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Psychologist Recommends New Parents’ Guidebook, “Know More About Drugs”
Parents and caregivers are not being informed of the FDA’s documented risks of the psychotropic (mind-altering) drugs and painkillers (opioids) being prescribed to children.
As a licensed clinical psychologist and forensic expert in medication outcome studies, I am often asked to testify about the short and long-term use of psychiatric medications. Unfortunately, parents have not been fully informed about the potential dangers of these powerful mind-altering drugs. As I see more and more cases of children being given psychiatric medications, I see more and more severe adverse effects happening with these medications. Suicidal and violent thoughts, dangerous and violent behaviors, increasing dependence and anxiety, agitation, and disorganization have all become too common in many of these cases.
Netflix’s “The Pharmacist,” Dan Schneider – Why I Support the Know More About Drugs Campaign
The life you save could be yours, your children's, or your grandchildren's.
My name is Dan Schneider, and I am “The Pharmacist” featured in the Netflix docuseries, viewed over 100 million times worldwide. Netflix summarizes it as follows, “After his son's tragic death, a Louisiana pharmacist goes to extremes to expose the rampant corruption behind the opioid addiction crisis.”
Registered Nurse Urges Parents to Learn More About the Drugs Prescribed to Their Children
Why I believe every parent should utilize the FDA’s MedGuides in order to prevent serious adverse side effects.
I was not surprised when I learned a young teen I have been working with attempted to hang herself with a sweater in the school’s bathroom stall. Nor was I shocked when I learned this same 8th grader attempted to hang herself in her bedroom the year before. What I wonder now is how and when did these heartbreaking, gut wrenching events cease to stun me?
Psychologist Wants Parents to ‘Know More About Drugs’
Why I support the Alliance to empower parents with documented risks of prescribed psychotropic drugs on children
The reason I agreed to write this blog is because knowledge about KMAD is so greatly needed, as it literally saves the lives of children, teens and their families. I have referred patients and family members to this important website and organization, whereby, the information about psychotropic (mind-altering) drugs has led to greater understanding about these medications. It is that foundation, understanding the pros and cons to taking, or not taking, a psychotropic mind-altering drug, that allows for true informed consent.
Mother to Mother—In the Wake of Prescription Drug Tragedy We Speak Out to Warn Others
Empowering Parents with Facts about Psychotropic Drug Dependence and Documented Risks
My name is Mathy Milling Downing. I am a teacher, counselor, international child advocate, and a grieving mother who has experienced first-hand the tragedy of losing a child to a prescription drug. For the past 16 years, I have dedicated my time and effort to speaking out on national media and in many public forums, to help forewarn parents of the adverse side effects that can be caused by prescription psychotropic (mind-altering) drugs.
