The American Epidemic: Solutions for Over-Medicating Our Youth

by Frank J. Granett

Overview

The American Epidemic: Solutions for Over Medicating Our Youth provides new knowledge for parents, educators, all healthcare professionals, and public health policymakers to determine the cause of behavioral symptoms prior to psychoactive drug therapy in children. The Action Plan for Childhood Behavioral Conditions is a step-by-step solution to rule out nutritional, physiological, and environmental risk factors. The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) Child Foster Care drug audit report uncovered widespread abuses of overmedicating our children with ADHD stimulant and multiple psychoactive medications. The GAO report proves that the assessment and treatment of young children with behavioral symptoms requires immediate reform.


The Action Plan for Childhood Behavioral Conditions will help you:


- Understand the critical role parents play in child behavioral health
- Unite parents, educators, and healthcare professionals to determine the cause of behavioral symptoms
- Learn how to help your child develop a focused and healthy mind
- Eliminate nutritional, physiological, and environmental risk factors that mimic childhood behavioral symptoms

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781630470524
Publisher:	Morgan James Publishing
Publication date:	07/08/2014
Series:	Morgan James Publishing Series
Pages:	190
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Frank J. Granett, R.ph., is a board-certified pharmacist with more than twenty-five years of consultative experience, specializing in attention deficit disorder and psychiatric drug therapy. He is the clinical director of pharmacy operations at BCOM Psychiatric Hospital in Warren, Michigan, and the founder of the non-profit organization Coalition Against Overmedicating Our Youth. A father of six children, Frank hosts the Over Medicating Our Youth TV series, dedicated to helping parents help their children determine the cause of behavioral conditions by ruling out nutritional, physiological, and environmental risk factors prior to premature drug therapy. He has been a featured guest on more than thirty-five syndicated radio programs across the United States.

Read an Excerpt

The family unit environment should be the first of many assessments, if a child exhibits chronic behavioral symptoms. Before a loved one’s psychological behavioral condition reaches the crisis state involving hospitalization, parents, educators, and physicians should realize the importance of the family unit and how it relates to childhood behavioral development. Many risk factors effect behavioral development, however the family unit environment functions as a primary source of stability for child behavior.

The family unit is unique. The diversity in family units across America may offer insight into the behavioral challenges many children face during their developmental growth. These challenges have escalated during the past fifteen years. Parents are faced with more adversity and stress in today’s America. Economic decline of the average American family is pervasive. Dual-parent income is now mandatory to keep family units financially solvent. Parents’ time spent with their children on a daily basis is on a significant decline. Negative peer pressure affecting the family unit is pervasive.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1 The Family Unit

Chapter 2 Evolution of the Behavioral Health Crisis in America

Chapter 3 ADHD and Autism Risk Factors

Chapter 4 Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: America’s Epidemic

Chapter 5 Plan of Correction: Pharmacists and Physicians Lead to Protect Children

Chapter 6 Solutions for America’s Epidemic

Chapter 7 Suicide Prevention

Chapter 8 How to Develop a Healthy Mind

Chapter 9 Psychological and Alternative Bio-assessments

Chapter 10 Leaders Must Lead

Chapter 11 A New Vision

Glossary

References

Editorial Reviews

I was almost despondent to believe that the kids under the age of one, babies under age one, were receiving this kind of medication.”

—United States Senator Thomas Carper, lead requestor of the 2011 GAO Child Foster Care report, and Chairman of the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee.

“Eye-Opening. A change in our attitudes, thinking and our actions is called for. Granett has taken a bold step in helping parents, teachers, politicians and medical professionals educate themselves to help our children.”

—Don Rush, columnist and assistant publisher, The Clarkston News.

“They subverted science and induced others to betray people they were supposed to be taking care of. To me that is reprehensible.”

—Allen Jones, former investigator of Pennsylvania’s Office of Inspector General, Bureau of Special Investigations, and plaintiff vs. Johnson & Johnson.

“The American Epidemic: Solutions for Over-medicating Our Youth is an informative read, advocating a positive action plan for the American educational system in children with behavioral conditions.”

—Bart Clark, Independence Township Superintendent

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