Free Republic

Use-of-force expert says DC Metro Police officer committed felony in attack on Rosanne Boyland A District of Columbia police officer used a large wooden stick to strike the body and head of protester Rosanne Boyland three times as she lay motionless on the ground on Jan. 6, 2021, according to bodycam footage from several officers obtained by The Epoch Times. Use-of-force expert Stanley Kephart, upon reviewing the previously unreleased footage, concluded that the three full-force blows by D.C. police officer Lila Morris constituted a felony assault with intent to cause great bodily harm. Kephart called Morris’s use of force “indefensible”...

Obama's Tired of Being in the White House Tue, Feb 3, 2009 He’s only been there for two weeks, but already Barack Obama is “tired of being in the White House.”Probably the first President in history to utter those words. WASHINGTON (AP) - On the rockiest day of his young administration, President Barack Obama did what surely made him happy for a while. He left. With little notice, the president and first lady Michelle Obama bolted the gated compound of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. in their tank of a limousine on Tuesday. They ended up at a Washington public school, greeted...

The U.S. House overwhelmingly passed a bill Wednesday barring schools from requiring hyperactive children to use drug treatments as a condition for attending classes.

The prevalence of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) and its associated attention, hyperactivity and concentration problems among American children has been steadily on the rise in recent years. The US Centers for Disease Control now estimates that eight percent of children suffer from ADHD, and more than half of them are being treated with drugs like Ritalin. But according to a study conducted by Israeli researchers, if your child is showing symptoms associated with ADHD, it's possible that they're suffering from sleep apnea or other sleep disorders. The researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology's Sleep Medicine Center conclude that ADHD-diagnosed children...

Spending on drugs to treat children and adolescents for behavior-related disorders rose 77 percent from 2000 to the end of 2003, according to a study of prescription purchases by Medco Health Solutions, a pharmacy benefits management company. The increase, to $536 a patient a year on average, reflected rising prices as growing numbers of young people used newer and more expensive drugs, said Robert S. Epstein, chief medical officer of Medco. The report is to be released today. Sales of the behavioral drugs are growing faster than any other type of medicine taken by children, pulling ahead of the previous...

(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Children who struggle with sleep disorders often appear sleepy and inattentive during the daytime. A new study shows symptoms in 5-year-olds are suggestive of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. Doctors say there is an increasing understanding of obstructive sleep-disordered breathing. It’s estimated to affect 2 percent to 3 percent of children. Researchers from the Boston University School of Medicine led the study of 3,019 5-year-old children. Parents completed a survey about their child’s sleep patterns, snoring and the presence of daytime sleepiness and behavior problems. Hyperactivity was reported 19 percent of the time, while inattention came in second at...

Huh? What? Oh, excuse me. What were we discussing? Crickets? Top Ramen? It's all a blur. Gimme the drugs. Now. See how easy that was? I have now been marked as a man afflicted by the newest -- and for my money the very best -- disorder ever. Well, at least ever since the pharmaceutical profession realized that you can peddle a whole slew of drugs if you just come up with a popular enough -- if questionable -- syndrome and advertise it on television. I speak, of course, of the scourge of Adult Attention Deficit Disorder, which the drug...

Common food additives cause "substantial effects" on some young children's behaviour, increasing temper tantrums and hyperactivity, according to a UK study. However, the results have been deemed inconclusive by other scientists and the paper has been rejected by peer-reviewed journals. The study involved giving children fruit juice laced with low levels of common food and drink additives. It was commissioned by the UK government in 1999 and completed in 2001. The results have now been discovered in the library of the Food Standards Agency by a campaign group called the Food Commission. Researchers at the David Hide Asthma and Allergy...