Behavior Medication

See also:

- An organization that works against the labeling and medicating of children. Provides information regarding the subjective labels and the risks associated with drug treatment.

Frontline: Medicating Kids :

- A one hour documentary which examines the dramatic increase in the prescription of behavior-modifying drugs for children.

NYTimes.com - Schools' Backing of Behavior Drugs Comes Under Fire :

- State legislatures are moving to prevent schools from recommending or requiring that parents put their children on behavior medication. This comes at a time when many drug manufacturers are encouraging parents to consider their products as possible solutions to school problems. [Requires free NYTimes.com registration to view.] (August 19, 2001)

Salon News: P is for Prozac :

- How a government corrupted by special interests is spawning a generation of medicated preschoolers. (March 21, 2000)

Psychiatric News: Charges of Overdiagnsis, Overmedication of ADHD Are Exaggerated, Study Shows :

- Summarizes an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). (May 1, 1998)