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Push the Drugs or Go to Jail
YourHealthDaily reports today with an article titled: "Dilemma For Parents Who Are Told To Keep Child On Ritalin."
The article begins by stating that "like thousands of children, 7-year-old Kyle Carroll takes Ritalin for a diagnosis of attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD."
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Doctors of Chiropractic -- Scope Expansion into Drugs
Letter to the Governor
Governor Frank Keating, of the State of Oklahoma
Dear Governor Keating:
This morning I became aware of the proposal to amend the Chiropractic scope of practice to include the use of pharmaceuticals in the State of Oklahoma. This, if passed would be a mistak...
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Saying No To Drugs
April 3 - MSNBC reports on a study stating, "Pediatricians urge no drugs for respiratory infections."
The report suggests that "pediatricians are often pressured to prescribe unnecessary antibiotics for respiratory infections" and that those pressures often come from parents and from schools ch...
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Give drugs to healthy people and what do you get?
ABCNEWS.com reports that "last year, an estimated 180 million Americans or two thirds of the population, took prescription drugs that may have potential harmful side effects."
The question asked in the report relates to the prescribing of drugs and what precautions, if any, are medical doctors ...
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Mood-Altering Drugs and Our Children
This article is from a February 27, 2000 Q & A session titled:
Prozac: Panacea or Pandora?
Article is available at: WorldNetDaily
The article discusses the uses of Ritalin and Prozac in children, and points out similarities of psychotropic drug use in recent shooting tragedies.
Accor...
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From Diabetes to Death - FDA Takes Diabetes Drug Off Market
Several sources are reporting today that the Diabetes drug Rezulin has been pulled from the market since it has been linked to at least 61 deaths.
The FDA requested on Tuesday that the drug be removed due to its risks of use and reported deaths associated with its use. At least 61 individuals h...
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More Drugs For Tots - Not!
Many news sources are reporting today that in the US, federal government officials have planned to inform parents and teachers about the risks of using psychiatric drugs such as Ritalin and Prozac on preschoolers. (Notice the trend here?)
Also according to reports, the Food and Drug Administrat...
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Psychiatric Drugs And Our Children
The week's March 6th issue of U.S. News & World Report features a report on the use of psychiatric drugs in children. The article is available on this weeks news stands or by visiting http://www.usnews.com (save the pages for offline viewing as they will probably be removed next week.)
Although...
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Drugging Our Children
It's all over today's news; toddlers are being given medications not approved for their use.
Planet Chiropractic has been reporting about the increase in the use of psychiatric drugs among children for some time now, the news we report today is quite disturbing and should concern everyone.
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Drug Sales Up Worldwide Thanks to U.S.
For our Canadian and international readers, this just gives you one more reason to point fingers at those of us in the U.S.
It was reported today that retail pharmaceutical sales were up 10% worldwide for 1999, driven by a rise in drug use in the United States.
To top that off, the fastest...
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Hot Links For Drug & Vaccine Info
The following headlines came across the wire recently. We have included them here so that you could easily locate and use them in educating others.
Hamsters developing severe destructive arthritis, is the Lyme vaccine safe? What the vaccine maker has to say.
Yahoo's Health News: Lyme v...
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More Rezulin Drug Deaths Despite Warning
he Los Angeles Times reports that Deaths are climbing since the FDA received a warning on the dangers of Rezulin.
Although FDA officials were publicly warned that "every patient taking the diabetes pill Rezulin was at risk of sudden liver failure and no reliable way existed to protect them" b...
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Prescription Drug Advertising Creating Problems
Prescription drug spots on television are becoming as common as those for Budweiser and Dodge.
The pharmaceutical industry has spent billions on print and media ads in the last year, and are expected to spend more because "drug makers want consumers to walk into the doctor's office and ask for a ...
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Survey: Consumers dislike drug ads
Side-effect warnings reduce effectiveness of drug ads, study finds. A Nando Times news article states, "You've seen the TV commercials for drugs that promise to relieve allergies, banish migraines, grow back your hair, prevent heart attacks, relieve herpes. Then comes the stern voice droning on ...
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Are We Over-Drugging American Boys?
According to a recent article on ABCNEWS.com, In 1998, nearly 5 million people in the United States - most of them children - were prescribed Ritalin. Production of Ritalin, the chief drug used to treat Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), is up 700% since 1990 and boys are diagnosed with ADD four ...
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