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?