Over Medicating Our Youth

About the Book

Over Medicating Our Youth provides knowledge for parents, educators, and physicians to consider the etiology or causation of behavioral conditions before medicating children with psychiatric and Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) symptoms. The prescribing of stimulant and psychiatric medications prior to ruling out nutritional, physiological, and environmental causation for behavioral conditions requires reform. This book provides guidance for parents, educators, and physicians to utilize effective alternative treatments plans as well as assessments prior to prematurely medicating children. The recent United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) Child Foster Care report uncovered the injustice of overmedicating children with ADD stimulant and psychiatric drugs. The GAO report proves that a positive change in the treatment of childhood behavioral conditions should involve a more comprehensive assessment as to the causation of behavioral symptoms.

About the Author

Frank J. Granett is a board-certified pharmacist with twenty-five years of consultative experience, specializing in attention deficit disorder and psychiatric drug therapy. He is the clinical director of pharmacy operations at a psychiatric hospital. As a father of six children, Frank is passionate about recommending the Action Plan for Childhood Behavioral Conditions. He is the founder of the Coalition Against Overmedicating Our Youth whose mission is to provide medication counseling to school districts and foster care children by implementating the Action Plan for Childhood Behavioral Conditions including mental illness. The inspiration for this project is through the vision of Mary Tocco as well as the life of Jeremiah.