CCHR Warns of ADHD Drug Risks as WHO Denies Essential Status for Stimulant
Mental health industry watchdog discloses that 3.3 million U.S. children are given psychiatric drugs despite WHO disapproving of these for children younger than 12 and…
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CCHR Warns Children Labeled “ADHD” Subsidize $20 billion Pharmaceutical Industry
With October designated “ADHD Awareness Month,” CCHR exposes the myths, risks, and harm to 3.1 million children prescribed stimulants, while praising efforts that brought a…
ADHD Marketing Brands Children to Hook Them on Psychostimulants
Social media being used to market childhood as a “mental disorder” prompts calls for action to curb the practice that can lead to misdiagnosis and…
Women and Children Seen as Targets for Misdiagnosis in Mental Health Manuals
CCHR says latest psychiatric disorder manuals could lead to millions more women and children being diagnosed mentally ill for normal behavior and subjected to potentially…
There is Money in Dosing Kids
By Martha Rosenberg Op Ed News September 25, 2017 How did the once modest medical specialty of child psychiatry become the aggressive “pediatric psychopharmacology” that…