PRINTABLE PAGE ‘Cadillac’ Plan New Foster Kid Approach Program aims at drug treatment By Carol Marbin MillerOriginally published in The Miami Herald, June 2, 2001 TALLAHASSEE — A panel of doctors, social workers and advocates is developing what they call…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Advocates Criticize Medicating Foster Kids Treatment raises claims of misuse By Carol Marbin MillerOriginally published in The Miami Herald, April 12, 2001 Hard-to-manage children in Florida’s troubled foster care system routinely are being prescribed powerful psychiatric drugs as…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Little Known About Safety of Long-Term Ritalin Use, Study Warns By Helen BranswellOriginally published by The Canadian Press, November 27, 2001 TORONTO (CP) — Hyperactive children across North America are regularly put on Ritalin, a drug that appears…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Connecticut Ritalin Law Targets Schools, Not Docs By Karen PallaritoOriginally published by Reuters Health, July 25, 2001 NEW YORK (Reuters Health) — To reduce the inappropriate medication of children with behavioral problems, a new Connecticut law takes aim…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Ritalin Case Puts Parents, Courts on Collision Course By John CaherOriginally published in the New York Law Journal, August 17, 2000 ALBANY — An educational neglect case in Albany involving a 7-year-old boy whose parents were hauled into…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Stimulant Use by Children on Rise By Sally FinlayOriginally published in The Age, August 21, 2000 Parental pressure and inadequate health services have led to an increase in the prescription of potentially dangerous psychotropic drugs for children under…
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PRINTABLE PAGE City Agency’s Psych Drugs Imperil Foster Kids By Douglas MonteroOriginally published in the New York Post (News Columnists “Opinion”), April 16, 2001 ERLINE KIDD doesn’t want her 8-year-old daughter to end up like a boy named Cecil Reed—a…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Many Doctors Prescribe Sleep Medications to Kids by Alison McCookOriginally published by Reuters Health, May 6, 2003 NEW YORK — A survey of U.S. pediatricians shows that the majority has recommended over-the-counter or prescription sleep aids to some…
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