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Chemical Lobotomies: A Growing Number of Children are Being Prescribed Antipsychotics for ADHD
Pills have become the solution to every problem. A new trend in psychiatry is the prescription of strong and toxic antipsychotic drugs to children with ADHD as well as other behavioral disorders. The “off label” use of these drugs can come with a host of dangerous side effects-effects much worse than the behavioral problems they are supposedly treating.
The type of antipsychotics being administered is considered “atypical” or second-generation meaning that they have only been on the market since the 1990s. Usually they are prescribed to adults with serious mental disorders such as bipolar disorder or schizophrenia. However, a study has shown that the amount of children being prescribed antipsychotics has increased seven-fold in an eight year period.
Furthermore, adolescents are also showing increasing rates of antipsychotic prescriptions. Overall, while according to the study, every age bracket is being prescribed more antipsychotics today than in previous years, children and adolescents show higher rates of prescriptions than adults. Many of the prescriptions written to these children weren’t even written by psychiatrists, but general practitioners who haven’t been trained specifically in behavioral, cognitive, or mental disorders …. http://www.naturalnews.com
2013-04-02 10:17:24
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