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.

Study: Most children's medicines contain confusing measuring devices

Study: Most children's medicines contain confusing measuring devices

Doctors are urging caution with over-the-counter children's medicine as new research released today shows that many products are confusing and could lead to deadly overdoses.

The study found that of 148 products that came with measuring devices, almost all of them - 146 - had inconsistencies between the directions in or on the package and the markings on the device. The research, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, looked at the 200 top-selling pediatric liquid medications in late 2008 and through October of 2009.

More than 1000 children in the West Midlands falsely labeled drugs and psychiatrists

Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) Birmingham today released the figures in the Freedom of Information Act highlighting the psychiatric infiltration of the education system and subsequent damage to young girls? S minds in the West Midlands and Birmingham.

More than 1000 children in the West Midlands falsely labeled drugs and psychiatrists

Psychiatric medication in young children

Psychiatric medication in young children

I cam across this article recently from the New York Times. It discusses the case of a young boy who was started on an antipsychotic medication when he was 18 months old, and by the time he was three, he was on an antidepressant, antipsychotic, sleeping tablets, and something for ADD (presumably a stimulant).

Johnson & Johnson Fails to Correct Tylenol and Motrin Quality Control Problems

Johnson & Johnson continues to have troubles with its pharmaceutical plant in Puerto Rico, where subsidiary McNeil Consumer Healthcare had to recall millions of bottles of Tylenol, Motrin and other products in January. The latest bad news for Johnson & Johnson came from the Food and Drug Administration after inspectors found numerous problems with the Puerto Rican operation.

Johnson & Johnson Fails to Correct Tylenol and Motrin Quality Control Problems

More teens getting dangerous prescriptions

The chance that a teenager or young adult will receive a prescription for a controlled medication has nearly doubled in the last 15 years in the U.S., according to a new report.

More teens getting dangerous prescriptions

Are drug companies too eager to medicate children?

Are drug companies too eager to medicate children?

It was disturbing to read about the dramatic increase in diagnosed cases of ADHD in N.C. between 2003 and 2007 (“Cases of ADHD rocket in state,” AC-T, Nov. 20). This huge increase in such a short time frame seems inexplicable. In the mid-1990s, there was an explosion in the number of people diagnosed with ADHD once adults were included and the inattentive type of ADHD recognized. Expansion in diagnostic criteria and several popular books like “Driven to Distraction” and “Out of the Fog” increased public awareness of this disorder.

Orphans Used by CPS + Catholic Services in Drug Experiments

BBC Documentary 'Guinea Pig Kids'. The House That AIDS Built.

How Children Feel on Psychiatric Medication including Prozac

A child's view on psychiatric medication and how it made them feel

Around 40 children fall sick after polio drug administration

Around 40 children fall sick after polio drug administration

Kids' ER visits fell after cold medicines' removal

Kids' ER visits fell after cold medicines' removal

CHICAGO — Removing cough and cold medicines for very young children from store shelves led to a big decline in emergency room visits for bad reactions to the drugs, government research found.

Call for information on drugging foster children

Call for information on drugging foster children

GAO investigating drugging of children

At the request of Congress, the Government Accounting Office (GAO) is seeking information regarding cases in which state foster children have been prescribed psychotropic medication outside of federal regulations or accepted medical standards of practice.