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]

Kids with`ADHD' being caged by drugs, Thornbury photographer says

Kids with`ADHD' being caged by drugs, Thornbury photographer says

DRUGGING energetic children so they comply to classroom activities should be stamped out, says Thornbury photographer Sean O’Carroll.

Health department schedules immunization clinics

In an effort to increase the immunization rates for school-age children, the Harford County Health Department will be holding early Back-to School Immunization Clinics for uninsured and underinsured students.

Health department schedules immunization clinics

ADA: Antipsychotics Change Metabolism in Kids

Antipsychotics appear to increase body fat and increase the risk of metabolic abnormalities in children and adolescents, researchers said here.

ADA: Antipsychotics Change Metabolism in Kids

Psychiatrists are the least effective of mental health professionals, says consultant psychologist

Psychiatrists are the least effective of all mental health professionals, a consultant clinical psychologist has claimed.

Psychiatrists are the least effective of mental health professionals, says consultant psychologist

Psychiatric Drugging of Foster Kids

52% of kids in foster care are being prescribed dangerous and deadly psychiatric drugs. Many are on cocktails of prescribed drugs, including antipsychotics and antidepressants with documented side effects of diabetes, stroke, mania, psychosis, tumors, coma, suicide and death.

Bipolar label soars among kids

Someday, Jenna Beckman's daughter might be diagnosed with bipolar disorder, an incurable swaying between manic rage and depression. But it won't be now, at age 8.

Bipolar label soars among kids

My Thoughts on ADHD and the Drugging of Children

Uncensored, unscripted rant about ADHD, why I think it's basically a fraud foisted upon the public by Big Pharma. Sure to cause some controversy.

Guest commentary: Children diagnosed with ADHD may just be advanced creative thinkers

Guest commentary: Children diagnosed with ADHD may just be advanced creative thinkers

The medical profession is responding to research verifying that millions of children have been misdiagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

Food Coloring and ADHD - No Known Link, But Wider Safety Issues Remain

When University of Maryland psychologist Andrea Chronis-Tuscano testified before a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) hearing last March, it changed her mind about possible risks of artificial food coloring for children, and drove her to look more closely at the products in her own pantry that she feeds her kids.

Food Coloring and ADHD - No Known Link, But Wider Safety Issues Remain

Stealth Vaccine Laws Allow Children to Consent to Vaccines

Stealth Vaccine Laws Allow Children to Consent to Vaccines

A current California bill, AB 499, would “allow a minor who is 12 years of age or older to consent to medical care related to the prevention of a sexually transmitted disease.”[1] That is, children as young as 12 will be able to get a Gardasil or other STD vaccine without their parents’ knowledge or consent if this bill passes. Disturbingly, North Carolina has a much broader child consent law already on the books: “Any minor may give effective consent . . . for medical health services for the prevention . . . of venereal disease and other [reportable] diseases…”[2] I call these laws “Stealth Vaccine Laws” because they provide for the administration of vaccines without the word “vaccine” or “immunization” appearing in the law. Thus, they may slip under the radar of anti-vaccine activists doing electronic searches for vaccine bills and laws using those terms.

How Children Get ADHD Was Once Thought To Be The Flu

Let’s take a walk back in time to 1919 in a rural schoolhouse. Mrs. Smith has fifteen students half of which have the primary ADHD symptoms of hyperactivity, inattentiveness, and impulsivity.

How Children Get ADHD Was Once Thought To Be The Flu

ADHD Drug Side Effects- Looking At The Valid And Safer Alternatives.

by Robert William Locke

There is a lot of concern nowadays about ADHD drug side effects. This is because they are powerful mind altering drugs and their effects on the child's whole development is causing a lot of worry and angst. Others say that only about 30% of children on these drugs cannot stand the side effects but that seems to be a very high percentage to me.

Over 5 million children in the USA and about 20 million kids worldwide are now branded with the label ADHD. They seem to have attention problems, are hyperactive and are also disruptive which, according to the ADHD deniers, they are just being typical children. As the vast majority of these children are on prescribed drugs, we can see why there is so much worry and concern.

Those who insist that there is a biological/neurological disorder which must be medicated, represent the other extreme view. These are usually in the pay of the drug companies and include teachers, doctors and parents too who are recruited to appear on Facebook and pretend that they are bona fide parents of children with ADHD.

The pharmaceutical industry is so afraid of the backlash from worried parents that they have even paid for research which sets out to discredit the homeopathic and herbal remedies. It is not surprising really, given that there are millions of dollars involved.

What are the ADHD drug side effects?

These range from sleepiness during the day and then sleepless nights. There is also a negative effect on appetite and there are reports of stunted growth among these children. There may be nausea, psychotic episodes, suicidal thinking, cardiac events and also depression. Some children feel zombie like and cannot wait to get off these drugs.

ADHD drug side effects may also involve an addiction for substance abuse given that these drugs are basically amphetamines.

In a damning report which runs to over 700 pages, the Drug Effectiveness Review of Oregon State University actually did over 2,000 studies on whether the ADHD drug side effects were worth the risk. They found that they were not worth very much at all and there did not seem to be any conclusive evidence that they actually helped at all!

Basically they were not helpful in the long run and were just about managing the symptoms, which is what the drug companies claim. But is that enough? Can that justify drugging the nation's children?

Other studies have shown that the effects of ADHD drugs wear off after about three years and the child is put on stronger medication or just left to cope.

In conclusion, we can only say parents should read more and find out what the alternatives to the side effects of ADHD drugs are. There is a very simple answer which I have explained on my website. Why not check it out?

Love, cherish and protect your child. Experts now tell us that natural ADHD treatments . combined with child behavior modification techniques is by far the most effective ADHD treatment. Robert Locke has written extensively on ADHD and Mental Health for many years. For more parenting and ADHD advice, visit :- http://natural-adhd-cure.com

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

STOP Drugging the Children

Created on May 25, 2011 using FlipShare.

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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.

Drugging kids for parents' rhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifelief called abusive

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.