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Behavior Medication (18)

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Frontline: Medicating Kids Open in a new browser window  
   A one hour documentary which examines the dramatic increase in the prescription of behavior-modifying drugs for children.
   http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/medicating/
Salon News: P is for Prozac Open in a new browser window  
   How a government corrupted by special interests is spawning a generation of medicated preschoolers.
   http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/03/21/prozac
Psychiatric News: Charges of Overdiagnsis, Overmedication of ADHD Are Exaggerated, Study Shows Open in a new browser window  
   Summarizes an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
   http://www.psych.org/pnews/98-05-01/adhd.html
JS Online: Lawmakers hear stories of Ritalin overuse Open in a new browser window  
   Lawmakers on the House Education and Workforce Committee hear complaints and comments about the use and abuse of Ritalin.
   http://www.jsonline.com/alive/family/may00/ritalin17051600.asp
ADHD Study: Study Points to More Targeted Use of Ritalin: Drug Not Effective For All Open in a new browser window  
   While examining the brains of hyperactive, inattentive boys, Harvard researchers found a reduced flow of blood into a specific area of the brain known as the putamen which helps to control movement and attention.
   http://www.healing-arts.org/children/ADHD/harvard-ritalin.htm
Drugged Obedience in the School Open in a new browser window  
   Summarizes how various narcotics increase and decrease sensory attention and motor activity, and argues that medicating children to get satisfactory behavior is the wrong approach for a number of reasons.
   http://www.keirsey.com/druggedobedience.html
Over Diagnosis of ADHD, Overuse of Ritalin, and its Causes Open in a new browser window  
   Short article with references.
   http://www.students.stedwards.edu/~sgottne/summ5.htm
Ritalin - Miracle Drug or Cop-Out? Open in a new browser window  
   Republication of an article by Ken Livingston.
   http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/medicating/readings/publicinterest.html
Connecticut Bars Schools from Suggesting Drugs for Kids Open in a new browser window  
   A new Connecticut law prohibits schools from suggesting that children with attention deficit disorder be put on Ritalin or other mood-altering drugs amid concerns kids are over-medicated. Diane Orson reports on Morning Edition, from NPR. Realaudio format
   http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/me/20011217.me.10.ram
NYTimes.com - Schools' Backing of Behavior Drugs Comes Under Fire Open in a new browser window  
   State legislatures are moving to prevent schools from recommending or requiring that parents put their children on behavior medication. This comes at a time when many drug manufacturers are encouraging parents to consider their products as possible solut
   http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/19/health/children/19RITA.html
No More Ritalin Open in a new browser window  
   Book by Dr. Mary Ann Block covering the use of Ritalin and a non-drug approach to treating children diagnosed with ADHD.
   http://www.blockcenter.com/
Parents Told to Give Child Ritalin Open in a new browser window  
   Parents are told by the court to give their child Ritalin.
   http://add.about.com/health/add/library/weekly/aa081700a.htm
Resolution to Ban Ritalin Open in a new browser window  
   Presentation by Patti Johnson, Colorado State Board of Education, encouraging the banning of Ritalin.
   http://add.about.com/health/add/library/weekly/blpattijohnson.htm
Ritalin and ADD/ADHD. Open in a new browser window  
   Information on the use of Ritalin on school children; side effects and evidence of over-medication; tips for parents on how to tell if their child needs Ritalin and how they can help their child handle the symptoms for which they have been prescribed the
   http://www.scn.org/~bk269/r-ball.html
ADHD and Medication Open in a new browser window  
   Balanced information on the proper use of Ritalin in individuals who might have attention deficit disorder.
   http://www.baltimorepsych.com/adhd_and_medication.htm
Better Children through Chemistry Open in a new browser window  
   Article, presented by Meta News, on the use of drugs, particularly Ritalin, to combat ADD.
   http://www.columbia.edu/cu/21stC/issue-3.1/deben.html
Why Ritalin Rules Open in a new browser window  
   How has it come to pass that where every child from preschool onward can recite the "anti-drug" catechism by heart, millions of children are being legally drugged with a substance so similar to cocaine that, as one journalist accurately summariz
   http://www.policyreview.org/apr99/eberstadt.html
The Great A.D.D. Hoax Open in a new browser window  
   "Attention deficit disorder" is a hoax in that there is no such "mental disorder" to "diagnose" and "treat." Children labled as ADD are normal. They differ from what is expected of them in that they are of the Art
   http://keirsey.com/addhoax.html

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