Report finds no systemic failure in Loudoun Co.’s restraint, seclusion of special needs students

After allegations that Loudoun County public schools were isolating children with special needs in makeshift cells and improperly restraining them, Virginia’s Department of Education’s investigation has found isolated mistakes, but “no evidence of systemic failure.”

In March, nine state lawmakers asked Virginia’s secretary of education to investigate, after a report in the Loudoun Times-Mirror included a photo of a student at Belmont Ridge Middle School trying to climb out of a small pen where she was being kept, isolated from other students in the classroom.

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DRUGGING THE US: THE EPIDEMIC OF FORCED PSYCHOTROPIC PHARMACEUTICALS

The consequences arising from the massive proliferation of pharmaceutical drugs in the United States are staggering. The fallout from the pharmaceutical industry can be felt in all corners of America, by people from every background and economic standing, but recent developments revealing that immigrant children held at detention centers were forcibly drugged with a variety of psychotropic substances against their will are among the most troubling incidents to have come to the forefront of America’s pharmaceutical nightmare.

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Schools asking parents about their child’s mental health history

Tucked at the bottom of Palm Beach County’s student registration form, on the page that begins with who is permitted to pick up your child from school and just under the box to check if a student has life-threatening allergies, is a new question: Has the student ever been referred for mental health services?

Yes? No? Not known?

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Mind-control engineers drugging children for “Social Justice”

It’s the latest thing. Psychiatrists are giving children in poor neighborhoods Adderall, a dangerous stimulant, by making false diagnoses of ADHD, or no diagnoses at all. Their aim? To “promote social justice,” to improve academic performance in school.

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Texas can't let vaccination fears endanger children

Texas parents, we applaud the tens of thousands of you who will make the trek to the doctor this summer to get your kids’ vaccinations. You know that getting routine and timely shots has proven to help the U.S. fight off preventable childhood diseases.

But here’s a public health alert: You should be aware that the chances that your kid is sitting next to a student who hasn’t been vaccinated are growing at an alarming rate. That classmates’ parents have bought into discredited junk science and opted out of protecting their own kids. And they are endangering yours.

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Emerging Hot Spots Of Disease Outbreaks Due To Parents Not Vaccinating Their Children

With the onset of parents deciding to not vaccinate their children, new research is showing that there are emerging hotspots of disease outbreaks associated with these lack of vaccinations. Through the work of vaccines, we have managed to evade and eliminate the risk of many diseases like measles and mumps.

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New study reveals gap in mental health services for at-risk kids

In a paper published in The Lancet Public Health this month, a University of South Australia (UniSA) research team has estimated a concerning gap in the workforce required to deliver tertiary-level community health care to infants, children, adolescents and their families across South Australia.


The world-first, needs-based study, funded by the NHMRC and SA Health and led by UniSA expert in the social determinants of health, Professor Leonie Segal, identified seven per cent of children (to age 18) in South Australia are suffering very high to extreme levels of distress.


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For Troubled Kids, Some Schools Take Time Out For Group Therapy

Evidence of Psycho-Babble School Systems

Sometimes 11-year-old B. comes home from school in tears. Maybe she was taunted about her weight that day, called "ugly." Or her so-called friends blocked her on their phones. Some nights she is too anxious to sleep alone and climbs into her mother's bed. It's just the two of them at home, ever since her father was deported back to West Africa when she was a toddler.

B.'s mood has improved lately, though, thanks to a new set of skills she is learning at school. (We're using only first initials to protect students' privacy.) Cresthaven Elementary School in Silver Spring, Md., is one of growing number of schools offering kids training in how to manage emotions, handle stress and improve interpersonal relationships.

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Perhaps they should offer free Karate classes to bullied kids instead of psycho-therapy.  You know something that helps to toughen them up so they aren't easy targets...

Just a thought.

Kids Are Taking Fewer Antibiotics, More ADHD Meds

Children and adolescents are getting fewer prescription drugs than they did in years past, according to a study that looks at a cross-section of the American population.

"The decrease in antibiotic use is really what's driving this overall decline in prescription medication use that we're seeing in children and adolescents," says Craig Hales, a preventive medicine physician at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics and lead author of a study published Tuesday in JAMA.

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US experts back marijuana-based drug for childhood seizures

A medicine made from the marijuana plant moved one step closer to U.S. approval Thursday after federal health advisers endorsed it for the treatment of severe seizures in children with epilepsy.

If the Food and Drug Administration follows the group's recommendation, GW Pharmaceuticals' syrup would become the first drug derived from the cannabis plant to win federal approval in the U.S.

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Big Pharma Created ‘ADHD’ to Push Drugs on Children for Profit

ADHD is a controversial topic in itself. Some people believe strongly in its existence and others are not easily convinced. I believe regardless of our opinions of its validity we can all agree lots of children who do not have it are diagnosed with it and treated for it.

Many doctors have been speaking out about this problem for years and all the while others do not hesitate to slap an ADHD label on just about any ‘problem’ child. One of those speaking out against this diagnosis is Richard Saul who happens to be a neurologist. He has had a very long career in patients with short attention spans and those who also struggle with focusing. Saul has mentioned on more than one occasion that he strongly believes ADHD is a ‘fake disorder.’

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Improving the Use of Psychotropic Medication for Children in Foster Care: State Profiles

Children in foster care, who typically rely on Medicaid to cover their physical and behavioral health service needs, are more likely than other children to receive psychotropic medications. In response, as part of federal legislation passed in 2012, states were newly required to develop protocols for the appropriate use and monitoring of psychotropic medications for children in foster care.


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Doctors push for annual teen depression screenings

Teen depression often goes undiagnosed.

“Probably 20 percent of kids are going to experience a depressive episode at some point during their teenage years. Unfortunately, we are not identifying two out of three of those kids who is experiencing depression,” said Dr. Stephen Johnson who is a pediatrician and child psychologist for Norton Pediatrics.

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Official Studies Report Link Between Psychiatric Drugs and Increased Violence

The Florida chapter of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a non-profit mental health industry watchdog organization that has been investigating and collecting information on psychiatric drug links to school shooters and other acts of senseless violence since 1989, is once again calling upon lawmakers to investigate the plausible link between psychiatric drugs and the recent tragedy in Parkland.

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PROZAC PRESCHOOL

From the time he was a baby, Max, now seven, struggled with crippling anxiety.

"He would fly into screaming rages for no apparent reason," says his mother, Stacy, a 44-year-old lawyer from Seattle who wanted to keep her family's identity private. "He was constantly on edge."

At two years old, Max began three years of behavioral therapy, "but it did nothing to help him," Stacy says. His fear-driven outbursts continued into kindergarten. "Some days, he couldn't even walk into class. I'd have 45 minutes of crying and screaming."


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Handcuffs and a psych exam for a 7-year-old? Schools do that too often, parents say.

A 7-year-old at Miami’s Coral Way K-8 Center was handcuffed, put in the back of a police car and taken to a hospital for an involuntary psychiatric exam after he hit and kicked a teacher during lunch.

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Bizarre hallucinations reported in children taking Tamiflu

Eleven-year-old Lindsay Ellis of Indianapolis, Ind. imagined there were bugs on her body and the devil was whispering in her ear after she took Tamiflu, an anti-influenza medication, KTVT-TV reported.

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Use of sand vests to calm children with ADHD sparks concern

German schools are increasingly asking unruly and hyperactive children to wear heavy sand-filled vests in an effort to calm them and keep them on their seats, despite the misgivings of some parents and psychiatrists.


The controversial sand vests weigh between 1.2 and six kilograms (2.7 – 13Ib) and are being used by 200 schools across Germany.

Advocates of the vests, which cost between €140 and €170(£124 – £150), say they have witnessed a remarkable change in behaviour in many of the children who have worn them, claiming the heavy vests help to curb children’s restlessness.


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Using ADHD drugs to control 'non-compliant' pupils is 'inhumane', say experts

Teachers should monitor the use of medication like Ritalin as part of their safeguarding duties, says British Psychological Society

The use of ADHD drugs like Ritalin to control "non-compliant" pupils is “politically totalitarian, physiologically inhumane” and reminiscent of Stalin’s Russia, leading educational psychologists have said.

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