Now studies are backing up anecdotal evidence that ADHD gets inappropriately applied to many children.
An analysis by economist Todd Elder at Michigan State University suggests that about 900,000 children who have been told they have ADHD in America may not have the condition at all. The study will appear in the Journal of Health Economics.
Elder [...]
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SOUTH BEND, Ind., June 28 /PRNewswire/ — A recently completed investigation by the state of Indiana supports whistleblower allegations that Madison Center, a behavioral treatment organization in northern Indiana, for years actively sought troubled children to enroll in its programs to boost its Medicaid revenues but then failed to properly [...]
June 1, 2010 | From theTrumpet.com
One in four children took drugs for chronic conditions in 2009, according to a new report.
Prescription drug use among youngsters in the United States is growing at nearly four times the rate as among the overall population. A new report shows that nearly a quarter of insured children and almost [...]
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New Study: 20% of Teens Abuse Drugs Not Prescribed to Them
We talk with a local expert about the trend.
Updated: Friday, 04 Jun 2010, 11:54 PM CDT
by Tim Blotz and Mary Costello, FOX 9 News
Eden Prairie, Minn. – Think those illegal drugs some of our teenagers are taking are all street drugs?
Think again.
A new [...]
Growing numbers of children on medication
NewsTimes.com
By Eileen FitzGerald
June 7, 2010
Here’s just one statistic that Danbury school psychologist Charles Manos worries about: 42 percent of all kids in foster care are taking three or more mood-altering drugs.
“All kids in foster care have some story of trauma, like abuse or neglect, so we need to ask the question [...]
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Drugging Children. Instead of Teaching Children to Manage Behavior The New Trend is To Medicate Them
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Psychiatric Drugging Of Infants And Toddlers In The US – Part I
CounterCurrents.org
By Evelyn Pringle
April 19, 2010
The United States has become the psychiatric drugging capital of the world for kids with children being medicated [...]
Two front page articles in today’s New York Times are of particular significance addressing both quality of care and expenditure.
1. “Revising Book on Disorders of the Mind” by Benedict Carey, reveals that the bipolar diagnosis for children and the prescribing of toxic antipsychotics for children will be delegitimized in the revised diagnostic manual in psychiatry, [...]
It is widely held that chemical restraint is much more invasive than physical restraint with much greater side effects, especially with children. Apparently the U.S. Department of Justice thinks so too. Drug maker Johnson & Johnson paid tens of millions of dollars in kickbacks to nursing home pharmacies in order to boost the sale of [...]
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Prescriptions for psychiatric drugs increased 50 percent with children in the US, and 73 percent among adults, from 1996 to 2006, according to a study in the May/June 2009 issue of the journal Health Affairs. Another study in the same issue of Health Affairs found spending for mental health care grew more than 30 percent [...]
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Big Pharma: if you can’t treat ‘em then drug ‘em
Powerful mood-altering drugs were prescribed to hundreds of Illinois foster children without the required consent of state child welfare officials, a Chicago Tribune analysis of government data has found.
And increasing numbers of young wards were diagnosed with bipolar disorder and given a class of anti-psychotic medicines [...]