Drugging Children

Editorial, 1/27: Foster kids on psych drugs

2012-01-27T04:35:00.000-08:00

Sen. Gwen Howard wants a task force to examine why more than one in five foster children in Nebraska is taking psychiatric medication.

Editorial, 1/27: Foster kids on psych drugs

Senate Watchdog Targets High-Prescribing Medicaid Docs

2012-01-25T06:00:00.000-08:00

An influential U.S. senator is grilling officials in nearly three-dozen states, demanding to know how they are cracking down on physicians who prescribe massive amounts of potentially dangerous prescription drugs.

Senate Watchdog Targets High-Prescribing Medicaid Docs

NC now looking to scrutinize how Medicaid dispensed to children

2012-01-22T16:57:00.000-08:00

In the grocery store, a child goes through the produce isle picking up items and biting into them. When mom tries to stop him, he takes a bite out of her. Meanwhile, the child has managed to get the attention of shoppers and workers alike.

NC now looking to scrutinize how Medicaid dispensed to children

U.S. to tell drugmakers to disclose payments to doctors

2012-01-17T20:44:00.000-08:00

To head off medical conflicts of interest, the Obama administration is poised to require drug companies to disclose the payments they make to doctors for research, consulting, speaking, travel and entertainment.

U.S. to tell drugmakers to disclose payments to doctors

Antidepressants during pregnancy could cause hypertension in lungs of child

2012-01-16T08:02:00.001-08:00

SSRIs were recently reported of being unable to treat depressive symptoms satisfactorily. This study by scientists at Karolinska Institutet has put forward that SSRI anti- depressants consumed during pregnancy could lead to high blood pressure in the lungs of children.

Antidepressants during pregnancy could cause hypertension in lungs of child

ABC NEWS - DAY 2: -- Psychiatrists Put Kids at Risk With Mind-Altering Drugs

2012-01-08T20:00:00.000-08:00

Patients Frustrated by Shortage of ADHD Drugs

2012-01-05T20:00:00.001-08:00

FDA: Shortage of ADHD Drug

2012-01-04T08:38:00.000-08:00

The FDA is limiting production of Adderal to curb cases of abuse, but now patients are complaining that they cannot find pharmacies to fill their prescriptions.

Diabetic, Low Income Mothers Linked to Children With Higher ADHD Risk

2012-01-04T05:20:00.000-08:00

Diabetic, Low Income Mothers Linked to Children With Higher ADHD Risk

A new study has found gestational diabetes or low social economic status doubled the risk for children developing Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and collectively increases the risk of 14-fold.

Why are we drugging our children?

2012-01-04T04:56:00.000-08:00

Hon. Alannah MacTiernan was first elected to WA State Parliament in 1993 as Member of the Legislative Council and in 1996 as the member for Armadale in the Legislative Assembly. Alannah served as WA Minister for Planning and Infrastructure from 2001- 2008. Alannah officially resigned from state parliament on 19 July 2010 and is the currently the Mayor of the city of Vincent in Western Australia.

Mind-altering drugs overdone in foster care

2012-01-03T08:57:00.000-08:00

A government report says thousands of Medicaid patients in foster care are routinely overprescribed psychotropic and psychotic drugs.

Mind-altering drugs overdone in foster care

When drugging replaced spanking

2011-12-31T06:54:00.001-08:00

When drugging replaced spanking

USA Today recently reported that the number of Americans taking antidepressants is soaring. This could possibly be in direct connection to the controversial TeenScreen survey given to children as young as 9 years old in public schools. TeenScreen has been responsible for policing the mental health of children over the past decade. It is significant that this mental-screening process usurps parental rights over the care of their own children.

Legal, Widespread, and Dangerous: Drugging Kids in Foster Care

2011-12-30T03:54:00.000-08:00

Years ago, rubbing a little brandy on the gums of a teething child was thought to soothe and do no lasting harm. Parents of today who disapprove should be aware of just how often children are prescribed powerful, mind-altering medicines.

Legal, Widespread, and Dangerous: Drugging Kids in Foster Care

Letter: Beware over-medication of youth

2011-12-29T19:06:00.001-08:00

The psychiatric community has been increasingly labeling our children with ADHD, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and depression and putting these kids on strong psychotropic medications.

Letter: Beware over-medication of youth

Ban Forced Psychiatric Medication in Kids

2011-12-25T13:35:00.000-08:00

Ban Forced Psychiatric Medication in Kids

HR.2769 - Parental Consent Act of 2011 - Prohibits federal funds from being used to establish or implement any universal or mandatory mental health, psychiatric, or socioemotional screening program.

The Drug Companies' Newest Profit Weapon to Steal Your Money

2011-12-25T10:36:00.000-08:00

The drug industry spends nearly twice as much on promotion as it does on research and development, and historically one of their key targets has been physicians.

The Drug Companies' Newest Profit Weapon to Steal Your Money

I Drug Kids From Home and Earn $1,750,000 per Year!

2011-12-22T21:24:00.000-08:00

Stan, the millionaire TeenScreen psychiatrist, breaks his silence to reveal his AMAZING child drugging money making secrets!!

I Drug Kids From Home and Earn $1,750,000 per Year!

The Psychiatric Drugging of America's Foster Children

2011-12-22T20:45:00.000-08:00

The Psychiatric Drugging of America's Foster Children

The most vulnerable among us are the littlest victims. Young children, torn from their birth families through various, often unspeakable tragedies. These children end up in state supervised foster care and too often are passed from hand to hand, house to house. There were approximately 662,000 children in foster care in the United States in 2010.

Dark Secrets: Treating Foster Care Children Like Medical Lab Rats

2011-12-13T04:20:00.000-08:00

Medical experiments conducted on vulnerable people, people who are unable to give consent or people who have been misled, are always wrong. It is also wrong when there is reason to believe that the person undergoing the experiment faces serious risks as a result. If you put the two together you have something we used to call a crime. In fact, we prosecuted the Nazis for this behavior.

Dark Secrets: Treating Foster Care Children Like Medical Lab Rats

Shame of a nation: US tested AIDS drugs on foster children

2011-12-12T08:12:00.000-08:00

This is a shameful story. It follows a history in this country of the government subjecting individuals to cruel medical and drug tests. I’m reminded of the Tuskegee syphilis experiments conducted between 1932 and 1972 (see photo above).

Shame of a nation: US tested AIDS drugs on foster children

Revised DSM-5 Could Open Up Wider Legal Claims

2011-12-05T14:38:00.000-08:00

Revised DSM-5 Could Open Up Wider Legal Claims

The American Psychiatric Association is revising its highly influential Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, currently known as DSM-IV (the fifth version will be “DSM-V” or, since a switch to Arabic numbering is planned, “DSM-5″). Nearly 8,000 persons have signed a petition, sponsored by the Society for Humanistic Psychology, Division 32 of the American Psychological Association, which challenges the revision’s proposed widening of the definitions of mental disorder. The letter associated with the petition warns that the revision proposes to lower diagnostic thresholds for many categories of disorder without good reason, as well as introducing new constructs such as “Internet Addiction Disorder” that have “no basis in the empirical literature.” The expansion could lead to inappropriate medical treatment as well as other ill effects.

Experts say Utah foster children are not over medicated

2011-12-03T14:06:00.001-08:00

An ABC investigation uncovers disturbing numbers on how many foster kids nationwide may be severely overmedicated. Some children receiving the anti-depressants and antipsychotic drugs were under the age of two. Utah experts say not here.

Experts say Utah foster children are not over medicated

The drugging of foster kids

2011-12-02T16:52:00.001-08:00

Foster children in Florida prescribed psychotropic drugs at far higher rates in 2008

Foster Kids Are Overly Medicated, Report Says This one is from Fox News.

Same article from the Wall Street Journal Foster Kids Are Overly Medicated, Report Says

Foster Kids Given Psychiatric Drugs At Higher Rates

Foster Kids Get Unneeded Psych Drugs, GAO Says

Foster Kids At Risk For Receiving Psychotropic Drugs

Foster Kids in Texas Getting Way Too Many Psychiactric Drugs

Foster Kids Given Psychiatric Drugs At Higher Rates

Foster Care Children Fall Victim to Drug Companies

Foster children more likely to be prescribed psychotropic drugs than non-foster children, GAO study finds

Foster children prescribed more psychotropic drugs than children not in state care, study says

Siouxland Woman Speaks Out Against Medicating Foster Kids

Stop drugging foster kids into a stupor

Feds Fail To Protect Foster Kids From Potent Psych Meds

Overmedicating Foster Kids: The Cost of Skimping on Care

Mind-Altering Psych Drugs for a 7-Year-Old

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FDA Drug Limit Exceeded in Foster Children

Foster Kids and Meds: Doctors Questioned

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Foster children prescribed more psychiatric drugs

U.S. report: Foster kids get high rate of psych meds

New report suggests overdosing of those in custody

Foster Children Given Harmful Antipsychotics and Tranquilizers as Frequently as Mentally Disabled

Children in foster care being controlled by excessive drugging

Examining the Costs of Medicating America’s Foster Children

Boy, 12, Tells Congress of Years on ‘Stupid’ Meds

Antipsychotic drugs may lead to a heightened risk of diabetes in kids, according to new research.

2011-12-02T13:13:00.000-08:00

Antipsychotic drugs may lead to a heightened risk of diabetes in kids, according to new research.

Antipsychotic drugs may lead to a heightened risk of diabetes in kids, according to new research.

Antipsychotic drugs are used in children to treat conditions such as autism and bipolar disorder. The new findings agree with previous research suggesting that in addition to causing weight gain in kids, these drugs could increase the risk of diabetes in some patients.

When moms on welfare work, kids may lag in vaccines

2011-11-29T20:00:00.001-08:00

When moms on welfare work, their children may be somewhat less likely to get their vaccinations on time, a new study suggests.

When moms on welfare work, kids may lag in vaccines