The Psychiatric Drugging of America's Children

• Patterns of Early Mental Health Diagnosis and Medication Treatment in a Medicaid-Insured Birth Cohort, by Dinci Pennap, MPH; Julie M. Zito, PhD; Paramala J. Santosh, MD, PhD; Sarah E. Tom, PhD; Eberechukwu Onukwugha, PhD; Laurence S. Magder, PhD, JAMA Pediatrics, doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2018.0240. 
• A three-country comparison of psychotropic medication prevalence in youth, by Julie M Zito, Daniel J Safer, Lolkje TW de Jong-van den Berg, Katrin Janhsen, Joerg M Fegert, James F Gardner, Gerd Glaeske, Satish C Valluri, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, 2008, 2:26
• Pediatric bipolar disorder: An object of study in the creation of an illness, by David Healy and Joanna Le Noury, International Journal of Risk & Safety in Medicine, 19 (2007) 209–221.
• Trends in the Use of Psychotropic Medications Among Adolescents, 1994 to 2001, by Cindy Parks Thomas, Peter Conrad, Rosemary Casler & Elizabeth Goodman, Psychiatric Services, Vol 57. No. 1: 63-69 (2006)
• A Survey of Early-Career Child ad Adolescent Psychiatrists: Professional Activities and Perceptions, by Dorothy Stubbe and W.John Thomas, American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 41:2, 123-130.  This study (p. 126 & Fig 4) found that 91% of patients, received drugs and only 9% received just psychotherapy.
• Children and Psychotropic Drugs: What's An Attorney To Do?, by by Kathi Grasso, originally appearing in the June 1997 issue of ABA Child Law Practice, published by the ABA Center on Children and the Law.
• EdWatch
• ASPIRE
• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder - (Exposing the Fraud of ADD and ADHD) -  The official website of Fred A. Baughman Jr., MD (Neurologist, Pediatric Neurology)
• ADHD Report
• Kids Have Rights
• ADHD Action Files: Drugging Our Children from garynull.com
• DocDiller.com
• Wildest Colts Resources
• Alisos Institute
• Proactive Therapy Innovations on  Learning Disabilities
•  http://www.ablechild.org

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Articles by George Stone, MA, MSW, LCSW

• Preventing the Hospitalization of Disturbed Youth
• Putting Parents in Charge of Solving School Problems
• Context and Collaboration in Strategic Therapy: Principles for Context Sensitive Community Mental Health Treatment, March 28, 2008 Draft.

State Information

Alaska

New Jersey

• NJ Legislator: Probe Antipsychotics, Kids & Medicaid, by Ed Silverman, Pharmalot, February 25, 2008.

Vermont

Michigan

• April-June 2006, & April-June, 2007 Michigain Medicaid Psychiatric Drugging of Children under 18.

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