pyschopharmicology Archive
In the debate about children and psychotropic medications, everyone is looking for better outcomes. Foster youth are seeking to assert more control over their lives and their health care, and they want people to understand that medications alone cannot fix …
Written by David Rettew, University of Vermont There’s been a lot of attention in the media about the number of children taking antipsychotic and other psychiatric medications. The assumption behind most of these stories is that these drugs are being …
According to a study, released by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 7.5% of children ages 6-17 were prescribed medication for “emotional or behavioral difficulties” during a 6 month period from 2010-2011. More than half the parents of these …
The love/hate relationship of mental health professionals is centered mainly around psychopharmacology. While advances in the field have meant that mental health drugs are more suited and safer than ever before, it is by no means perfect. On a day …
Big Pharm has had a good year. Not that you can measure happiness on a scale from 1-10, but if you could, Big Pharm would say they are 84 billion…dollars that is. That’s the profit that the drug companies tallied …
Recently, I found out that Tramadol (also know as Tramadol hydrochloride and Ultram in the USA) is now considered a controlled substance in New York State. Tramadol is “a centrally acting synthetic analgesic used to treat moderate to moderately severe pain” for conditions such as …
By Georgianna Reilly, LMSW SJS Staff Writer A recent Swedish study suggests that affordable and easy access to ADHD medications can decrease not only recidivism of individuals diagnosed with ADHD or similar conditions, but also potentially crime rates. Based on symptoms …
It continues to amaze me that western science ignores the potential of meditation and yogic disciplines as alternatives to using techniques such as psychotropic medication and procedures like deep brain stimulus. I am watching a video in class where a …
