Tag Archives: Child Drugging

One in Four Youth in US Child Welfare System Prescribed Psychiatric Drugs, Three Times the Rate for Others, Government Says

Study is latest to find that children traumatized by removal from their families and homes are prescribed powerful psychotropic drugs at high rates. Continue reading

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Foster Children Prescribed Psychiatric Drugs At Four Times the Rate of Non-Foster Children, New Study Finds

Previous government recommendations for improved oversight of psychotropics in foster care have not resolved the overdrugging problem. Continue reading

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Antidepressants Increase Risk of Suicidal Behavior in Children and Young Adults, Don’t Reduce Risk in Adults, Study Says

Other recent research has found antidepressants double the risk of suicidal thoughts and actions in adults. Continue reading

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White Paper on Improving Psychiatric Patient Outcomes

Psychiatric incarceration and psychiatric drugging of children is tragic and should be stopped. Continue reading

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Emergency Room Visits for Children’s Mental Health Fails to Help

Stop psychiatric drugging of kids. Continue reading

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Obedience Pills: ADHD and the Medicalization of Childhood

Teaching the diagnosed they are not responsible for their behavior. Continue reading

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Suicide Attempts Increasing In Children

More and more of these attempts are from ingesting toxic substances or overdosing on medications. Continue reading

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Putting Profit Above Children’s Lives

The Fight For Kids – “There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.” — Nelson Mandela Continue reading

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Babies Under a Year Old Being Given Harmful Psychiatric Drugs

Be a Hero and help someone who has been a victim of psychiatric abuse. Continue reading

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Child Psychiatric Treatment—Drugs, Solitary Confinement, Torture and Abuse

This is the Fight For Kids. Continue reading

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