...paid him $58,169 in 2001, Mr. Grassley found. The Harvard group’s consulting arrangements with drug makers were already controversial because of the researchers’ advocacy of unapproved uses of psychiatric medicines in children. In an e-mailed statement, Dr. Biederman said, “My interests are solely in the advancement of medical treatment through rigorous and objective study,” and he said he took conflict-of...

... that it paid him $58,169 in 2001, Mr. Grassley found. The Harvard group’s consulting arrangements with drug makers were already controversial because of the researchers’ advocacy of unapproved uses of psychiatric medicines in children. In an e-mailed statement, Dr. Biederman said, “My interests are solely in the advancement of medical treatment through rigorous and objective study,” and he said he took conflict-of-...

...letters@nytimes.com New York Times Psychiatric Group Faces Scrutiny Over Drug Industry ..., is demanding that the American Psychiatric Association give an accounting of its..., president-elect of the American Psychiatric Association. But now the profession itself..., is demanding that the American Psychiatric Association, the field's premier professional...Nada L. Stotland, president of the psychiatric association, said the group had studied...

...District. In most cases, “intervention” means referral to psychiatric services and treatment with psychotropic drugs (the ones...that the child may be diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder with no objective medical testing, a ...the child because of the diagnosis and/or psychiatric treatment. • That the parents may lose their parental...to accept the diagnosis and give the child psychiatric treatment. • A full understanding of the dangers and...

... Medical Center in the Bronx. Other experts cite a lack of research backing these drugs for behavioral problems. If patients begin showing behavioral symptoms of dementia, doctors said, they should have complete medical and psychiatric workups first, especially if symptoms develop suddenly. “Just because someone is 95 does not mean one should not do a workup, especially if she’s been healthy,” Dr. Kennedy said. Common causes of the...

..., clinical depression and other mythical psychiatric "diagnoses" are "disorders," "diseases," or "... to their psychiatrists, that they needed psychiatric drugs? If they were told this ... the DSM-IV, of the American Psychiatric Association (Introduction, page xxi, Definition of ..., the APA, unabashedly claims that psychiatric diagnoses are as much diseases as...-scientific literature, making a single psychiatric entity an actual disease. Because ...

... Whitehead 6/9/2008 According to autopsy reports, 4-year-old Rebecca Riley died from an overdose of psychiatric drugs. At age 2, Rebecca was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). At 3, she was ... are voicing the concern that children are being misdiagnosed. Dr. John McClellan, who runs a children’s psychiatric hospital in the state of Washington, suggested that the bipolar diagnosis has become a catch-all for ...

...consulting arrangements with drug makers were already controversial because of the researchers’ advocacy of unapproved uses of psychiatric medicines in children. In an e-mailed statement, Dr. Biederman said, “My interests are solely ... said Dr. E. Fuller Torrey, executive director of the Stanley Medical Research Institute, which finances psychiatric studies. “In the area of child psychiatry in particular, we know much less than we should,...

... Carmichael describes yet another magical psychiatric epidemic. In any report of ... alone may not make persons psychiatric patients-in-perpetuity, drugs which ...DSM Committee of the American Psychiatric Association and "researchers" at the...is to be "bipolar," a psychiatric patient-in-perpetuity. Everything else...of age, not from a psychiatric disease, because there is no...the very real, very toxic psychiatric drugs prescribed for her. Incredibly...

... to withdraw these children from multiple psychiatric medications, they almost certainly go through...their child, withdrawing the child from psychiatric medication can be difficult and ...but then immediately adopts the extremist psychiatric viewpoint, "The bipolar brain is ... being wrongly diagnosed by conventional psychiatric standards. We have no evidence ... companies. Further administration of multiple psychiatric drugs at once complicates the ...