Pschiatric Drugs and Children

Analysis of the use of Psychiatric Drugs for Children, their biological effects and the effects of the drug on learning and socializing.


Ritalin and the Growth Hormone

In 1977, a Norwegian team of researchers led by D. Daarskog demonstrated abnormal growth hormone responses to clinical doses of Dexedrine and Ritalin: The findings indicate an acute and probable long-term effect of dextroamhetamine and methylphenidate on the homeostasis of growth hormone. The possible long-term effects of these drugs on the growth of children indicates the need for caution in the widespread use of these agents. *********************************** In […]


How Ritalin Really Works

If a parent forced a child to take alcohol, a depressant, in the mistaken belief that he was curing a chemical imbalance  in the child’s brain, we would not hesitate to have the child removed from home  Yet millions of children are forced to take mind-altering drugs in the equally mistaken belief that depression and other mental illnesses are biologically caused, for which there is not a shred […]


Dr Peter Breggin on Psychiatric Drugs for Children

Time to Call a Halt to Psychiatrically Diagnosing and Drugging Children The latest scientific literature indicates that boys averaging age 7-9 given a diagnosis of mild hyperactivity in the 1970s and treated with Ritalin (methylphenidate) have, as a group, come to a tragic outcome. Compared to a control group of normal children from the same time period, they have much higher rates of early death, atrophy of the […]


Generation RX -Interview with Kevin Miller

Interview with Kevin Miller, producer of the Film, Generation RX Click here for Anti-Depressant-Violence expose  with Dr. David Healy, Professor of Psychaitry at Bangor University, U.K., Dr. Peter Breggin, and Dr. Irving Kirsh, Harvard University Medical Researcher. Anti-Depressant Violence is connected to  mass shootings at Columbine, Virginia Tech, Colorado, and Tucson, a most startling revelation.