)

The Use of Prescription Drugs in Children

Board: Drug therapy for children with autism was risky

A doctor nationally known for treating autism with a drug sometimes used to chemically castrate sex offenders has been suspended from practicing medicine in his home state of Maryland after state officials determined he is putting children at risk.

Board: Drug therapy for children with autism was risky

Do ADHD Kids Abuse Drugs More Often?

Scientific research studies, with their graphs, tables and numbers, give us a solid kind of feeling. Scientific research somehow feels hard and weighty, while fiction feels soft and fluffy. Lately, however, I've come to think that research studies are not all that different from more explicitly fictional sort of narratives. Like stories, research papers have a beginning, a middle and an end. The author or authors of a research paper construct a story about what the data says. It is widely accepted that many different stories can be constructed from the same data, depending on the author's point of view or what he is predisposed to discover. As Mark Twain famously remarked, "facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable."

Do ADHD Kids Abuse Drugs More Often?

FDA warns about teething drugs for babies

FDA warns about teething drugs for babies

The Food and Drug Administration said children under two should not use products with benzocaine, unless a doctor gives an okay.

15 Ritalin Facts Every Parent Needs to Know

Interesting article that was brought to my attention on www.rncentral.com. “Ritalin has been the prescription drug of choice for ADD and ADHD patients for decades now, and has been considered overall safe for use among those prescribed. However, not all parents, doctors, and professionals agree that Ritalin is perfectly safe or effective. Read on to learn about important Ritalin facts and controversies.

15 Ritalin Facts Every Parent Needs to Know

The Fraudulent Nature Of Psychiatric Labels Exposed By Human Rights Group

Brian Beaumont, who is in charge of Public Affairs for CCHR, sent out a press release on Monday, April 25, 2011 to announce: "The Fraudulent Nature Of Psychiatric Labels Exposed By Human Rights Group"

The Fraudulent Nature Of Psychiatric Labels Exposed By Human Rights Group

Government Muscle

Government Muscle

Forest Labs is a pharmaceutical company based out of New York City. Among their best-selling products are antidepressants known as Celexa and Lexapro. Two years ago, Forest was sued under the federal False Claims Act for marketing these drugs to both adults and children, even though the government had only approved them for use with adults. The suit alleged that Forest promoted these drugs with a “sock puppet” favorable study pushed to the American Journal of Psychiatry, and engaged in various kickback schemes with doctors.

Overdose Risk for Young Children on Prescription Pain Drugs

Infants and young children who require prescription pain medications may be at risk for overdose because of dosing errors.

Overdose Risk for Young Children on Prescription Pain Drugs

Young Kids' Prescriptions Not Always on the Mark

For tiniest tots, indicated dosage for narcotics is too high 40 percent of the time, study finds

Young Kids' Prescriptions Not Always on the Mark

Young infants frequently receive overdose amounts of narcotics

Dosage amounts of narcotic drugs dispensed by pharmacies are often incorrect, with the youngest infants receiving at least twice the expected dose 20% of the time, according to findings presented here at the Pediatric Academic Societies' Annual Meeting 2011.

Young infants frequently receive overdose amounts of narcotics

ADHD “CALL IN” LINE: MISLEADING THE PUBLIC TO REINFORCE A $1.3 BILLION A YEAR CHILD DRUGGING CASH COW

ADHD “CALL IN” LINE: MISLEADING THE PUBLIC TO REINFORCE A $1.3 BILLION A YEAR CHILD DRUGGING CASH COW

Yes it is.

Drugging the Children for Over 200 Years

Drugging the Children for Over 200 Years

If you thought the notion of drugging our children was a new one... well... you might be surprised because it has been going on a long while. It has just gotten more "high tech" and controlled now. School counselors and doctors team up with pharmaceutical companies to spread the word like Paul Revere with the call of "Take a pill!" "Take a pill!"

Parents Should Know Dangers Of Prescription Drugs

Every day, 2,500 young Americans start abusing prescription drugs for the first time. Many of them are getting high by simply opening up the family medicine cabinet.

Parents Should Know Dangers Of Prescription Drugs

High court questions constitutionality of drug data-mining law

High court questions constitutionality of drug data-mining law

The Supreme Court cast doubt Tuesday on efforts by states to limit drug manufacturers' use of information about the prescription drugs that doctors like to prescribe.

The children who hate their bodies: How half of six-year-old girls think they're fat and how parents can stop this dangerous obsession

Yesterday, we revealed how exposure to pornography is poisoning young minds. Now, in the final part of our series on the sexualisation of children, Tanith Carey shows how girls are growing up with a more negative body image than ever before - and gives practical tips on what parents can do to nip it in the bud...

The children who hate their bodies: How half of six-year-old girls think they're fat and how parents can stop this dangerous obsession

Georgia Foster Kids’ Psych Drug Use Under Review

More than a third of foster children in Georgia are prescribed psychotropic drugs — medications like antidepressants and mood stabilizers. Because so many foster children are using the drugs, a new review aims to provide better oversight over their usage.

Georgia Foster Kids’ Psych Drug Use Under Review

Recent Birth Defect Study May Signal Future Zoloft Lawsuit

According to an MSNBC article, a growing concern over drugs like Zoloft taken during pregnancy has many women wondering if the anxiety relief of these drugs is worth the risks of birth defects to the developing infant, which include “persistent pulmonary hypertension, a condition in which there are problems with the baby's blood circulation, and not enough oxygen reaches the bloodstream, resulting in respiratory difficulties.” The Mayo Clinic also explains this type of medication can lead to rare but serious side effects, including “septal heart defects,” “a birth defect that affects the brain and skull (anencephaly), a birth defect that affect sutures on the head (craniosynostosis) and a birth defect that affects the abdominal organs (omphalocele).”

Recent Birth Defect Study May Signal Future Zoloft Lawsuit

Are We Drugging Children for Normal Behavior?

In the 1970s and '80s, students who could not sit still or acted out were called hyperactive. By the 1990s, there was a diagnosis: attention deficit disorder. Now it’s called ADD/ADHD. The “H” stands for hyperactive.

Are We Drugging Children for Normal Behavior?

Medication Use During Pregnancy Is Increasing

An increasing number of women are using medications during pregnancy, according to a new study recently released online in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. The rise in medication use among pregnant women potentially places their children in harm’s way.

Medication Use During Pregnancy Is Increasing

ADHD med shortage a nuisance for docs, patients

A shortage of generic stimulants to treat ADHD has caused frustrations for children and adults with the disorder over the past few months. There have been scattered reports of patients going a few days without their medicine, or having to call multiple pharmacies to find their drugs in stock. Others are forced to switch to more expensive brand-name versions because the generic supplies are so low.

ADHD med shortage a nuisance for docs, patients

McEntee: Does ‘happy’ Utah foster more suicides?

Far and away, the core cause of suicide is severe mental illness — depression, bipolar and anxiety disorders, substance abuse and anorexia.

A new study, however, puts another element into the mix, suggesting that living in a “happy” place like Utah can make “discontented” people feel badly treated by life, as one of its authors put it.

McEntee: Does ‘happy’ Utah foster more suicides?

Ah yes... The world we live in...

Kids With ADHD May Use Drugs and Alcohol More Often

Two recent studies find that being diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in childhood may predict a child's likelihood of later dependence on nicotine, alcohol or other drugs.

Kids With ADHD May Use Drugs and Alcohol More Often

Kids with ADHD more likely to use drugs, analysis finds

Children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder are up to three times more likely than other kids to use, abuse or become dependent on substances such as nicotine, cocaine and marijuana in adolescence and as young adults, new research suggests.

Kids with ADHD more likely to use drugs, analysis finds

Does Your Baby Cry Too Much at Night? It Could Signal Future Behavior Problems

Does Your Baby Cry Too Much at Night? It Could Signal Future Behavior Problems

Crying and waking up in the middle of night are routine during any newborn's first few months. But if those wailing episodes continue on a regular basis past the first year, then they may signal possible behavioral problems down the road.

Drug injection delays puberty

Children with supposed “Gender Identity Disorder” (GID), a rare condition involving sexual confusion, that are having a hard time deciding whether they want to be male or female can now choose to artificially delay puberty while they figure it out. A recent report in The Telegraph explains that a monthly drug injection will prevent sexual development in children to give them more time to make up their minds about having a sex change — and kids as young as 12 are eligible to receive it.

Drug injection delays puberty
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UK Approves Clinic to Treat Children With Puberty-blocking Drug

A clinic in the United Kingdom that specializes in treating individuals suffering from “Gender Identity Disorder” (GID) has been given approval by the country’s National Research Ethics Service to prescribe a puberty-blocking drug to children as young as 12 who say they are confused about whether they are male or female.

Psychiatrist Patrick McGorry Ticked Off CCHR’s Busted Him Over Bogus “Early Intervention” Claims

It would appear that Australian psychiatrist Patrick McGorry [originally an Irish born lad] doesn’t like it when he is brought to task regarding his early intervention claims [He can predict if a child can get a mental disorder in later years you know]

Psychiatrist Patrick McGorry Ticked Off CCHR’s Busted Him Over Bogus “Early Intervention” Claims

Why is There a Shortage of ADHD Drugs?

Why is There a Shortage of ADHD Drugs?

Pharmacies in Indiana and across the country are running low on medications used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

CCHR: All Fall Down: Psychiatry's Plague Of Drugging Children

In the UK, children are under assault, diagnosed with fraudulent mental disorders and forced onto dangerous and addictive psychotropic drugs.

With prescription sales rocketing and government screening programmes on the rise, the stimulent drug industry is big business, raking in over £33 million a year in the UK alone.

But how much is this plague costing our children?

Are prescription ads prompting patients to self-diagnose

A study done by Consumer Reports shows one in five people go into a doctor's office asking for a prescription, by name, before ever being diagnosed.

Babies' Persistent Fussiness Could Mean Behavioral Woes Ahead

Excessive sleeping, feeding or crying troubles during infancy are associated with a greatly increased risk for behavioral problems later in childhood, research suggests.

Babies' Persistent Fussiness Could Mean Behavioral Woes Ahead

I'm sure lots of other things do too.

Eye surgery mistake

A family is hoping their young son will recover after a doctor performed surgery on the child's wrong eye

HIV study claims one in eight children resistant to drugs

First major study of young people with HIV questions the suitability of anti-retroviral drugs for young sufferers

HIV study claims one in eight children resistant to drugs

Genetic Testing For Kids: Should You Unlock Your Child’s DNA?

If you could use genetic testing to peer into your child’s future and get a glimpse of her likely health risks, would you do it? Many parents would, according to a new study.

Genetic Testing For Kids: Should You Unlock Your Child’s DNA?

10-year-old knows all about drugs - and that's good news

Mohammed al Suwaidi's parents are not worried that their 10-year-old son knows more about marijuana and nicotine than most adults.

Yesterday, their child was awarded a trophy by the National Rehabilitation Centre (NRC) and got to meet his favourite sports star, Brazilian striker Baré from the Al Jazira football club.

10-year-old knows all about drugs - and that's good news

CVS to pay $17.5M over inflated Medicaid claims

CVS to pay $17.5M over inflated Medicaid claims

CVS Pharmacy, the pharmacy division of CVS Caremark Corp., will pay $17.5 million to the United States and 10 states to settle False Claims Act accusations, the Department of Justice announced late Friday afternoon.