Members of Florida’s Senate Children, Families and Elder Affairs Committee from both parties said the state needed to toughen laws and rules for prescribing psychiatric drugs to children in the wake of the hanging death of Gabriel Myers and an ongoing examination by a Department of Children and Families task force.
Tens of thousands of vulnerable dementia patients are being prescribed ‘chemical cosh’ drugs in hospital wards in a ‘scandalous abuse’ of the elderly, ten leading health organisations have said in a letter to The Daily Telegraph.
Internet Addiction Disorder has yet to be officially recognized, but specific symptoms have been outlined, and it’s a subject matter that continues to undergo evaluation. One doctor says Internet addiction could easily become one of the most chronic childhood diseases in America.
Researchers reported on Monday that antidepressants, known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors or SSRIs, which affect a message-carrying brain chemical called serotonin, may raise the risk of pre-term delivery and affect a baby’s health at birth. In fact, women who took antidepressants during pregnancy in the study had twice the risk of pre-term delivery as other women.
University of Texas Health Science Center doctoral student Joshua Gowin describes the effects of Adderall and Ritalin to the drugs’ primary receivers. The act of taking these habit-forming drugs probably dispels any attempt at being smart anyway. It turns out that Adderall users are those who need to cram in a few extra hours of study time because they did not plan ahead to begin with.
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