Legal, Widespread, and Dangerous: Drugging Kids in Foster Care

Years ago, rubbing a little brandy on the gums of a teething child was thought to soothe and do no lasting harm. Parents of today who disapprove should be aware of just how often children are prescribed powerful, mind-altering medicines.

Legal, Widespread, and Dangerous: Drugging Kids in Foster Care

Letter: Beware over-medication of youth

The psychiatric community has been increasingly labeling our children with ADHD, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and depression and putting these kids on strong psychotropic medications.

Letter: Beware over-medication of youth

Ban Forced Psychiatric Medication in Kids

Ban Forced Psychiatric Medication in Kids

HR.2769 - Parental Consent Act of 2011 - Prohibits federal funds from being used to establish or implement any universal or mandatory mental health, psychiatric, or socioemotional screening program.

The Drug Companies' Newest Profit Weapon to Steal Your Money

The drug industry spends nearly twice as much on promotion as it does on research and development, and historically one of their key targets has been physicians.

The Drug Companies' Newest Profit Weapon to Steal Your Money

I Drug Kids From Home and Earn $1,750,000 per Year!

Stan, the millionaire TeenScreen psychiatrist, breaks his silence to reveal his AMAZING child drugging money making secrets!!

I Drug Kids From Home and Earn $1,750,000 per Year!

The Psychiatric Drugging of America's Foster Children

The Psychiatric Drugging of America's Foster Children

The most vulnerable among us are the littlest victims. Young children, torn from their birth families through various, often unspeakable tragedies. These children end up in state supervised foster care and too often are passed from hand to hand, house to house. There were approximately 662,000 children in foster care in the United States in 2010.

Dark Secrets: Treating Foster Care Children Like Medical Lab Rats

Medical experiments conducted on vulnerable people, people who are unable to give consent or people who have been misled, are always wrong. It is also wrong when there is reason to believe that the person undergoing the experiment faces serious risks as a result. If you put the two together you have something we used to call a crime. In fact, we prosecuted the Nazis for this behavior.

Dark Secrets: Treating Foster Care Children Like Medical Lab Rats

Shame of a nation: US tested AIDS drugs on foster children

This is a shameful story. It follows a history in this country of the government subjecting individuals to cruel medical and drug tests. I’m reminded of the Tuskegee syphilis experiments conducted between 1932 and 1972 (see photo above).

Shame of a nation: US tested AIDS drugs on foster children

Revised DSM-5 Could Open Up Wider Legal Claims

Revised DSM-5 Could Open Up Wider Legal Claims

The American Psychiatric Association is revising its highly influential Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, currently known as DSM-IV (the fifth version will be “DSM-V” or, since a switch to Arabic numbering is planned, “DSM-5″). Nearly 8,000 persons have signed a petition, sponsored by the Society for Humanistic Psychology, Division 32 of the American Psychological Association, which challenges the revision’s proposed widening of the definitions of mental disorder. The letter associated with the petition warns that the revision proposes to lower diagnostic thresholds for many categories of disorder without good reason, as well as introducing new constructs such as “Internet Addiction Disorder” that have “no basis in the empirical literature.” The expansion could lead to inappropriate medical treatment as well as other ill effects.

Experts say Utah foster children are not over medicated

An ABC investigation uncovers disturbing numbers on how many foster kids nationwide may be severely overmedicated. Some children receiving the anti-depressants and antipsychotic drugs were under the age of two. Utah experts say not here.

Experts say Utah foster children are not over medicated

The drugging of foster kids

Foster children in Florida prescribed psychotropic drugs at far higher rates in 2008

Foster Kids Are Overly Medicated, Report Says This one is from Fox News.

Same article from the Wall Street Journal Foster Kids Are Overly Medicated, Report Says

Foster Kids Given Psychiatric Drugs At Higher Rates

Foster Kids Get Unneeded Psych Drugs, GAO Says

Foster Kids At Risk For Receiving Psychotropic Drugs

Foster Kids in Texas Getting Way Too Many Psychiactric Drugs

Foster Kids Given Psychiatric Drugs At Higher Rates

Foster Care Children Fall Victim to Drug Companies

Foster children more likely to be prescribed psychotropic drugs than non-foster children, GAO study finds

Foster children prescribed more psychotropic drugs than children not in state care, study says


Siouxland Woman Speaks Out Against Medicating Foster Kids

Stop drugging foster kids into a stupor

Feds Fail To Protect Foster Kids From Potent Psych Meds

Overmedicating Foster Kids: The Cost of Skimping on Care

Mind-Altering Psych Drugs for a 7-Year-Old



FDA Drug Limit Exceeded in Foster Children

Foster Kids and Meds: Doctors Questioned



Foster children prescribed more psychiatric drugs







U.S. report: Foster kids get high rate of psych meds

New report suggests overdosing of those in custody

Foster Children Given Harmful Antipsychotics and Tranquilizers as Frequently as Mentally Disabled

Children in foster care being controlled by excessive drugging

Examining the Costs of Medicating America’s Foster Children

Boy, 12, Tells Congress of Years on ‘Stupid’ Meds

Antipsychotic drugs may lead to a heightened risk of diabetes in kids, according to new research.

Antipsychotic drugs may lead to a heightened risk of diabetes in kids, according to new research.

Antipsychotic drugs may lead to a heightened risk of diabetes in kids, according to new research.

Antipsychotic drugs are used in children to treat conditions such as autism and bipolar disorder. The new findings agree with previous research suggesting that in addition to causing weight gain in kids, these drugs could increase the risk of diabetes in some patients.

When moms on welfare work, kids may lag in vaccines

When moms on welfare work, their children may be somewhat less likely to get their vaccinations on time, a new study suggests.

When moms on welfare work, kids may lag in vaccines

Medical mafia in Australia to force parents to medicate ADHD children

The typical treatment recommendation for children diagnosed with psychiatric or mental health conditions such as bipolar disorder or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) includes a combination of behavior and drug therapies. Such treatments are legally optional, but the Australian government’s National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) is actually considering mandating that parents of diagnosed children accept the prescribed drug treatments or else face the wrath of child protective services.

Medical mafia in Australia to force parents to medicate ADHD children

Antipsychotic Drug Use an Indicator of National Decline

eady for a shock? Twenty-five percent of American women take medication for a mental disorder. Think about that. Let me repeat: One in four—a quarter of the women in America—take at least one antipsychotic drug. Some take several drugs.

Antipsychotic Drug Use an Indicator of National Decline

Diabetes Mellitus In Children Linked To Antipsychotic Meds: Study

Diabetes mellitus in children may be tied to them increasingly being prescribed antipsychotic medications, a study suggests.

Diabetes Mellitus In Children Linked To Antipsychotic Meds: Study

Drugs Used for Psychotics Go to Youths in Foster Care

Drugs Used for Psychotics Go to Youths in Foster Care

Foster children are being prescribed cocktails of powerful antipsychosis drugs just as frequently as some of the most mentally disabled youngsters on Medicaid, a new study suggests.

Canadian Kids are All on Drugs

The number of prescriptions for antipsychotic drugs for kids in Canada more than doubled between 2005 and 2010. A study in the journal Pediatrics & Child Health shows that the number of prescriptions jumped 114 per cent across those years, despite most antipsychotics not being cleared for use in Canada among people younger than 17. The drugs are used to offset the symptoms of attention deficit hyperactive disorder, autism, mood disorders, and all manner of behavioural problems in kids as young as six. According to Postmedia‘s Sharon Kirkey and Pamela Fayerman:

Canadian Kids are All on Drugs

Refuse vaccines and risk dismissal by doctor

It's not unusual for a patient to change doctors. Doctors retire, families move, insurance changes.

Refuse vaccines and risk dismissal by doctor

Doctors see surge in newborns hooked on mothers' pain pills

Medical authorities are witnessing explosive growth in the number of newborn babies hooked on prescription painkillers, innocent victims of their mothers' addictions.


Doctors see surge in newborns hooked on mothers' pain pills

British TV survey exposes drugging of children

Almost immediately after the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) scandal emerges about its withholding of information regarding the safety of vaccines, another tale of needless drug exposure gets the spotlight treatment. There is worry now as pharmaceutical companies block approaches made to the authorities with regards to any data outlining the long-term effects of antipsychotic drugs on children.

British TV survey exposes drugging of children

Study: Millions of Kids' Antibiotic Prescriptions Unneeded

Pediatricians write more than 10 million unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions—for conditions like the flu and asthma—every year, suggests a new study.

Study: Millions of Kids' Antibiotic Prescriptions Unneeded

STATE OF CONFUSION ON CHILD DRUGGING

Shoddy record-keeping by the Department of Juvenile Justice is hampering the agency’s own investigation into the dosing of jailed children with powerful antipsychotic drugs, the department’s head told a top state lawmaker this week.

STATE OF CONFUSION ON CHILD DRUGGING

Over-reliance on Psychiatric Medication in Children: A Pediatrician's View

Over-reliance on Psychiatric Medication in Children: A Pediatrician's View

This weekend I was scheduled to speak at a conference in LA sponsored by the International Society for Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry entitled "Alternatives to Biological Psychiatry." Unfortunately, due to a family emergency, I was unable to attend. As I had already prepared my talk, I decided to translate it into a blog post.

Federal Government Wants To Test Anthrax Vaccine On Children

Terrorists could use the potentially deadly Anthrax bacteria on an attack against the United States, and there is plenty of vaccine stockpiled for use against this and other possible biological agents of warfare. However they have never been tested on children so the effectiveness and possible side effects of the vaccines are unknown in children.

Federal Government Wants To Test Anthrax Vaccine On Children

The Diagnosing and Drugging of 'ADHD' Children -- An American Tragedy Worsens

The Diagnosing and Drugging of 'ADHD' Children -- An American Tragedy Worsens

The diagnosing of millions of children with ADHD in order to medicate them with stimulants and other psychoactive chemicals is an American tragedy, growing into a worldwide catastrophe. Never before in history has a society attempted to deal with its children by drugging a significant portion of them into conformity while failing to meet their needs in the home, school and society. The ethical scientist or physician, the concerned parent or teacher, must feel stricken with grief and dumbfounded that we have allowed the interests of powerful advocacy groups to completely override the interests of our children.

Report Finds Parent Training Effective for Treating Young Children With ADHD

Formal training in parenting strategies is a low-risk, effective method for improving behavior in preschool-age children at risk for developing attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), while there is less evidence supporting the use of medications for children younger than 6 years old, according to a new report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).

Report Finds Parent Training Effective for Treating Young Children With ADHD

Labeling tantrums a mental illness doesn't help

Dr. Claudia M. Gold is a pediatrician and author of "Keeping Your Child in Mind: Overcoming Defiance, Tantrums and Other Everyday Behavior Problems by Seeing the World Through Your Child's Eyes."

Labeling tantrums a mental illness doesn't help

Maine doctor protests national anthrax testing on children

The Obama administration is wrestling with the thorny question of whether scientists should inject healthy children with the anthrax vaccine to see whether the shots would safely protect them against a bioterrorism attack.

Maine doctor protests national anthrax testing on children

CDC Panel May Push HPV Vaccine for Boys

CDC Panel May Push HPV Vaccine for Boys

A committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is set to decide today whether to recommend routinely vaccinating boys and young men against sexually transmitted forms of human papillomavirus, the cause of most cervical and anal cancers as well as most mouth and throat cancers.

We are drugging our children for being children

Re: New rules drop age for use of Ritalin-type drugs, Oct. 17

These new guidelines issued to doctors for prescribing psychostimulant drugs to children as young as four are a step in the wrong direction.

We are drugging our children for being children

More Than One in Ten Americans Take an Antidepressant

11% of Americans aged 12 and up now take an antidepressant medication, though less than one third of them have seen a mental-health professional in the past year.

More Than One in Ten Americans Take an Antidepressant

Stephen Cook asks 'Are Psychotropic Drugs Killing our Kids?'

There is an issue of utmost urgency, to which I would like to draw your attention and invite you to look into it. It concerns the psychiatric drugging of our children.

Stephen Cook asks 'Are Psychotropic Drugs Killing our Kids?'

The Kids Mental-Health Crisis

With psychiatric and mood disorders in children a national concern, early detection and treatment can prevent deadly tragedies like the Arizona shooting, but there’s a startling lack of awareness, says Alizah Salario.

The Kids Mental-Health Crisis

Recent Trends in Stimulant Medication Use Among U.S. Children

A study, Recent Trends in Stimulant Medication Use Among US Children finds, surprisingly, that 3.5% of kids under 18 got stimulants, vs. 2.4% in 1996. Holy crap!! The reason this is surprising is that 3.5% is about 10x smaller than I thought it was. American Journal of Psychiatry? Did I move to Romania?

Recent Trends in Stimulant Medication Use Among U.S. Children

New ADHD guidelines: Kids as young as 4 can be diagnosed

Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) can now be diagnosed in children as young as 4 and as old as 18, according to the nation's largest organization of pediatricians.

New ADHD guidelines: Kids as young as 4 can be diagnosed

Brown signs bill letting CA minors get STD vaccine

Gov. Jerry Brown has waded into the national debate over child vaccinations for sexually transmitted diseases, signing into law a bill allowing children as young as 12 to get vaccinated without their parents' consent.

Brown signs bill letting CA minors get STD vaccine

Shy children now candidates for dangerous psychiatric drugs

New guidelines for mental illness turn shyness in children from a personality trait into a mental disorder that warrants drug treatment. Drug companies already target children, who fidget too much in class or have trouble concentrating on their homework, with stimulant drugs for treating attention deficit disorder. Now children who sit too quietly or are more withdrawn than their peers will also be targeted with medication for social anxiety disorder or depression.

Shy children now candidates for dangerous psychiatric drugs

Calming your child's ADHD symptoms

Five-year-old Max came to see me in my pediatrics practice because his kindergarten teachers were convinced that he had ADHD. They knew little about his life, yet they were pressuring his mother, Alice, to come to me in the hopes that I would prescribe medication, because his behavior in class was increasingly disruptive. Alice came to the first visit armed with the standard forms, indicating that he had scored in the high range for ADHD.

Calming your child's ADHD symptoms

Judge Agrees Prozac Could Have Made Teen a Killer

The headline from the Winnipeg Free Press in Canada tells the story: "Judge Says Prozac Factor in Teen Murder." Provincial court judge Robert Heinrich listened to my testimony as a psychiatric expert on behalf of the defense and weighed it against that of a Canadian psychiatrist brought in by the prosecution.

Judge Agrees Prozac Could Have Made Teen a Killer

ADHD: Are we over-drugging our kids?

From 1996 to 2008, the number of kids being prescribed anti-ADHD drugs such as Adderall rose by roughly 30 percent

ADHD: Are we over-drugging our kids?

Godboldo Wins Custody of Her Daughter

There was a legal victory Thursday for the Detroit woman once involved in a standoff with police over medical treatment for her sick child. A judge ruled that Maryanne Godboldo should be reunited with her 13-year-old daughter, Ariana.

CDC now calling U.S. households and demanding child immunization records as part of vaccine surveillance and tracking program

CDC now calling U.S. households and demanding child immunization records as part of vaccine surveillance and tracking program

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control, which has been comprehensively exposed as a vaccine propaganda organization promoting the interests of drug companies, is now engaged in a household surveillance program that involves calling U.S. households and intimidating parents into producing child immunization records. As part of what it deems a National Immunization Survey (NIS), the CDC is sending letters to U.S. households, alerting them that they will be called by "NORC at the University of Chicago" and that households should "have your child's immunization records handy when answering our questions." (See copies of the letter, below.)

Health Officials: Antipsychotic Drugs Given to Millions of Children are Very Dangerous

Millions of children have been put on antipsychotic drugs since 2009 alone. The number of children on these pharmaceuticals is becoming so astronomical that the U.S. pediatric health advisers are now speaking out against the known and unknown dangers of such widespread drugging of children nationwide. Doctors have become so eager to prescribe these drugs to patients that half of all citizens in the United States will be diagnosed with a mental illness within their lifetime. What is even more nonsensical about the explosion in prescription antipsychotics is that there is hardly any scientific data to show that the drugs are effective at treating what they claim to, while there is significant amounts of research linking antipsychotics to suicide, diabetes, weight gain, decreased life expectancy, and triggering an array of metabolic conditions.

Health Officials: Antipsychotic Drugs Given to Millions of Children are Very Dangerous

Number of U.S. Kids on ADHD Meds Keeps Rising

The use of stimulant medications such as Ritalin or Adderall in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is continuing to climb, although at a slower pace than in decades past, a new study finds.

Number of U.S. Kids on ADHD Meds Keeps Rising

Use of ADHD Medications Rises Among Kids, Especially Teens

The use of prescription stimulants to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in kids has increased steadily over the last decade, according to a new study.

Use of ADHD Medications Rises Among Kids, Especially Teens

Florida’s juvenile zombie prisons

The State of Florida has been ordering juvenile inmates within the states facilities to be drugged with adult doses of anti-psychotics, creating a tranquilizing affect. Some are guessing the pills are used to save on prison guards due to budget cuts.

Florida’s juvenile zombie prisons

If School Was Causing Your Child’s ADD / ADHD Would You Remove Him?

During a recent conversation with friends and family, the topic of ADHD / ADD came up and I shared my belief that this is not a disease that should result in people being drugged, but instead a personality type (like mine!) that should be honored. My friends and family looked at me stunned. They wondered how an educator like me didn’t know better as this new epidemic was clearly documented as a disease. I then found out that a few of those among us had been drugged or had been responsible for drugging their children. They were offended by my words! Fortunately, I'm used to this.

If School Was Causing Your Child’s ADD / ADHD Would You Remove Him?

U.S. advisers urge FDA to address antipsychotics in kids

U.S. pediatric health advisers on Thursday urged drug regulators to continue studying weight gain and other side-effects of antipsychotic drugs as they are increasingly taken by children.

U.S. advisers urge FDA to address antipsychotics in kids

U.S. advisers urge FDA to address antipsychotics in kids

U.S. pediatric health advisers on Thursday urged drug regulators to continue studying weight gain and other side-effects of antipsychotic drugs as they are increasingly taken by children.

U.S. advisers urge FDA to address antipsychotics in kids

Preschoolers on meds: Too much too soon?

Preschoolers on meds: Too much too soon?

As the sun rises over Phoenix, 4-year-old Shelby wakes. She sleepily uses the potty, dutifully washes her hands, and then accepts a white capsule from her mother, Victoria*. (*Last name has been withheld.)

Father of Injured Gardasil Girl Matches Caplan’s Bio-Unethical $10,000 Bet

In a striking move, Australian businessman and father of a Gardasil injured girl, Stephen Tunley matched University of Pennsylvania bioethicist, Dr. Art Caplan’s $10,000 reward for ‘proof of Bachmann vaccine claims.’

Father of Injured Gardasil Girl Matches Caplan’s Bio-Unethical $10,000 Bet

4 Your Child: Faux ADHD

Study: Millions of kids misdiagnosed with ADHD

According to the study, changes in a child's regular routine can help determine if they do really have the disorder.

Study: Millions of kids misdiagnosed with ADHD

California takes hard line with unvaccinated kids

No vaccination, no school. At least that's what several California students are being told. Middle and high school students, are being turned away from admission because they have not received a required whooping cough vaccination.

California takes hard line with unvaccinated kids

Bachmann’s Vaccine Mistake

I remember it clearly… I was sitting on the front row at Monday night’s CNN/Tea Party debate and got a great look at Michele Bachmann when she unleashed a line of attacks against Rick Perry. Bachmann had several big moments, but the most notable was her stance on Perry’s HPV Vaccination vote.

Bachmann’s Vaccine Mistake

Infant's death shines light on practice of medicating kids to sleep

The recent intoxication death of a 5-month-old boy from a common antihistamine has drawn attention to the common yet controversial practice of giving children medications to help them sleep.

Infant's death shines light on practice of medicating kids to sleep

Prescription drugs poisonings up in kids

More and more kids are showing up in the emergency room after accidental poisoning from prescription drugs, according to new research.

Prescription drugs poisonings up in kids

Drugmakers pay millions to Idaho physicians

They dine out courtesy of drug companies. A Boise psychiatrist ate $607 worth of meals paid for by Pfizer last year.

Drugmakers pay millions to Idaho physicians

'Shy' children at risk of being diagnosed with mental disorder

Children who are merely shy or sad are at risk of being diagnosed with mental disorders and given powerful drugs, experts warn.

'Shy' children at risk of being diagnosed with mental disorder

For kids with ADHD, regular 'green time' is linked to milder symptoms

A study of more than 400 children diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder has found a link between the children's routine play settings and the severity of their symptoms, researchers report. Those who regularly play in outdoor settings with lots of green (grass and trees, for example) have milder ADHD symptoms than those who play indoors or in built outdoor environments, the researchers found. The association holds even when the researchers controlled for income and other variables.

For kids with ADHD, regular 'green time' is linked to milder symptoms

Fast Paced Fantasy, May Impede Kids’ Cognitive Ability

A group of researchers from the University of Virginia discovered that watching fast paced fantasy programs like Spongebob Squarepants may negatively affect a child’s learning ability by impeding the “executive function” of the brain. The brain’s executive function affects the child’s ability to pay attention, control their behavior and solve problems. This research is planned to be published in the October issue of Pediatrics journal.

Fast Paced Fantasy, May Impede Kids’ Cognitive Ability

SpongeBob causes short-term attention problems in young kids: study

SpongeBob causes short-term attention problems in young kids: study

The cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants is in hot water from a study suggesting that watching just nine minutes of that program can cause short-term attention and learning problems in 4-year-olds.

Mom Treats Kid's ADHD With Coffee

Something people are buzzing about this week is a story about a Denver mom who has a child with ADHD, and instead of a prescription drug, this mom gives her child coffee -- to calm down.

Can a cup of coffee cure a kid's ADHD?

This morning a mommy blogger appeared on "ABC News" and shared that her 7-year-old son starts his day with a cup of coffee. Christie Haskell who writes for Cafe Mom's "The Stir" gives her son Rowan a second dose of caffeine later in the day.

Can a cup of coffee cure a kid's ADHD?

Treating ADHD children without medication

Treating ADHD children without medication

ADHD (Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) is a psychiatric disorder of childhood and teens marked at school, home and in social circumstances by deterioration unsuitable levels of inattentiveness, hyperactivity and recklessness. In this you will know the ways of treating ADHD children without medication.

Stop TeenScreen's Unscientific and Experimental "Mental Health Screening" of American School Children

Whereas children as young as 9, who previously had not thought of the concept of suicide, are being asked invasive and leading questions by TeenScreen such as: Have you tried to kill yourself in the last year? Are you still thinking of killing yourself? Have you thought seriously about killing yourself? Have you often thought about killing yourself? Have you ever tried to kill yourself?" and kids are being lured into doing the suicide survey by TeenScreen's offers of free movie passes, food coupons, pizza parties and $50 mall gift certificates;

Stop TeenScreen's Unscientific and Experimental "Mental Health Screening" of American School Children

Hospitalized Kids Overmedicated, Study Finds

Many children receive multiple medications while they are hospitalized even though there may be safety concerns about some of the drugs, according to a new study.

Hospitalized Kids Overmedicated, Study Finds

Antibiotic Prescriptions For Kids Drop 24% In 14 Years

Average annual antibiotic prescribing rates for children under 14 years of age dropped from 300 per 1,000 physician office visits to 229, a 24% fall, during the periods 1993-1994 to 2007-2008, a Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) revealed today. MMWRs are issued by the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention).

Antibiotic Prescriptions For Kids Drop 24% In 14 Years

Twisted web of lies in Godboldo Case: Big Pharma, multiple agencies, judge, DHS all profit from child abduction

Twisted web of lies in Godboldo Case: Big Pharma, multiple agencies, judge, DHS all profit from child abduction

(NaturalNews) There is a good chance you have heard the story of Maryanne Godboldo and how armed government agents broke down her door and attempted to kidnap her 13-year-old daughter Ariana to turn over to CPS because she refused to medicate her with a potentially dangerous and mind-altering anti-psychotic drug Risperdal. Maryanne had been using holistic remedies for her daughter instead, such as dance therapy.

Children Drugged To Death - Channel 4 News

Harry Hucknall was only 10yrs old when he took his own life after being prescribed powerful anti depressants and ADHD drugs. These powerful drugs are prescribed to children to "ease the symptoms" of a mental health diagnosis based solely on theory. Doctors have been accused of handing these drugs out like sweets. Hundreds of children between the ages of 4 and 6yrs old are being put straight onto these drugs without receiving any form of counselling or talking therapy.

Moms' smoking tied to psychiatric meds in kids: study

Moms' smoking tied to psychiatric meds in kids: study

New York: Children whose mothers smoked while pregnant were more likely to end up on medications such as antidepressants, stimulants and drugs for addiction, according to a study from Finland that hints at smoking's effect on a baby's developing brain.

Psychiatrists Label And Drug Children For Profit

There are no genetic tests, no brain scans, blood tests, chemical imbalance tests or X-rays that can scientifically/medically prove that any childhood psychiatric label is a real “disorder”.

Psychiatrists Label And Drug Children For Profit

U.S.-Mandated Report Finds Vaccines Safe for Kids

IOM panel pored over 1,000 studies and found little evidence for lasting harm

U.S.-Mandated Report Finds Vaccines Safe for Kids

Autistic Girl Stolen from Her Father and Forcibly Drugged by the Canadian Government: The Corrupt Business

Since being grabbed, Ayn has been placed on three different antipsychotics. She and her father are just one example of families devastated by this racket.

Autistic Girl Stolen from Her Father and Forcibly Drugged by the Canadian Government: The Corrupt Business

The ADHD Scam and the Mass Drugging of Schoolchildren

The ADHD Scam and the Mass Drugging of Schoolchildren

Today I am bringing you news from the world of ADHD, because scientists claim they have found a difference in the brains of children with ADHD versus “normal” children. The brains of these children who have been diagnosed with ADHD were scanned with an MRI machine. They compared 40,000 different points in their brains looking for signs of thickness in the brain tissue.

Writing problems common in kids with ADHD

Kids with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder are more likely to have writing problems such as poor spelling and grammar than their peers, suggests a new study. And the difference may be especially conspicuous in girls with ADHD.

Writing problems common in kids with ADHD

Ron Paul Reintroduces The Parental Consent Act 2011- Prohibits Federal Funding For Psychiatric ‘Screening’ of Kids

Congressman Ron Paul has re-introduced The Parental Consent Act , A bill which prohibits federal funds from being used to establish or implement any universal or mandatory mental health, psychiatric, or socioemotional screening program.

Ron Paul Reintroduces The Parental Consent Act 2011- Prohibits Federal Funding For Psychiatric ‘Screening’ of Kids

Drug trial scrapped amid outcry

FORMER Australian of the Year Patrick McGorry has aborted a controversial trial of antipsychotic drugs on children as young as 15 who are "at risk" of psychosis, amid complaints the study was unethical.

Drug trial scrapped amid outcry

Define Better - song and music video

This amazing song and music video features Chill EB, and was released by CCHR (www.CCHRint.org). It's an eye-opening song about the pharma drugging of our children with psychiatric medications.

Study: Nearly 1 in 10 U.S. kids diagnosed with ADHD

Over the last decade, an increasing number of American children have been diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), a new government survey reveals.

Study: Nearly 1 in 10 U.S. kids diagnosed with ADHD

ADHD—Labeling normal kids "mentally ill"

ADHD is a bogus mental "disorder" based only on a checklist of behaviors. There are no medical tests to prove any child has ADHD, yet more than 4.5 million kids have been diagnosed and put on drugs such as Ritalin, Adderall and Concerta, which the U.S. DEA places in the same highly addictive category of drugs as cocaine, morphine and opium. According to the Center for Disease Control, boys are much more likely to be diagnosed "ADHD" than girls. The "checklist" for ADHD could fit any normal child and literally includes such ridiculous criteria as " runs about or climbs excessively in situations when it is not appropriate" (we are talking about KIDS here... right?) " is often 'on the go "acts as if driven by a motor" "blurts out answers" "is easily distracted" " loses pencils or toys" "often doesn't seem to listen"

Risperdal drug maker faces $1B in lawsuits, yet mother charged for refusing use on child

What irony. Detroit mother, Maryanne Godboldo, was just charged with child neglect for refusing to obey a Child Protective Services order to give her daughter Risperdal, a powerful psychoactive drug. Meanwhile federal and multiple state prosecutors are suing Johnson & Johnson for deceptively marketing the drug – including mismarketing its use on children – and hiding dangerous adverse effects. J&J now faces a potential $1 billion in damages.

Risperdal drug maker faces $1B in lawsuits, yet mother charged for refusing use on child

Drugged kids aren’t all right

A most alarming of the recent stories in the media about the behavioral plight of America’s young children came in the form of a “Today Show” segment last week about the “No Kids Allowed Movement.” Many of us were unaware there’s a movement afoot by consumers fed up with misbehaving kids that has led some airlines, restaurants and theaters to ban children under age 6 from their establishments.

Drugged kids aren’t all right

Big Pharma’s Push to Drug Children: the Last Marketing Frontier

Big Pharma’s Push to Drug Children: the Last Marketing Frontier

It has long been evident that “Big Pharma’ has saturated their primary marketplace with their dangerous and toxic drugs. They have drugged adults, seniors, people with supposed psychological disorders–and now the only way to increase their sales share is to take business away from another drug company or to find a new disease not served by current medicines, not an easy task when all the other manufacturers are trying to do the same thing. Now, however, the marketing geniuses at the pharmaceutical companies have found a huge, lucrative new and relatively untapped market: children.

Detroit mother Maryanne Godboldo found in neglect for refusing to medicate daughter with psychiatric drugs

“The court system in Detroit appears to be trying to make an example out of Godboldo by sending a message: “Don’t resist tyranny.” When the state orders you to drug your children, don’t even think about saying no! If you do, armed SWAT teams will raid your house, CPS will kidnap your child, and you will be brought up on felony charges for resisting.”

Detroit mother Maryanne Godboldo found in neglect for refusing to medicate daughter with psychiatric drugs

Mom's questioning meds for treating ADHD

My oldest was recently diagnosed (in June) with ADHD(hyperactivity/impulsivity) and Oppositional Defiant Disorder. He was always a challenge for us to parent. My hope was that his behavior was just a phase and that he would gow out of it. But here I am years later, and his behavior is still a huge concern.

Mom's questioning meds for treating ADHD

Blaming the Parents

See, if you were the perfect parent, your kid would have no issues apparently.

How Empathic Parenting Is the Antithesis of Narcissism

If you had a narcissistic parent or if you just live in this narcissistic culture today, you may be wondering a lot about parenting and how to do things differently so you can raise a healthy, emotionally sound child. When raised in narcissistic families, children grow up with an "empty tank" because their emotional needs were not met. They may have had a roof over their heads, food to eat, and clothes to wear, but emotionally they feel orphaned and alone. Their most precious inner emotional life was not encouraged to grow and mature. Feelings were not validated or acknowledged and the result is growing up with nagging self-doubt and a fragile sense of self.

Gotta love the feminist psycho-babble, eh?

Facebook: Good and Bad for Kids?

Ever wonder how all that time spent on Facebook is affecting your child? A new study shows social media may offer risks and benefits for kids.

Facebook: Good and Bad for Kids?

Kids Who Use Facebook Do Worse in School

DELAWARE: Lack of psychiatrists takes toll on kids

DELAWARE: Lack of psychiatrists takes toll on kids

When 9-year-old Joshua gets angry, he squeezes his neck and punches his face so hard that he bruises himself.

U.S. children hospitalized for mental illness

U.S. children are increasingly likely to be admitted to the hospital for mental problems, although the rates of non-psychiatric hospitalizations have remained flat, according to a study.

U.S. children hospitalized for mental illness

Teen held in foster sister's shooting

Teen held in foster sister's shooting

A 14-year-old girl died shortly before midnight Wednesday after being shot in the neck by her 17-year-old foster sister in Ferry Pass.

Antidepressants Often Prescribed Without A Diagnosis

Antidepressants are the third most common type of medication prescribed in the U.S., with $10 billion a year in sales. Nearly three out of four of those prescriptions are written by non-psychiatric providers (many of them primary care physicians). A study in the journal Health Affairs reports that a growing number of patients receiving antidepressants from a doctor who isn’t a psychiatrist aren’t given an accompanying psychiatric diagnosis.

Antidepressants Often Prescribed Without A Diagnosis

They demand to Drug Your kids!

Anyone who’s an involvement in what’s going on in the planet of children’s wellbeing has discovered the explosion of medicinal drugs and a diagnosis of infants with PUT, ADHD, Asperger predicament or Autism. Does can be strike an individual as strange that suddenly a enormous percentage with otherwise normal and healthy and balanced children think you are diagnosed having these terrible diseases and schools and their linked medical counterparts tend to be prescribing all types of strange sound drugs to help “fix” these problems?

Whenever we were becoming an adult, just because a kid didn’t sit still with class, the coach didn’t scream that the child got some condition and need that your dog be drugged. But that’s exactly what the heck is happening to 1000s of children with public schools everywhere this land. And at some time, it’s as long as parents to perservere and state, “STOP. About to catch going to keep pumping medicines into some of our kids even though you can’t command your classrooms. “

They demand to Drug Your kids!

Trial begins over Detroit teenager's psychiatric care

Trial begins over Detroit teenager's psychiatric care

A jury will now decide whether a mother medically neglected her daughter when she refused to give her a psychotropic drug.

Insured Families No Longer Eligible For Free Vaccines

Marion County families who have insurance will no longer be eligible for free vaccines through the health department.

Insured Families No Longer Eligible For Free Vaccines

Many kids abuse controlled medications

Many kids abuse controlled medications

More than one in five teens who get strong painkillers, stimulants or other controlled medications from their doctor take too much of the substances, according to a new survey of Michigan students.

Mothers Little Helper

Kids’ Anxiety, Depression Halved When Parenting Styled to Personality

hen it comes to rearing children, just about any parent will say that what works with one kid might not work with another. Parents use all sorts of strategies to keep kids from being cranky, grumpy, fearful or moody, while encouraging them to be independent and well-adjusted.

Kids’ Anxiety, Depression Halved When Parenting Styled to Personality

Psychotropic Drugs: A Troubling Staple of Foster Care

After suffering abuse and neglect, plenty of America’s foster children need therapy and medical assistance, but across the nation it’s become too easy to throw mind-altering pills at their problems and hope they go away.

Psychotropic Drugs: A Troubling Staple of Foster Care