Canada warns ADHD drug takers over “psychiatric events”
(NewsTarget – September 25 2006) In the wake of two dozen reported cases of mood, personality and psychological reactions that may be linked to ADHD drugs — including agitation, hallucinations and three suicides — Health Canada is revising it’s prescribing and patient information for all such drugs in [...]
ADHD drugs to carry new warnings about psychotic behavior
(NewsTarget - August 22 2006) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced yesterday that several ADHD drugs must now carry information on the labels warning consumers of the risk of heart problems and psychotic behavior associated with taking the drugs. FDA spokeswoman Susan Bro says GlaxoSmithKline’s Dexetrine drug [...]
Byronchild Magazine for progressive families http://www.byronchild.com/arts30.htm
Wildest Colts Resources – A resource site for parents, and a challenge to the biomedical mental health industry. http://www.wildestcolts.com/
Ablechild.org – Parents for Label and Drug Free education http://www.ablechild.org/
AbleChild: Parents for Label and Drug Free Education consists of a growing number of parents outraged over both the subjective labeling (ADHD, ADD, [...]
Robert Whitaker is a highly respected journalist and author of ‘Mad In America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill’. Found the following on PBS American Experience
“Journalist Robert Whitaker’s articles on the mentally ill and the drug industry have won several awards, including the George Polk Award for medical writing and [...]
What Drugmakers of ADD & ADHD Drugs Don’t Want You to Know http://www.ritalindeath.com/ADHD-Drug-Deaths.htm
“Thousands of children have suddenly died over the years, as a direct result of using psychotropic drugs used for ADD and ADHD.”
Here you’ll find a photo of Stephanie Hall and other children who have died as a result of psychotropic drugs. Their stories [...]
Just found this article written by the neurologist Fred A. Baughman Jr., MD and it’s so very sad what happened to this young girl and her family. The story was covered on CBS’ Hard Copy, June 24, 1998. Please click the link to find out more, I only posted an excerpt.
DEATH BY ADHD
Who Killed Stephanie Hall? by [...]
Was really happy to find this article, and I’ve posted some of it. It’s something I’ve always suspected about autistic intelligence. Dr. Mottron is professor of psychiatry at the University of Montreal and world-renowned autism researcher at L’Hôpital Rivière des Prairies, which isn’t so far from where I live here in Montreal. Michelle Dawson is an autistic who [...]
‘NTs’… When a Word Becomes ‘Loaded’ and Why I Don’t do Bigotry - by Donna Williams (my favourite part)
“Now, I make it clear, bigotry is about heirachy and I don’t do heirachy.
I don’t care how much abuse or prejudice or bigotry I received from Harry, Mary or Joe and I’ve written enough books on it to [...]