Obamacare Shreds Mental Health Care

As the House of Representatives debates a bill to repeal Obamacare and start over, the Left will invoke the tragedy in Tucson as a reason to keep the law in place. Liberal bloggers and some patient groups are claiming that states are already cutting mental health budgets to balance budgets, Arizona among them. They will claim that overturning Obamacare, which offers mental health benefits through an expansion of Medicaid, would only deepen the danger. The New Republic's Jonathan Cohn provides the familiar liberal narrative: "We may never know whether a better mental health care system would have averted this massacre. But we can be sure that it would avert some future ones."

Obamacare Shreds Mental Health Care

UK Finally Makes Smart Decision to Protect Children… Why Doesn’t the US?

Ministers of parliament and senior advisers in the UK government ruled against the flu vaccine for children under 5. This decision comes even though a flu epidemic is currently striking the UK.

UK Finally Makes Smart Decision to Protect Children… Why Doesn’t the US?

Side Effects of Adderall

If your child has ADHD, they may have been prescribed Adderall for treatment. Before you fill this prescription, you should know the side effects of Adderall. While you may still decide to take it, it's best to go into it with open eyes so that you will know what to expect.

Side Effects of Adderall

Oregon Sues Johnson & Johnson Over Alleged Secret Motrin Recall

The state of Oregon has filed a lawsuit against drug maker Johnson & Johnson, claiming the company secretly removed defective Motrin from store shelves, which authorities say may have put the public at risk.

Oregon Sues Johnson & Johnson Over Alleged Secret Motrin Recall

The Amoral, Psychiatric--Pharmaceutical Victimization of Foster Children in the United States of America

Foster children are unfortunates without parents and families, not a medical population—not victims of a disease or epidemic. I would add here that increasingly, foster children are children “kidnapped” by government—by child protective services and family courts, their parents having had the audacity to resist the psychiatric labeling and drugging and having been charged with “medical neglect” for their audacity.

The Amoral, Psychiatric--Pharmaceutical Victimization of Foster Children in the United States of America

PBS Reports Drugging of Foster Care Kids

Antipsychotics are the top-selling class of drugs in the United States, with sales of $14.6 billion in 2009 alone. Their use in children and adolescents in the United States is increasingly prevalent — and children in foster care are among the most likely to be medicated.



PBS Reports Drugging of Foster Care Kids

FYI: PBS tonight – The Watch List: The medication of foster children

On this week’s episode of Need to Know, we go inside the foster care system for an installment of The Watch List: We investigate the use and potential overuse of powerful antipsychotic medication on foster children, with a special look at Texas, which has worked to reform its practices. (for future archive)

FYI: PBS tonight – The Watch List: The medication of foster children

Atypical Antipsychotic Medication Evidence Called into Question

Atypical Antipsychotic Medication Evidence Called into Question

Despite their widespread advertising, prescriptions and use, atypical antipsychotic medications — the newest kind of antipsychotic medication available — lacks sufficient evidence to support their widespread and generalized usage. This according to a new study out of the Stanford University School of Medicine and University of Chicago.

What is happening in our society that we need to drug five-year-old children?

A report in today’s newspaper says that children with attention deficit disorder (ADHD) can’t switch off the default mode network (DMN) in their brains, the daydreaming function. Stimulant drugs such as methylphenidate may help to switch off this DMN, turn down the volume, as it were, and enable the ADHD sufferer to focus on a task.

What is happening in our society that we need to drug five-year-old children?

Ritalin Dangers Known, Still Being Prescribed To Treat ADHD

Although many experts have warned about the dangers of children using stimulant drugs like Ritalin frequently, doctors continue prescribing these drugs at an alarming rate.

Ritalin Dangers Known, Still Being Prescribed To Treat ADHD

Ritalin use is on the rise

Production of the drug Ritalin has increased ten-fold over the past decade, yet “Fidgety Phil” isn’t the only taker.

Originally prescribed to children considered to be hyperactive, Ritalin is also used as a doping agent and even as a party drug.

Ritalin use is on the rise

Rise in Rx Use in Children

According to Medco Health Solutions Inc., roughly one in four children and nearly 30% of those ages 10 to 19 years take prescription medication on a routine basis.

Rise in Rx Use in Children

Psychiatry—Labeling Kids with Bogus 'Mental Disorders'

There is only one mental health disorder: Psychiatristentia Delusiono Grandeur Disorder (PDGD) Suffers believe themselves to be the sole arbiters of mental health and they compulsively invent new names for mental health disorders and then accuse people of suffering from them. These are seriously disturbed and dangerous individuals best not approached alone. Symptoms include breaking into a sweat and being struck dumb when encountering someone who understands logical fallacies.

25 percent of American children take prescriptions regularly

Gage Martindale, who is 8 years old, has been taking a blood-pressure drug since he was a toddler. “I want to be healthy, and I don’t want things in my heart to go wrong,” he says.

25 percent of American children take prescriptions regularly

Study of the Day: A Quarter of American Children Take Drugs We Don’t Know Much About

According to a recent study from Medico Health Solutions Inc., a leading American pharmacy-benefit manager, more than a quarter of U.S. children and teenagers are taking prescription medication on a regular basis. Close to 7 percent are on more than one medication.

Study of the Day: A Quarter of American Children Take Drugs We Don’t Know Much About

Some doctors handing out prescriptions to kids for potent medications

With little oversight and apparent carte blanche, a relative handful of Texas physicians wrote $47 million worth of Medicaid prescriptions for powerful antipsychotic and anti-anxiety drugs over the past two years, according to a Star-Telegram analysis.

Some doctors handing out prescriptions to kids for potent medications

WARNING! THE ENTIRE WORLD IS GOING INSANE

A video about the deliberate drugging of our children and the pharmaceutical industry that profits from it.

Medicaid-funded ADHD treatment for children misses the mark

Washington, DC, 7 December 2010 ? The enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 expands Medicare benefits to scores of previously uninsured individuals including many of our nation's children. While access to treatment is laudable, the quality of such treatment is the subject of an article in the December issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

Medicaid-funded ADHD treatment for children misses the mark

FDA Will Examine Link Between Food Dye and Child Behavior

FDA Will Examine Link Between Food Dye and Child Behavior

The Food and Drug Administration will hold a meeting to determine if there is a negative link between child consumption of synthetic color additives in food and a child’s behavior.

Addressing ADHD Children Naturally, Kids Tips, Austin Natural Medicine

Addressing ADHD Children Naturally, Kids Tips, Austin Natural Medicine

Dr. Fritz teaches Obstetrics & Gynecology at the Academy for Oriental Medicine in Austin.