Categories related to Society: Issues: Education: Behavior Medication: Health: Child Health: Information and Advice: Mental Health (9) Health: Medicine: Pharmacology: Psychopharmacology (21) Health: Mental Health: Disorders: Child and Adolescent: ADD and ADHD (65) Health: Mental Health: Disorders: Neurodevelopmental: ADD and ADHD (150) Reference: Education: Special Education: Learning Disabilities: Attention Deficit Disorder (8) Shopping: Health: Mental Health: ADD and ADHD (11) Society: Issues: Health: Mental Health: Anti-Psychiatry Organizations: ADD and ADHD (2) Society: Issues: Health: Mental Health: Medication: Ritalin (19) Websites on Behavior Medication: AbleChild An organization that works against the labeling and medicating of children. Provides information regarding the subjective labels and the risks associated with drug treatment. Frontline: Medicating Kids A one hour documentary which examines the dramatic increase in the prescription of behavior-modifying drugs for children. NYTimes.com - Schools' Backing of Behavior Drugs Comes Under Fire 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 solutions to school problems. [Requires free NYTimes.com registration to view.] (August 19, 2001) Salon News: P is for Prozac How a government corrupted by special interests is spawning a generation of medicated preschoolers. (March 21, 2000) Psychiatric News: Charges of Overdiagnsis, Overmedication of ADHD Are Exaggerated, Study Shows Summarizes an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). (May 1, 1998)
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