Posts Tagged ‘Children at Risk’
Almost 50% of teens Screened for Mental Health Were Referred for Psychiatric Intervention
10 minute Video: "TeenScreen: A National Fraud" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfU9uZQKBY
Read MoreTestimony Against SF 2841-Minnesota – Preschool Socioemotional Screening–Karen Effrem, MD.
I am here in vigorous opposition to SF 2841 that would implement mental health screening for three-year-old children entering public school.
Read MoreSyracuse, NY Mental Screening Drganet
"Every fifth-grader and ninth grader" is targeted form mental screening in Syracuse, NY.
Read MoreA Response to Dr. Richard Friedman’s Defense of TeenScreen
Dr. Karen Effrem refutes Dr Friedman who claims there is "a silent epidemic of mental illness among teenagers."
Read More4-year old Rebecca Riley,a Casualty of Psychiatric “Treatment”_BostonGlobe_NYT
“To me one of the miracle of children’s brains is that we don’t see more harm from these treatments.”
Read MoreSubstantial Settlement: Children’s Hospital_Predatory Psychiatrist_Sexual Assault
"Fallon was in the psychiatric unit at Children's because her mother was dying of brain cancer and
Fallon, then 13, had just tried to kill herself."
Child Abuse in Russia’s Health & Welfare Institutions_AP
Post-Soviet Russia: Babies in hosptials and orphanages are at especially high risk of abuse by caretakers.
Read MoreFacts Behind Merck’s Mandatory Vaccine Campaign to Help Pay forVioxx
American preteen girls have been designated to pay the price by exposing their bodies to risks of harm.
Read MoreAssaultive Prescribing of Psych Drugs for Children
Australian psychiatrist: "Does anyone else see tardive dysmentia after atypicalantipsychotics?"
U.S. Doctors are prescribing the antidepressant, Effexor (150mg) for infants under age one!
Read MorePsychiatric Drug Mix for Young On Shaky Grounds_ NYTimes
The lead story in The New York Times on Thanksgiving day (below) acknowledged several facts demonstrating that children are the victims of major medical malpractice:
Read MoreGuinea Pig Kids Stir Furor: NYC Allows Racial Studies in Schools_NYPost
The banner headline news story in today's New York Post (below) reports that New York City's "Department of Education has turned thousands of public school students into "guinea pigs" –allowing researchers to use kids in lucrative and racially explosive studies, critics charge."
Read MorePediatrician: DON’T DRUG THEM: /Parents’ obsession with their children’s self-esteem
"The amount of legal stimulants used as medication and produced in our country has grown 2,000 percent in the last 15 years."
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