3 Facts All Parents Should Know About ADHD Stimulant Drugs
Medicating children for a host of mental disorders has become very popular in some parts of the USA. More than 8 million kids from 6 months to 17 years of age are on pharmaceutical drugs in this wonderful country. We lead the world in drugging youth for behavioral, cognitive and attention issues. We are once again #1. But I would like to share with parents as well as adults working with children a few not so readily available facts related to medicating kids for behavior issues.
Margaret Altman – Short Bio
Voiceless in America: Margaret Altman is a crisis intervention specialist and has intervened in many explosive situations within jails, emergency rooms, suicide prevention centers and...
Joseph Tarantolo, MD – Short Bio
Primum Non Nocere: Joseph Tarantolo, MD is a so-called Board Certified psychiatrist. He is a therapist and helps patients wean them selves off of...
Dan Kriegman, PhD – Short Bio
The Politics of Diagnosis and Treatment - An Evolutionary Biological View: A practicing clinical psychologist, Dan Kriegman explores the negotiation of conflicting realities that...
John Hoggett – Long Bio
John Hoggett is a community activist and performance poet with a wide range of interests. He is a founder of Speak Out Against Psychiatry...
Bridget Mildon – Short Bio
Bridget Mildon is President and Founder of FND Hope, spending most of her time helping patients and doctors understand Functional Neurological Disorder. She has submitted commentary...
Asherah Eden – Short Bio
Asherah Eden (b. Jessica Abelson) is a somatic coach, yogini, and priestess, residing in Oakland CA. She has twenty years experience studying, practicing and...
Emma Bragdon, PhD – Short Bio
Emma Bragdon, PhD, is well-known for her two classic books contributing to the field of Spiritual Emergency (1988 & 1990). She has also published 4...
Janet Foner – Short Bio
Janet Foner has been the International Liberation Reference Person for Mental Health Liberation for the global Re-evaluation Counseling community since 1992. She is also...
Amy Upham – Short Bio
Amy is an Asheville, NC based poet/singer-songwriter and playwright. She has her BA in English/Creative Writing from SUNY Geneseo and has earned her keep for the past...
Matthew Ladner – Short Bio
Matthew resigned from his full-time position at Soteria-Alaska to pursue his education in microbiology, but remains an active contributor and supporter of the community and...
Susan Musante, LPCC – Short Bio
Susan Musante, LPCC was the founding director of Soteria-Alaska and CHOICES, alternatives to conventional community mental health services directed and provided primarily by people...
Elinor Taylor – Short Bio
Elinor Taylor will complete her Master's in Counseling in Spring 2015. She has interned as a Mental Health Counselor and is currently working as...
Art Levine – Short Bio
Art Levine is a contributing editor of The Washington Monthly, a recent Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellow and a former Fellow with the Progressive Policy Institute....
Suzanne Beachy – Short Bio
Suzanne Beachy is a mother, musician, writer, and activist, who advocates for more recovery-oriented approaches to treating the kind of mental/emotional distress which gets...
John Read, PhD – Short Bio
John Read is on the Executive Committee of ISPS, and editor of its scientific journal "Psychosis." In 2015, he became Professor of Clinical Psychology at Swinburne University...
Julie Wood – Short Bio
Julie is a CPA, CA and MBA who changed careers when she lost her son, John David, to the effects of psychiatric drugs in...
Luisa Castagnaro – Short Bio
Luisa Castagnaro, MA, is a former teacher of ESL and psychiatric survivor since 1978. Author of Bittersweet Journeys, a poetic anthology, Luisa is working on a...
Bonnie Schell – Short Bio
On Our Own, Together: Bonnie Schell is co-editor of On Our Own, TOGETHER: Peer Programs for People with Mental Illness, and has been an active member of Psychiatric...
Peter Beresford, OBE – Short Bio
Speaking As A Survivor Researcher:Â Peter Beresford is Professor of Social Policy at Brunel University, London and Co-Chair of Shaping Our Lives.
Bevin Croft – Short Bio
Bevin Croft is a Research Associate at Human Services Research Institute and project director of the 2nd Story Peer Respite program evaluation. Her research focuses...
Andrew Scull – Short Bio
Madness in Civilization: Andrew Scull is Professor of Sociology and Science Studies at UC, San Diego. He is the author of many books and...
Timothy Kelly – Short Bio
The Uncertain Real: Timothy Kelly is a doctoral student with interests in psychosocial approaches to, and the sociocultural contexts of, states often under the...
Scott Shannon, MD – Short Bio
Wholeness: Scott has been a holistic doctor and psychiatrist for over thirty years. He has taught physicians and psychiatrists all over the world about...
Becca Shaw Glaser – Short Bio
Becca Shaw Glaser is co-editor and author of Mindful Occupation: Rising Up Without Burning Out (AK Press), a booklet on engaging in activism while caring for...
