Congress Asks Why Foster Children Take More Mental Health Meds Than Other Kids

Foster children are medicated with psychotropic drugs at a rate much higher than are other kids, and lawmakers want to know what's to blame: more mental health needs or a problem of overmedication, as advocates and former foster kids have alleged.

Congress Asks Why Foster Children Take More Mental Health Meds Than Other Kids

Drug Firms Have Used Dangerous Tactics to Drive Sales to Treat Kids

There is big money to be made in prescribing medications to kids – especially when those medications are intended to be taken for life, as many psychotropic drugs are.

Drug Firms Have Used Dangerous Tactics to Drive Sales to Treat Kids

Psychiatric drugs can be reason of school attacks in US - expert

Alex Hribal, 16 year old suspect in Wednesday’s stabbing spree at a Pennsylvania high school, has been charged as an adult with four counts of attempted homicide and 21 counts of aggravated assault. Ten students injured in the rampage — including three in critical condition — remain hospitalized. "It is too early to judge what caused this particular school attack, but what we know is that there have been 31 school shootings or related acts of violence of which 6 of those were stabbings. And all 31 of those were either on psychiatric drugs or withdrawing from psychiatric drugs at the time of the incident," Kelly Patricia O’Meara from Citizens Commission on Human Rights, the mental health watchdog based in Los Angeles, told The Voice of Russia.

Read More >> Psychiatric drugs can be reason of school attacks in US - expert

Chinese secretly drug students to boost attendance for revenue: report

Kindergartens in three Chinese provinces have been accused of secretly administering antiviral drugs to children in order to boost attendance for revenue.

Chinese secretly drug students to boost attendance for revenue: report

Chinese media: Kindergartens suspected of drugging students to boost attendance

Are we overdosing our children with Ritalin, aka pediatric cocaine?

American kids are the most medicated in the world. The increase in use of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) drugs has been nothing short of staggering in its scope.

Are we overdosing our children with Ritalin, aka pediatric cocaine?

The Obama Administration has proposed a massive federal program aimed at curbing the use of psychotropic medications to treat foster youths, an issue that appeared on the federal radar in 2011.

Read More >> Obama Budget Calls for $750 Million to Fight Over-Drugging of Foster Youths

More reports filed against day care operator

An Indianapolis day care operator accused of drugging children made her first appearance in court on Monday.

• More reports filed against day care operator

Maryanne Godboldo, recognized world-wide as a hero for standing off a Detroit police SWAT team trying to seize her young daughter to administer the dangerous drug Risperdal in 2011, was in court once again Feb. 14. In a never-ending continuation of the original assault, she is to face criminal charges re-instated by an appeals court after 36th District Court Judge Ronald Giles and Third Judicial Circuit Court Judge Gregory Bill adamantly dismissed them.

Read More >> GLOBAL HERO MARYANNE GODBOLDO BACK IN COURT; NEW CRIMINAL HEARING SET FOR MARCH 14

BAYER CEO: ‘WE DON’T MAKE MEDICINE FOR POOR INDIANS’

In a crass yet frank admission, Bayer CEO Marijn Dekkers said the company’s new cancer drug, Nexavar, is not “for Indians,” but “for western patients who can afford it.” The statement came in the wake in a recent ruling by an Indian court that certain life-saving drugs could be produced and distributed at 97% of the brand-name price.

Read More >> BAYER CEO: ‘WE DON’T MAKE MEDICINE FOR POOR INDIANS’

Parents protest psychiatric meds for children

When Debbie Visicaro saw the protest signs outside the West Pasco Judicial Center on Thursday, she knew she wanted to become involved.

Read More >> Parents protest psychiatric meds for children

Mother Says Her Six-Year-Old Was Given Wrong Medication

A six-year-old ends up in the emergency room after his mother says he was given the wrong dose of medication at a North Little Rock school.

Worcester psychologist advocates drug-free approach for ADHD

Like any psychologist, Dr. Craig Wiener of Worcester was trained to observe. But what he observed 35 years ago while doing postdoctoral work at the Worcester Youth Guidance Center was a little different from what his peers were noticing.

Read more >> Worcester psychologist advocates drug-free approach for ADHD

Anti-vaccination mother tells Family Court immunisation akin to sterilising, changing gender of children

A MUM who has gone to court to fight her ex-husband's bid to have their children vaccinated says the procedure is akin to sterilisation or gender reassignment.


Anti-vaccination mother tells Family Court immunisation akin to sterilising, changing gender of children

Ohio Medicaid data document rising polypharmacy in foster children

Prescribing of three or more psychotropic medications has increased among foster children enrolled in Medicaid, based on an analysis of claims data in Ohio. The findings of polypharmacy are raising red flags about oversight and monitoring of psychotropic medication use among high-risk youth.

Ohio Medicaid data document rising polypharmacy in foster children

ADHD diagnoses soared amid 20-year drug marketing campaign

After more than 50 years leading the fight to legitimize attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, Keith Conners could be celebrating.

Read More: ADHD diagnoses soared amid 20-year drug marketing campaign

Rep. Tim Murphy Introduces Mental-Health Legislation

Rep. Tim Murphy (R., Pa.), the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on Oversight and Investigation, introduced a wide-ranging mental health care bill that would change the way mental illness is treated.

Rep. Tim Murphy Introduces Mental-Health Legislation

‘Daily Show’ Takes on Johnson & Johnson’s Criminal Allegations

Jon Stewart takes on pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson, saying the criminal allegations against the company are far worse than the shootings, decapitations and massacres encountered in the popular video game Grand Theft Auto.

‘Daily Show’ Takes on Johnson & Johnson’s Criminal Allegations

Drug Firm Pays Billions for Misbranding Antipsychotics

Johnson & Johnson was sued for failing to report data suggesting increased risks for stroke and diabetes associated with the antipsychotic Risperdal.

Read More >> Drug Firm Pays Billions for Misbranding Antipsychotics

CCHR hits psychiatrists for turning classrooms into ADHD labs

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) is working diligently to eradicate mental health abuses
while enacting patient and consumer protections from what psychiatrists push on people. Mental health abuses are an international problem. Brian Daniels, who is the National Spokesperson for the CCHR in the United Kingdom, has written for CCHR International on Dec. 2, 2013, that school classrooms are being turned into labs for ADHD diagnoses and the drugging of kids.

Read More >> CCHR hits psychiatrists for turning classrooms into ADHD labs

Psychiatric Drug Therapy Among U.S. Teenagers Levels Off at 6%

About 6 percent of U.S. teenagers report using a psychiatric medicine, such as an antidepressant or attention-deficit treatment, as drug therapy for the conditions remains steady, a government survey found.


Read more >> Psychiatric Drug Therapy Among U.S. Teenagers Levels Off at 6%

Psychostimulant and non-stimulant agents address the symptoms of ADHD, substantial evidence shows.

ADHD, the most common childhood neurobehavioral disorder, is characterized by difficulties with attention, impulse control, and modulating activity level. The pathophysiology of ADHD is thought to involve dysregulation of brain dopamine and norepinephrine systems.1 Managing ADHD includes pharmacotherapeutic and nonpharmacotherapeutic—ie, behavioral and psychoeducational—interventions.2,3

Psychostimulant and non-stimulant agents address the symptoms of ADHD, substantial evidence shows.

They act as if that is a good thing.

Unscientific ADHD Diagnosis, Drugging Causing Severe Harm to Children

The diagnosis of ADHD may have become too broad, leading to needless and potentially harmful treatment for some children, researchers warn.

Unscientific ADHD Diagnosis, Drugging Causing Severe Harm to Children

Report says foster children receive too many medications

One kid called it "the brainwash pill." Some said it made them put on weight or provoked teasing from schoolmates when they were called to the nurse's office.

Report says foster children receive too many medications

Should children be on Ritalin?

How bad can our children be that we have to drug them to send them to school? This letter has been waiting to be written since 1985. That was the first year I entered a state school classroom and found that a couple of kids in my class were taking a drug called Ritalin. I knew absolutely nothing about Ritalin at that time. I did get an uneasy feeling in my gut and asked the parents to take their children off the drug, if, the only reason they were on it was for my benefit. The two children that were taking Ritalin were taken off immediately and I had no problem with the boys academically or behaviorally.

Read more >> Should children be on Ritalin?

Are We Overmedicating Foster Care Children?

Mental health issues are front and center in human services. Every day, caseworkers work in an environment where mental health services aren't as robust as they should be and where medication for kids in custody sometimes serves as a substitute for more appropriate care.

Are We Overmedicating Foster Care Children?

Psychiatric Drug Use Among Preschoolers Leveling Off, Study Shows

Doctors are slower to prescribe medication for children when it comes to treating mental health disorders, a new study shows.

More >> Psychiatric Drug Use Among Preschoolers Leveling Off, Study Shows

Parents Not Vaccinating Kids Contributed to Whooping Cough Outbreaks

California’s worst episode of whooping cough, or pertussis, in 2010, likely spread among unvaccinated children to infect 9,210 youngsters.

Read more >> Parents Not Vaccinating Kids Contributed to Whooping Cough Outbreaks

More women prescribed psychiatric drugs and left at risk of birth defects

Women of child-bearing age are increasingly being prescribed psychiatric medications that can cause pregnancy complications and birth defects, doctors fear.

Read More >> More women prescribed psychiatric drugs and left at risk of birth defects

New Warning Against Anti-Psychotic Medication Use Among Children

The American Psychiatric Association's (APA) new warning of the disputed uses of anti-psychotic medications is part of a broader campaign to educate patients and doctors about unneeded and possibly harmful medical treatments and tests.

New Warning Against Anti-Psychotic Medication Use Among Children

A Toddler on 3 Different Psychiatric Meds? How Drugging Kids Became Big Business

On December 13, 2006, paramedics arrived at the Plymouth County, Massachusetts, home of four-year-old Rebecca Riley only to find her slumped over on her parents' bed, dead. The medical examiner on hand identified the cause of death as heart and lung failure brought about by the medications she was on. Rebecca was being prescribed Depakote, Seroquel, and Clonidine by Dr. Kayoko Kifuji, a Tufts-New England Medical Center child psychiatrist. She had diagnosed Rebecca with ADHD and bipolar disorder when she was two years old. Rebecca's death provoked a national debate on how a child as young as two could ever be diagnosed with major mental illnesses and be put on powerful tranquilizers. Katie Couric eventually covered the story in a CBS 60 Minutes segment.

Read more >> A Toddler on 3 Different Psychiatric Meds? How Drugging Kids Became Big Business

New Study Links Antipsychotic Risperdal to Increased Diabetes Risk

A new study reveals that antipsychotic medications, such as Risperdal (risperidone), which are being prescribed to a growing number of children, have been tied to serious side effects including increased risks for diabetes. This is not the first time that Risperdal side effects have been the focus of medical research, including ties between Risperdal and diabetes.

New Study Links Antipsychotic Risperdal to Increased Diabetes Risk

Over-Medicating Our Children…Abuse By the Pharmaceutical Industry?

This school year, beware of those who try to influence you to put your children on drugs.

Over-Medicating Our Children…Abuse By the Pharmaceutical Industry?

American Schools Are Failing Nonconformist Kids. Here’s How

Of the possible child heroes for our times, young people with epic levels of the traits we valorize, the strongest contender has got to be the kid in the marshmallow study. Social scientists are so sick of the story that some threaten suicide if forced to read about him one more time. But to review: The child—or really, nearly one-third of the more than 600 children tested in the late ’60s at Bing Nursery School on the Stanford University campus—sits in a room with a marshmallow. Having been told that if he abstains for 15 minutes he’ll get two marshmallows later, he doesn’t eat it. This kid is a paragon of self-restraint, a savant of delayed gratification. He’ll go on, or so the psychologists say, to show the straight-and-narrow qualities required to secure life’s sweeter and more elusive prizes: high SAT scores, money, health.

American Schools Are Failing Nonconformist Kids. Here’s How

Forced chemo: Should court overrule Amish parents?

A legal fight between a hospital and an Amish family in Ohio over whether doctors can force their 10-year-old daughter to resume chemotherapy after her parents stopped treatment is again raising questions about what rights parents have in making medical decisions for their children.

Forced chemo: Should court overrule Amish parents?

Parents' Belief In Conspiracy Theories May Affect Children's Healthcare

A new study presented August 28, 2013 at the Annual Conference of the British Psychological Society's Social Psychology Section in Exeter stated that parent's belief in conspiracy theories may influence their decision to get their children vaccinated against diseases like measles.

Parents' Belief In Conspiracy Theories May Affect Children's Healthcare

Shaken Baby Syndrome often caused by vaccines, not parents

It is increasingly common for parents of children with one or more of the triad of symptoms associated with so-called "Shaken Baby Syndrome" (SBS) to be automatically accused of committing child abuse. But often missing from this causal equation is any investigation into the vaccinations that children diagnosed with SBS received prior to developing this very serious condition, a condition that copious scientific research has shown can, indeed, be caused by vaccines.

Shaken Baby Syndrome often caused by vaccines, not parents

Family: Teen who shot foster parent was not on medication

A Mid-South teen will be charged as an adult for shooting his foster father in Earle, Arkansas.

Family: Teen who shot foster parent was not on medication

ER Visits and ADHD Meds: Teaching Our Kids Not to Share

The number of emergency room visits related to stimulant medications like Adderall and Ritalin quadrupled among young adults from 2005 to 2011, says a new report from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, which is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The data looked at ER visits that resulted from abuse or misuse of the medications, such as taking medication that wasn’t prescribed for the patient, taking larger-than-prescribed doses, and taking stimulants in combination with alcohol.

ER Visits and ADHD Meds: Teaching Our Kids Not to Share

Foster Children Put on Psychotropic Medication, Big Money for Foster Parents

Mint Press News explores the use of psychotropic medication in the foster care system, and specifically in Texas, starting with an example:

Foster Children Put on Psychotropic Medication, Big Money for Foster Parents

Chill E.B. - Prove It (official video)

ADHD Symptoms, Test: 'Cap' Accurately Diagnoses Children By Brainwave Evaluation

The FDA approved a brainwave-measuring cap that helps accurately diagnose children with ADHD.

ADHD Symptoms, Test: 'Cap' Accurately Diagnoses Children By Brainwave Evaluation

Children who are wrongly labelled mentally ill are making billions for drug firms

For any parent, having to accept your child needs psychiatric drugs must be agonising. But when Susan Bevis's 13-year-old daughter Amy suffered a breakdown after a vicious campaign of school bullying, it seemed the only option - as instructed by NHS psychiatrists.

Children who are wrongly labelled mentally ill are making billions for drug firms

A Nation of Kids on Speed

Walk into any American high school and nearly one in five boys in the hallways will have a diagnosis of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. According to the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, 11% of all American children ages 4 to 17—over six million—have ADHD, a 16% increase since 2007. When you consider that in Britain roughly 3% of children have been similarly diagnosed, the figure is even more startling. Now comes worse news: In the U.S., being told that you have ADHD—and thus receiving some variety of amphetamine to treat it—has become more likely.

A Nation of Kids on Speed

ADHD Drugs Don't Boost Kids' Grades

It's no longer shocking to hear of children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder—and others simply facing a big test—taking ADHD medicine to boost their performance in school. But new studies point to a problem: There's little evidence that the drugs actually improve academic outcomes.


ADHD Drugs Don't Boost Kids' Grades

Autistic Boy With Higher IQ Than Einstein Discovers His Gift After Removal From State-Run Therapy

In yet another example of how an out-of-control Goliath state system can cause more harm than good, a teenage boy who was diagnosed with autism at a young age has risen to stellar heights after quitting the special ed system with the help of his concerned mother.

Autistic Boy With Higher IQ Than Einstein Discovers His Gift After Removal From State-Run Therapy

Did Ritalin Make Kids in Quebec Dumber?

Did Ritalin Make Kids in Quebec Dumber?

Yeah...

Number of children given drugs for ADHD up ninefold with patients as young as THREE being prescribed Ritalin

Prescriptions for ‘chemical cosh’ drugs to treat hyperactivity have risen almost nine-fold, with claims that children as young as three are taking them.

Number of children given drugs for ADHD up ninefold with patients as young as THREE being prescribed Ritalin

Study: One in five U.S. children have mental disorder

As many as one in five children in the United States suffer from a mental disorder in a given year, according to national data recently compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Study: One in five U.S. children have mental disorder

As a child in orthopedic schools in the 1950s, I clearly remember other disabled children being tackled or held down by teachers.

Voices of disability: Ignorance not an excuse for physically restraining disabled students

America’s Epidemic of Psychiatric Over-Diagnosis

More and more people around you are being diagnosed with depression or ADHD, but is that an illusion? There is an epidemic in America, but it’s not an epidemic of psychiatric disorders—it’s an epidemic of over-diagnosis that’s making billions for pharmaceutical companies and the doctors prescribing these drugs.

America’s Epidemic of Psychiatric Over-Diagnosis

Euthanasia for children nears approval by Belgian Parliament; doctors to mass-euthanize children and Alzheimer's patients

A proposed law on the verge of approval by the Belgium parliament would allow children to decide for themselves whether they should be euthanized ("killed") by medical personnel. Currently, Belgian law limits euthanasia to persons 18 and older, but with the rise of autistic children thanks to biopesticides, GMOs and vaccines, nations are increasingly trying to figure out what to do with all these children who have been permanently damaged by the medical and biotech industries.

Euthanasia for children nears approval by Belgian Parliament; doctors to mass-euthanize children and Alzheimer's patients

Dan Olmsted: The Amish All Over Again

I’m about at that point when it comes to the Amish and their amazingly good health. There’s been story after story reporting the relative absence of Alzheimer’s, allergies, asthma – you know, the big chronic disorders that plague the people who live around them, namely the rest of us. Not to mention -- not ever -- the lack of autism.
Dan Olmsted: The Amish All Over Again

Too many psychiatric diagnoses for children: an epidemic of labels

Allen Frances, professor of child psychiatry at Duke University and chair of the DSM IV(Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) task force hit the nail on the head in a recent commentary "Why So Many Epidemics of Childhood Mental Disorders?" in the Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. Because he makes his argument so clearly and persuasively (and the full article is only available to those who subscribe to the journal) I will quote it at length.

Too many psychiatric diagnoses for children: an epidemic of labels

Leading Experts to Speak at Vatican about the Controversy of Children and Psychotropics

Psychiatric medications have emerged as a first line of treatment for youth emotional and behavioral problems. Concurrently, the use of psychosocial intervention has fallen. An upcoming June 14-15 conference at the Vatican examines this trend—making accurate information available in an area typically shrouded in industry marketing—and asks, “Are the rising global prescription rates justified by the clinical trial evidence?” An interdisciplinary team of the world’s leading authorities, including award winning journalist Robert Whitaker (Anatomy of an Epidemic), acclaimed Harvard psychologist Irving Kirsch (The Emperor’s New Drugs), and renowned psychiatrists Sami Timimi, Giovanni Fava, Joanna Moncrieff, and Pat Bracken will examine and debate the controversy about the safety and effectiveness of psychotropics and other treatments, and conclude that based on the evidence, psychosocial options should be the first choice.

Leading Experts to Speak at Vatican about the Controversy of Children and Psychotropics

Psychiatric drugging of kids investigation opened up by the Vatican

There has been a growing awareness of the completely fraudulent and dangerous nature of psychiatry. There are no biological markers for the myriad of what are actually mythical diagnoses of the psychiatrists. And the psychiatric drugs are all highly toxic poisons which consistently cause far more harm than good with the mental hospitals serving as no more than concentration camps where people are drugged, beaten, shocked, isolated, raped and left to die. To makes matters worse in the United States this tyranny is often legalized by the psychiatrists, in their own hidden court rooms with their own personal judges, against perfectly sane and law abiding activists in swift, fixed kangaroo civil court proceedings with no juries and no sworn in testimony. The targets of this tyranny are generally, but not always, poor.

Psychiatric drugging of kids investigation opened up by the Vatican

Study finds high rates of attention deficit disorder in Maine

Children and adults in Maine are being diagnosed with attention deficit disorder at rates far exceeding the national average, fueling higher spending on treatment and medication, according to a national study by Express Scripts, one of the country’s largest pharmacy benefit management companies.

Study finds high rates of attention deficit disorder in Maine

Drugging the kids

People have strong opinions about medicating children.

In my experience, those with the loudest complaints haven’t themselves been in a position to need to medicate their child. It is easy to judge when you haven’t walked the road yourself.

Drugging the kids

Guidelines target kids' psychotropic drug usage

New best-practice guidelines should help reduce the prescription of psychotropic medications to children, especially those in foster care who receive anti-psychotic medications at nearly nine times the rate of other children receiving Medicaid.

Guidelines target kids' psychotropic drug usage

Channing Tatum talks parenting, fame, and Justin Bieber in the cover story for July’s Vanity Fair.

Channing Tatum: I Won’t Medicate Kid For Learning Disabilities, “Worry” About Justin Bieber

Prescription Drugs Now Kill More People In The US Than Heroin And Cocaine Combined

Prescription opioid painkillers are responsible for more fatal overdoses in the U.S. than heroin and cocaine combined, according to a new study out of Brandeis University.

Prescription Drugs Now Kill More People In The US Than Heroin And Cocaine Combined

An Appeal to the Nation’s Educators: Stop Traumatizing Our Children

An Appeal to the Nation’s Educators: Stop Traumatizing Our Children

Tim Robbins speaks about drugging children

Soaring Numbers of Children on Powerful Adult Psychiatric Drugs

A recent blog of mine described how unethical and illegal drug company activities have driven the prescription of toxic antipsychotic drugs to children. Now the "success" of this campaign has been documented in the Archives of General Psychiatry. In a comparison between the years 1993-1998 and 2005-2009, prescriptions of antipsychotic drugs for per 100 children (0-13 years old) rose from 0.24 to 1.83. That's more than a sevenfold increase. Given that most of prescriptions are for the older children in this age range, the rate would be substantially higher among preteens and 13-year-olds. For adolescents (14-20 years old) the increase was nearly fivefold.

Soaring Numbers of Children on Powerful Adult Psychiatric Drugs

Antipsychotic Prescriptions in Children Have Skyrocketed: Study

The dramatic rise of antipsychotic prescribing in youth occurred in conjunction with the illegal marketing of the drugs by their makers, resulting in multibillion-dollar settlements with the government


Antipsychotic Prescriptions in Children Have Skyrocketed: Study

5 YEAR OLD KIDS GIVEN ANTI PSYCHOTIC DRUGS IN UK

Washington in Turmoil after Psychiatry Group Discloses 300 Million Americans Are Mentally Ill

The American Psychiatric Association announced yesterday that rigorous scientific analysis of the newly adopted fifth edition of its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, often called its “diagnostic bible” and itself promulgated after rigorous scientific analysis, revealed that over 300 million Americans, or 95 per cent of the U.S. population, suffer from mental illness. The organization’s newly elected president, noted Harvard child psychiatrist Dr. Joeph Biederman, urged the country to “set other, petty concerns aside, and rally to ensure that these poor sick people get the help they so desperately need. Our rigorous scientific analysis tells us this is a problem that must not be ignored.”

Washington in Turmoil after Psychiatry Group Discloses 300 Million Americans Are Mentally Ill

Drug Companies Drive the Psychiatric Drugging of Children

Johnson & Johnson, the company that makes the antipsychotic drug Risperdal, has tentatively agreed to a settlement of $2.2 billion to resolve a federal investigation into the company's marketing practices. Although details are not fully finalized, this includes "a roughly $400 million criminal fine for the illegal promotion of the antipsychotic Risperdal," according to the Wall Street Journal. It's been well documented that Johnson & Johnson confidentially paid psychiatrists such as Harvard's Joseph Biederman to promote adult drugs such as the powerful antipsychotic drug Risperdal for children. The company has even ghost-written at least one of the Harvard professor's "scientific" articles.


Drug Companies Drive the Psychiatric Drugging of Children

Pharma Company Studying Oxycontin's Effect On Children

Pharma Company Studying Oxycontin's Effect On Children

The maker of the prescription painkiller OxyContin confirms that a clinical trial is currently under way to measure the opioid's effects on children.

TEENSCREEN DIRECTORS RESIGN

PsychSearch.net has just learned from an unnamed source that TeenScreen’s Director Laurie Flynn and Co-Director Leslie McGuire have parted ways with TeenScreen. The resignations have now been confirmed with a TeenScreen administrator but calls for an explanation to TeenScreen’s PR office have not been immediately returned.

TEENSCREEN DIRECTORS RESIGN

Stop Drugging Children into Obedience

I  am the mother of 4 daughters; the grandma of five grandkids, 5 and under; the big sister of 5 younger brothers; the aunt of 11; the great aunt of 8; the oldest of 45 first cousins. I am a psychiatric social worker and children's and young adult librarian. As a therapist I have worked with clients with serious mental illness.  I have been involved with many  hundreds of kids  for all my 66 years.

Stop Drugging Children into Obedience

GlaxoSmithKline to pay $3B for health fraud

GlaxoSmithKline to pay $3B for health fraud

British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline will pay $3 billion in fines—the largest health care fraud settlement in U.S. history—for criminal and civil violations involving 10 drugs that are taken by millions of people.

Babies born in withdrawal from prescription drugs

Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome: Newborns Addicted To Prescription Drugs

There is a new group of addicts and this group will tear your heart out because they are helpless and innocent. They had no choice and they have no say in their final destiny. This group is newborn babies.

Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome: Newborns Addicted To Prescription Drugs

MICHIGAN’S PRESCRIPTION FOR FOSTER KIDS: DRUGS

Taxpayers have spent more than $70 million in a single year in Michigan on psychotropic drugs for foster kids and other children on Medicaid. And, nearly a quarter of Michigan foster kids were on psychotropic drugs to counteract behavioral problems and diagnosed mental illness in 2008, according to a recent government report.


MICHIGAN’S PRESCRIPTION FOR FOSTER KIDS: DRUGS

U.S. kids getting more ADHD drugs, fewer antibiotics

The number of drugs dispensed to U.S. minors has dropped slightly over the past decade, bucking the rise in prescriptions to adults, according to a government report out Monday.

U.S. kids getting more ADHD drugs, fewer antibiotics

'GENERATION RX' Extended Trailer

http://GenerationRXFilm.com DVD FOR SALE NOW AT WEBSITE Common Radius Films is a private documentary and media development company based in Vancouver, British Columbia. GENERATION RX marks the first film partnership between the company and international award-winning writer/producer/director Kevin P. Miller. This film explores how children have been caught in the middle of an unprecedented change in Western culture: that of drugging children with psychiatric medications earlier — and more often than ever before. 

Turning healthy people into psychiatric patients

Diagnoses of psychiatric conditions like ADHD have increased explosively in recent years. Dutch experts say boisterous or easily-distracted children are being wrongly labelled as patients, largely to make money for pharmaceutical companies. They are afraid the new internationally-used manual for psychiatry unnecessarily brands even more healthy people as sick.


Turning healthy people into psychiatric patients

Psychiatrist: More pushback needed on medicating kids with behavioral problems

A Boys Town child psychiatrist told attorneys and child advocates Thursday they should challenge the use of psychotropic medications for children -- especially powerful antipsychotic drugs -- and look more often to behavioral and other therapies to treat mental health problems in children.


Psychiatrist: More pushback needed on medicating kids with behavioral problems

More than half of autistic children on psychiatric medications

More than half of school-age autistic children in the United States take mood-altering drugs, according to a report, as doctors increasingly target the broad range of psychiatric symptoms associated with the ailment.

More than half of autistic children on psychiatric medications

Foster children medicated at high rates

Oklahoma medicates its foster children at higher rates than national averages when it comes to antipsychotic drug prescriptions, according to a study released by PolicyLab at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Foster children medicated at high rates

‘Study Drugs’ Popular Among High School Students

Stimulant medications prescribed for children with A.D.H.D. are being abused by high school students wanting to study late into the night and stay focused during exams. Below are characteristics of the drugs’ five most popular brands, which (along with their generic equivalents) make up the vast majority of the 21 million stimulant prescriptions dispensed in 2011 for patients aged 10 through 19.

‘Study Drugs’ Popular Among High School Students

More children are being diagnosed with ADHD

The number of prescriptions given to hyperactive young teenagers in the Bay of Plenty is on the rise, and a family advocate says doctors under pressure for a quick fix are to blame.


More children are being diagnosed with ADHD

Growing Up With ADHD Meds – And Deciding to Quit Them

I’m always thrilled when readers write in wanting to share their experiences or their children’s experiences with medication.

Growing Up With ADHD Meds – And Deciding to Quit Them

Minn. moves to limit psychotropic drugs for poor, foster children

Concerned by a sharp rise in the use of powerful psychiatric drugs for adolescents, Minnesota will start requiring doctors in many cases to begin using a state-funded consulting service before prescribing such medications for children.

Minn. moves to limit psychotropic drugs for poor, foster children

Are Doctors Improperly Storing Vaccines?

As many moms do, Julie Dilensky of Washington, D.C., takes her one-year-old daughter to the doctor for her recommended vaccinations.


Are Doctors Improperly Storing Vaccines?

Mayo consult service to cut harmful psychotropic RX to kids ...

Primary care doctors will need to check in before prescribing antipsychotics and other dicey psychiatric medications to many children in Minnesota. The state Department of Human Services has hired the Mayo Clinic to provide a new consult service to cut down on doctors who make questionable prescriptions of psychiatric drugs and to improve the quality of child mental health care in the state.

Mayo consult service to cut harmful psychotropic RX to kids ...

What Happens When Toddlers Zone Out With an iPad

More than half of the young children in the U.S. now have access to an iPad, iPhone or similar touch-screen device. For parents, their children's love of these devices raises a lot of questions.


What Happens When Toddlers Zone Out With an iPad

Overdosed: Over 25% of Kids on Prescription Drugs

A report released by Medco Health Solutions Inc., the biggest U.S. pharmacy-benefit manager, shows that over 25% of children and teens are involved with taking prescription medications – although that number may have risen over the past couple years. Based on the company’s data from 2009, 7% of U.S. children are on a shocking two or more drugs.


Overdosed: Over 25% of Kids on Prescription Drugs

Stop labeling, drugging kids

This is a dangerous viewpoint. How sad that Drs. Mehmet Oz and Mike Roizen would put children as young as four on to the medical/psychiatric mental health bandwagon.

Stop labeling, drugging kids

10 year old's school calling child protective services if I don't drug her

I had an argument with my 10 year old's teacher. My child is in the 5th grade. Her teacher says she can't focus and I need to put her on drugs (i.e. ritalin, adderall) and I said she won't take them and the teacher said to put the drugs in her soup but she is a picky eater and won't eat most foods.

10 year old's school calling child protective services if I don't drug her

Rise in hyperactive diagnosis concerning - Family First

A report showing more than 100,000 children are on prescriptions for drugs to treat hyperactivity is a cause for concern, Family First NZ says.

Rise in hyperactive diagnosis concerning - Family First

ADHD drug use in kids cause for concern

ADHD drug use in kids cause for concern

Family First NZ is alarmed at the number of children being prescribed drugs for hyperactivity and says that better diagnosis with second opinions and treatment of underlying problems should be the highest priority.

CHILD DRUGGING: PSYCHIATRY DESTROYING LIVES

They sound reasonable. They sound convincing—science again conquers our material universe for the benefit of Mankind. Who could possibly argue with making a normal life possible for those in trouble?

CHILD DRUGGING: PSYCHIATRY DESTROYING LIVES

Unvaccinated kids booted from Pa. classrooms

Unvaccinated kids booted from Pa. classrooms


Get stuck or get out.

That's the message Pennsylvania school districts gave to students and their parents this year as they approached a deadline to comply with new state vaccination rules.

Moms Talk: Do Children Need Antidepressants?

In this week’s Moms Talk, we cover kids on depression and anxiety medications, and the difficult choices for parents.

Moms Talk: Do Children Need Antidepressants?

How Big Pharma and the Psychiatric Establishment Drugged Up Our Kids

Pediatric psychopharmacology is a billion-dollar business that sustains Pharma and Pharma investors on Wall Street.

How Big Pharma and the Psychiatric Establishment Drugged Up Our Kids

Concern at psychiatric drugs used on children

PRESCRIPTIONS of antipsychotic drugs given to children have doubled in only five years, data obtained under freedom of information laws shows.

Concern at psychiatric drugs used on children

Report: Foster System Should Offer More Therapy, Less Medication

Report: Foster System Should Offer More Therapy, Less Medication

Children in state custody use psychotropic medications at 2-3 times the rate of other children, according to a new study. States could help foster children more effectively by diverting some of their medication money into trauma-based therapy, says lead author David Rubin, MD.

Ritalin use for ADHD soars fourfold as child psychologists warn of untested drug cocktails

Prescriptions of Ritalin for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder have quadrupled in a decade, prompting fears it is being pushed on children at the expense of alternative treatments and without appreciation of long-term effects.

Ritalin use for ADHD soars fourfold as child psychologists warn of untested drug cocktails

New research expands understanding of psychoactive medication use among children in foster care

A few months after the federal Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a report on the use of psychoactive drugs by children in foster care in five states, a national study from PolicyLab at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia describes prescription patterns over time in 48 states. The updated findings show the percentage of children in foster care taking antipsychotics--a class of psychoactive drugs associated with serious side effects for children-- continued to climb in the last decade. At the same time, a slight decline was seen in the use of other psychoactive medications, including the percentage of children receiving 3 or more classes of these medications at once (polypharmacy).

New research expands understanding of psychoactive medication use among children in foster care