EDITORIAL: Drugs in the Classroom, Part Four

I plan to attend the 5pm work session of the Archuleta School Board this evening, Tuesday January 13, when the board will discuss a “Strategic Framework” of proposed educational improvements developed by superintendent Linda Reed and her staff. This Framework has been under development for over a year, but I believe the document posted to the School Board website yesterday — which you can download here — is the first opportunity the board (or the public) has had to see all of the proposed changes in one, coherent, 45-page summary.

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EDITORIAL: Drugs in the Classroom, Part Two

It was obvious to me that the cartoon map used in the 12-minute RSA (Royal Society for the Arts) YouTube video was less than perfectly accurate. For one thing, some of the U.S. states were not present, or were very poorly drawn. But then, cartoons are always abstractions.

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Mind-altering Medication: Attention Hyperactivity Deficit Disorder (ADHD) Drugs Greatly Decrease Academic Performance in Children

Children who take mind-altering medications like Ritalin (methylphenidate) and Adderall (amphetamine and dextroamphetamine) for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have been shown in a new peer-reviewed study to perform worse in school than if they weren’t taking the substances at all.

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Texas doctors rarely charged in prescription abuse

Many Texas doctors who violate prescription drug laws have little to fear from prosecutors, even when their patients die of an overdose.

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Children’s Psychology : How to Treat ADHD Naturally

Treating ADHD naturally requires pinpointing the behavioral triggers and addressing those triggers without medication. Treat hyperactivity sans medication with information from a licensed clinical psychologist in this free video on emotional and mental health.

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Texas Doctors Rarely Face Charges in Prescription Abuse Cases

Many Texas doctors who violate prescription drug laws have little to fear from prosecutors, even when their patients die of an overdose.

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What Does Santa Think About ADHD Drugs?

According to sources at the North Pole, Santa is not happy about the growing use of ADHD drugs. As you know, long ago, he had made his list and checked it twice.

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Maine legislators seek to boost immunizations

At least three proposals for the upcoming Maine legislative session aim to lower the number of parents opting out of immunizations.

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UK Pre-school Kids Are Given "Chemical Cosh" Drugs To Curb Hyperactivity

A survey by the Division of Educational and Child Psychologists at the British Psychological Society, a representative body for psychology in the UK, found that children as young as two years old were being given "chemical cosh" drugs, a term given for a strong sedative, to keep a control on hyperactivity. The survey involved 136 psychologists in 70 local authorities in the UK.

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Drugging Children Is Big Business For The Psychiatric Industry

Twenty million children worldwide are labeled with "mental disorders" that are based solely on a checklist of behaviors. Practice labeled child abuse.

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Concern over pre-school ADHD drugs

More than a fifth of school psychologists in England know of children under the age of six who have been prescribed ADHD drugs to treat behavioural problems despite it being against health guidelines, a study has found.

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ADHD drugs increasingly prescribed to treat hyperactivity in pre-schoolers

An “alarming” number of pre-school children are being prescribed drugs to treat hyperactivity – contrary to medical guidelines that say they should not be used on children under six – because overstretched health workers go straight to medication rather than offering psychological interventions.

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Drugging our kids: A bold step away from heavy medication

Drugging our kids: A bold step away from heavy medication

After a decade in California foster care, Yolanda had become so medicated with psychiatric drugs, she practically lost the ability to speak.

Rate of Prescribing Psychotropic Drugs to Kentucky Children Studied at UofL

Researchers with the Child and Adolescent Health Research Design and Support Unit at the University of Louisville have begun a study to examine one of Kentucky's most vexing children's health issues: the higher-than-average rate of psychotropic medication being prescribed to children in the Bluegrass State.

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Drug Companies: Stop Drugging Our Kids For Acting Like Kids!

It’s a funny old world! We put people in prison for selling amphetamine and cocaine , but allow drug companies to ‘deal’ ritalin to our children… 4.5 million children in the USA. Ritalin, like amphetamine and cocaine, is a Schedule II drug and has similar neurochemical effects in that it enhances dopamine function. This hypocrisy – and the damage it is doing to our children – disgusts me.

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Global Increase in ADHD Diagnoses Due to Drug Company Marketing and Lobbying, Study Shows

Like many other so-called “behavioral” disorders, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, is a completely fabricated condition that was invented for the sole purpose of turning normal behavioral variances into “diseases” that require costly drug interventions. This crafty pharmaceutical scam is now spreading around the world, according to a new study, with drug companies effectively lobbying foreign governments to loosen their marketing restrictions on mind-altering drug treatments in order to get more people hooked on legal drugs.

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Prof. Conrad studies medicalization of ADHD

“I was the kind of kid who would get up and walk around, look at the goldfish, read the encyclopedias in the back of the room, talk to neighbors,” Peter Conrad, a professor of sociology, said in regard to his childhood. “Had ADHD been an option as a diagnosis in the ’50s, which it wasn’t, I would have been probably labeled and gotten a trial and medications.”

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Foster youth drugged

Doctors wooed by Big Pharma are over-prescribing medication to foster children

Foster youth drugged

Rate of prescribing psychotropic drugs to Kentucky kids studied

Researchers with the Child and Adolescent Health Research Design and Support Unit (CAHRDS Unit) at the University of Louisville have begun a study to examine one of Kentucky's most vexing children's health issues: the higher-than-average rate of psychotropic medication being prescribed to children in the Bluegrass State.

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Regulation needed to curb overpricing of drugs for children, say advocates

Scrutiny of doctors who prescribe psychotropic drugs to California foster children intensified this week, with growing calls for regulators to consider whether financial relationships with pharmaceutical companies may be driving the excessive use of medication.

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