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Connecticut Fails to Meet Deadline on Sandy Hook Mental Health Gun Bill

Written on May 19, 2014.

The problem with instituting sweeping, costly and invasive mental health legislation is that there always are unintended consequences. The State of Connecticut, when passing Public Act 13-3, apparently didn’t consider that there are two sides...

ABLECHILD URGES ADDING OVERMEDICATION OF CHILDREN IN STATE CARE TO GOVERNOR’S 2012 AGENDA

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Written on January 3, 2012.

Sheila Matthews National Vice President www.ablechild.org (203) 966-8419 WESTPORT, CONN., JANUARY 3, 2012 – Ablechild co-founder Sheila Matthews will brief Connecticut State Healthcare Advocate Victoria Veltri today on the organization’s research into...

Keep your ADHD Label, Teach Writing.

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Written on September 5, 2011.

Over the years, Ablechild.org has gone directly to the pipeline of ADHD, and has informed parents of the misleading information they are receiving through the public school system and the media relating to the label ADHD and the dangerous mind altering...

Billion Dollar Drug Company Law Firm Restructures Connecticut Welfare System

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Written on March 10, 2011.

Bob Fiddaman and Sheila Matthews sheila@ablechild.org (203) 594-1700 For some time now, Sheila Matthews has been suspicious about her home state of Connecticut’s treatment of its most vulnerable children. As a mother of two children and co-founder...

Federal Court Decision May Place More Children At Risk

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Written on September 28, 2010.

Sheila Matthews National Vice President www.ablechild.org sheila@ablechild.org (203) 966-8419 Last month, in Juan F., et al. v. M. Jodi Rell, et al., the United States District Court in the District of Connecticut held that Connecticut’s Department...

ABLECHILD SAYS THAT MISDIAGNOSIS OF A MILLION CHILDREN UNJUSTIFIABLE AND URGES PARENTS TO GAIN RISKS OF TESTING, LABELING AND DRUGGING

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Written on August 19, 2010.

Diane Nahabedian dianenahabedian@yahoo.com (617) 943-3732 Over 4.5 million children nationwide have been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or ADHD according to a study says an article “Youngest in Class get ADHD Label” published...

More Toddlers, Young Children Given Antipsychotics

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Written on January 4, 2010.

Researchers question the ‘worrisome’ trend By Jennifer Thomas, HealthDay Reporter Source: BusinessWeek MONDAY, Jan. 4 (HealthDay News) — The rate of children aged 2 to 5 who are given antipsychotic medications has doubled in recent...

Drug Makers Are Advocacy Group’s Biggest Donors

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Written on October 21, 2009.

By Gardiner Harris Source: New York Times WASHINGTON — A majority of the donations made to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, one of the nation’s most influential disease advocacy groups, have come from drug makers in recent years, according...

Generation of Kids Hooked on Psych Drugs

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Written on June 23, 2009.

By Evelyn Pringle Source: http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/generation-of-kids-hooked-on-psych-drugs-0449.html Campbell Brown anchors a daily prime-time news program on CNN. On June 17, 2009, in a segment of the program called the “Great Debate,”...

ADHD Drugs Linked to Sudden Death

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Written on June 15, 2009.

Some Parents Believe New Study Reinforces Link Between Stimulants, Cardiac Death Source: Article by Dan Childs and Todd Neale, ABC News For Ann Hohmann, Oct. 21, 2004, began just about like any other day. On that morning, the 54-year-old mother of...

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Connecticut Fails to Meet Deadline on Sandy Hook Mental Health Gun Bill

ABLECHILD URGES ADDING OVERMEDICATION OF CHILDREN IN STATE CARE TO GOVERNOR’S 2012 AGENDA

Keep your ADHD Label, Teach Writing.

Billion Dollar Drug Company Law Firm Restructures Connecticut Welfare System

Federal Court Decision May Place More Children At Risk

ABLECHILD SAYS THAT MISDIAGNOSIS OF A MILLION CHILDREN UNJUSTIFIABLE AND URGES PARENTS TO GAIN RISKS OF TESTING, LABELING AND DRUGGING

More Toddlers, Young Children Given Antipsychotics

Drug Makers Are Advocacy Group’s Biggest Donors

Generation of Kids Hooked on Psych Drugs

ADHD Drugs Linked to Sudden Death

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