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• Health: Child Health: Information and Advice: Mental Health  (8)
• Health: Medicine: Pharmacology: Psychopharmacology  (24)
• Health: Mental Health: Disorders: Child and Adolescent: ADD and ADHD  (64)
• Health: Mental Health: Disorders: Neurodevelopmental: ADD and ADHD  (144)
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• Society: Issues: Health: Mental Health: Anti-Psychiatry Organizations: ADD and ADHD  (2)
• Society: Issues: Health: Mental Health: Medication: Ritalin  (17)

AbleChild An organization that works against the labeling and medicating of children. Provides information regarding the subjective labels and the risks associated with drug treatment. http://www.ablechild.org/

Frontline: Medicating Kids A one hour documentary which examines the dramatic increase in the prescription of behavior-modifying drugs for children. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/medicating/

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) http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/19/health/children/19RITA.html

Salon News: P is for Prozac How a government corrupted by special interests is spawning a generation of medicated preschoolers. (March 21, 2000) http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/03/21/prozac