Parents Pressured to Put Kids on Ritalin

N.Y. court orders use of medicine

Some public schools are accusing parents of child abuse when they balk at giving their kids drugs such as Ritalin, and as judges begin to agree, some parents are medicating their children for fear of having them hauled away.
more at http://www.usatoday.com/life/health/child/lhchi193.htm

Psychotropic Drugs to be Administered to Defendants

Today, August 20th, 2002, the Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics (CCLE) filed an amicus curiae brief before the U.S. Supreme Court in support of a St. Louis dentist. Dr. Charles Sell is appealing to the Court to stay a lower court's decision to have him forcibly drugged in order to stand trial. In May, the Eighth Circuit Federal Court of Appeals ruled that Dr. Sell could be injected with psychotropic drugs in order to make him "mentally competent" to stand trial for insurance fraud. More at http://www.alchemind.org/News/sell_ussc1.htm

School Lunches Making 'Em Sick

The US spends over $7 billion on foods for school lunches that are sickening children. More at http://mercola.com/2002/aug/17/school_lunches.htm