By Evelyn Pringle, Martha Rosenberg
AlterNet.org
Young children were once expected to outgrow their issues; now they’re diagnosed with lifelong psychiatric problems.
Where do parents and teachers get the idea there’s something wrong with kids that only an expensive drug can fix? From Big Pharma’s seamless web of ads, subsidized doctors, journals, medical courses and conferences, paid “patient” groups, phony public services messages […]
by Alliance for Natural Health
Some doctors are now prescribing long-term ADHD medications to low-income kids who don’t have ADHD—simply to boost academic performance.
One physician, Dr. Michael Anderson of Canton, Georgia, calls ADHD a “made up” disorder, “an excuse” for doctors to prescribe Adderall to treat poor academic performance in inadequate schools. According to a disturbing […]
By Evelyn Pringle and Martha Rosenberg
AlterNet.com
Who belongs to this “untapped” market? Just about anybody.
There is good news and bad news about attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) — that is, if you’re a drug company. The bad news is the kid market has peaked out with 4.5 million U.S. children now carrying the label. The good […]
by Martha Rosenberg
Citizens Commission on Human Rights International
How has Big Pharma managed to get so many children on expensive drug cocktails for “mental illness”? Drugs that they may not even need?
Big Pharma has spent millions on public relations campaigns that tell parents, teachers and clinicians to dose children at the first sign of problems. It knows if […]
by CCHR International
A recent article posted in the Wall Street Journal posed the question, “Are ADHD Medications Overprescribed?”
Is that a rhetorical question? 5 million children are currently taking ADHD drugsin the U.S. alone.
In fact the U.S. has the unfortunate distinction of being the world’s leader when it comes to child drugging—the top nation fueling the […]
By Dr. Mercola
Thanks to aggressive marketing techniques, pharmaceutical companies are raking in profits from atypical antipsychotic medications – drugs originally approved for mental illnesses that are as serious as they are rare.
It’s no surprise then that a major portion of the sales of these types of “hard-core” psychiatric drugs come from off-label uses. Drugs […]
by Heidi Stevenson
Gaia Health
John McCarthy speaks passionately about prescription of psychiatric drugs to children. Rebecca Riley was four years old—”four and bold”—given four drugs at once, and she died from the cure. Her psychiatrists are still in practice.
Take just 5 minutes to listen to this incredibly moving piece, when McCarthy spoke at Health Actions International’s […]
by Citizens Commission on Human Rights International
U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, Herb Kohl, D-Wis., and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., filed an amendment last week seeking to combat the costly, widespread and inappropriate use of antipsychotics in nursing homes.
“This amendment responds to alarming reports about the use of antipsychotic drugs with nursing home residents,” Grassley said. “It’s […]
by Jacob Sullum
Citizens Commission on Human Rights
Several interesting articles about the upcoming revisions to psychiatry’s diagnostic manual, for the new DSM 5.
The next edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, scheduled to be published a year from now, is expected to include a looser definition of addiction that will qualify millions […]
Health Impact News Editor Comment: In 2011 Health Impact News was one of the first news sources to cover the story of Maryanne Godboldo, a Detroit home-school mother who refused to give her child powerful anti-psychotic drugs after she was developmentally disabled due to vaccines. She refused to give up her daughter to Child […]
