NetQuantum :: Society :: Issues :: Education :: Behavior_Medication ::

See also:

• 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)

» 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)