Tag: stimulant drugs and children
A Nurseâs Nightmare: Child Nearly Dies from ADHD Drug
My hope and prayer is that this dramatic look at a negative effect of this class of drugs will help you understand that, in my professional assessment, their risks outweigh their benefits.
FDA Approves Using Electricity All Night Long on Childrenâs Brains
The FDA just approved sales of an electrical device called the Monarch eTNS to be used on the brains of children diagnosed with so-called ADHD. The device âsends therapeutic signals to the parts of the brain thought to be involved in ADHD,â according to the FDA press release. âTherapeutic signalsâ? Really?
Sounding an Alarm Over Childrenâs Mental Health
Guardian readers respond to news about soaring Ritalin use, the underfunding of child mental health services and the toll GCSEs are taking.
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Warning to Parents: Psychiatry is How Kids Get High and Die...
Street drug dealers and stimulant-peddling doctors both get clients high and addicted for profit. So there is really no difference between what they do except that doctors are more âsuccessfulâ at it, since they enjoy many advantages over illicit dealers and can get away with doing it legally.
Enough is Enough Series, #5 â The ADHD Fiction is Exposed....
The time has come that the fictitious ADHD qualifies for my âEnough is Enoughâ series. Itâs time to stop addressing pharmaceutical psychiatry on its own terms: its fraudulent and corrupt 'science,' its spurious 'evidence base,' and its imaginary psychiatric âdiseases.â Iâm done with this. The evidence is in. Letâs get real. Psychiatry has become a profession of drug pushers. As a psychiatrist I am beyond troubled. Letâs get real.
“The Overdiagnosis of ADHD”
The general theme, that various "mental illnesses" are being "overdiagnosed" is gaining popularity in recent years among some psychiatrists, presumably in an effort to distance themselves from the trend of psychiatric-drugs-on-demand-for-every-conceivable-human-problem that has become an escalating and undeniable feature of American psychiatric practice. But the implicit assumptions â that there is a correct level of such labeling, and that the label has some valid ontological significance â are emphatically false.
Despite Official Recommendations, Young Children Are Still Receiving Drugs Instead of...
In 2011 the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) issued guidelines recommending therapy over stimulant drugs as the primary treatment for children diagnosed with âADHD.â New research from the CDC reveals, however, that children between ages 2 and 5 are still being prescribed medications before receiving the recommended therapy or psychological services. Overall, the researchers found that 75% of these children are being prescribed âADHDâ drugs while no more than 55% receive psychological treatments. Incredibly, among children on private insurances, the percentage of children receiving psychological services for âADHDâ showed no increase following the 2011 recommendations.