Category Archives: Over medication of Children by Doctors

Babies Given Psychotropic Drugs to Keep Them Under Control


diagnosis, while another 143 children had the diagnosis described as:”other.” It is clear that psychotropic drugs are being used as chemical restraints– a form of child abuse. Indeed, Richard Wexler, head of the Virginia-based National Coalition for Child Protection Reform … Continue reading

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Children in Foster Care and Psychotropic Drugs


By Sandra Distelhorst VANCOUVER — May 8, 2010 — The prescribing of psychoactive medication, particularly atypical antipsychotics, for children and adolescents has steadily increased over the past decade, according to a study presented here at the 2010 Pediatric Academic Societies … Continue reading

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So much bluster, but foster kids’ drug nightmare continues


Will the oldest child DeShawna be next? She has been placed on psyhotropic drugs by untrained and unskilled people. By Fred Grimm fgrimm@MiamiHerald.com Gabriel Myers died for nothing. His shocking death supposedly galvanized Florida. It would mean something, this suicide … Continue reading

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Foster children are often forced to take multiple psychotropic drugs


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The Latest Study on Children Diagnosed with Bipolar – I Wonder Why It Jumped?


Diagnosis Jumps in Young Children: Study BOSTON (Reuters) – The number of children aged 2 to 5 who have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and prescribed powerful antipsychotic drugs has doubled over the past decade, according to research released on … Continue reading

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