So, apparently Mike Huckabee wants to fix the constitution… so it lives up to his God’s standards. Right…
[From The Raw Story | Huckabee: Amend Constitution to be in 'God's standards']
… O_o
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Prescription drug abuse is up, presumably since, “Everyone is stressed and everyone is self-medicating… Generation Rx is very insidious; kids are looking to medication for a sense of wellness and not to treat an ailment.”
[From The Fallbrook Village News :: Generation Rx: a new war against drugs]
Intriguing. But I could never do it 
It all made perfect sense. Fix the words and you fix the thoughts. I’m not a negative person, but I wanted to cut out the commiserating most of us use for 30-40% of all conversation…
[From Real Mind Control: The 21-Day No-Complaint Experiment | The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss]
After 10 Years of Blogs, the Future’s Brighter Than Ever:
In the 10 years since the first site known as a “weblog” went online, the blog has matured from a geek niche to the internet’s dominant publishing paradigm.
Blogs have come a long way since Dec. 17, 1997, when Jorn Barger coined the term “weblog” to describe the list of links on his Robot Wisdom website that “logged” his internet wanderings. In the decade hence, blogs have come to dominate the net, from 100 million personal diaries to the breaking news sections of the august The New York Times.
“It’s the easiest, cheapest, fastest publishing tool ever invented,” said Jeff Jarvis, news blogger, media pundit and director of the interactive journalism program at the City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism. “The people have a voice they didn’t have before.”
Here’s a quick PubMed update before I take my computer back apart… (pictures to come too)…
Anxiety states: a review of conceptual and treatment issues.
Advances in alternative pharmacotherapy of ADHD.
“The larger effect sizes we calculated for stimulant ADHD medications, compared to nonstimulants or the novel stimulant modafinil, leads us to conclude that amphetamine and methylphenidate based stimulant medications are more effective in treating symptoms of ADHD,” said Stephen V. Faraone, Ph.D., lead researcher and director of child and adolescent psychiatry at SUNY Upstate Medical University. “Our results should help physicians who have had to rely on qualitative comparisons among published trials, along with their own clinical experience, to draw conclusions about an ADHD medication’s relative efficacy because of largely absent direct head-to-head drug comparisons.”
FYI
(Via Yahoo! Finance.)
Psychiatric Drug Use by Children Reviewed By The FDA:
“There is no question we need to do long-term clinicaltrials with kids and psychiatric drugs.” He said the companies, the FDA, and the NIMH should pool their money and establish those trials.
Interesting article on the current state of psychotropic medications used to treat AD/HD, Depression, and Anxiety and their efficacy with and effects on children.
(Via Psychiatric Times.)
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