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On the Web
- 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.]
- Frontline: Medicating Kids - A one hour documentary which examines the dramatic increase in the prescription of behavior-modifying drugs for children.
- Drugged Obedience in the School - 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.
- Salon News: P is for Prozac - How a government corrupted by special interests is spawning a generation of medicated preschoolers.
- The Great A.D.D. Hoax - "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 Artisan (SP) temperament, and ADD reflects a medical bias against this personality type.
- 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.
- Psychiatric News: Charges of Overdiagnsis, Overmedication of ADHD Are Exaggerated, Study Shows - Summarizes an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
- Little City Foundation Adoption Program - Matching preadoptive parents with children who are wards of the State of Illinois with developmental, behavioral, medical and emotional disorders.
- The Mentor Network - A national network of local human services providers offering community-based services to adults and children with developmental disabilities and to children and adolescents with emotional, behavioral and medically complex challenges.
- Allen Moulton - Assessment, psychotherapy, and consultation to children and their families, and to teens and adults with emotional, behavioral, and medically related needs.
Wikipedia Articles
- Agitation (emotion) - Agitation is a behavior that indicates unrest. An extreme form is known as the psychomotor agitation, a frequent side effect of antipsychotic medication.
- Psychiatric and mental health nursing - Psychiatric nursing or mental health nursing is the specialty of nursing that cares for people of all ages with mental illness or mental distress, such as psychosis, depression or dementia. Nurses in this area receive additional training in psychological therapies, building a therapeutic alliance, dealing with challenging behavior, and the administration of psychiatric medication.
- Psychoactive drug - A psychoactive drug or psychotropic substance is a chemical substance that acts primarily upon the central nervous system where it alters brain function, resulting in temporary changes in perception, mood, consciousness and behavior. These drugs may be used recreationally to purposefully alter one's consciousness, as entheogens for ritual or spiritual purposes, or therapeutically as medication.