Showing posts with label psychiatric medicine and children. Show all posts
Showing posts with label psychiatric medicine and children. Show all posts
US Kids Represent Psychiatric Drug Goldmine

Parents can now have their kids declared disabled due to mental illness and receive Social Security disability payments and free medical care, and schools can get more money for disabled kids. The bounty for the prescribing doctors and pharmacies is enormous and the CEOs of the drug companies are laughing all the way into early retirement.'
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It's Time to Protect Our Children From Big Pharma - The REAL Drug War...

More Toddlers, Young Children Given Antipsychotics
Researchers question the 'worrisome' trend.
'The rate of children aged 2 to 5 who are given antipsychotic medications has doubled in recent years, a new study has found.
Yet little is known about either the effectiveness or the safety of these powerful psychiatric medications in children this age, said researchers from Columbia University and Rutgers University, who looked at data on more than 1 million children with private health insurance.
"It is a worrisome trend, partly because very little is known about the short-term, let alone the long-term, safety of these drugs in this age group," said study author Dr. Mark Olfson, a professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University in New York City.'
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