Jump in anti-psychotics for kids troubling
It's about MONEY.
It's about drug companies being able to do what they want now that everyone on the repiglikkkan FDA is tied to the drug industry.
This kind of thing is a consequence of an unelected weasel like Grover Norquist setting policy in Washington.
It is the long term result of DEREGULATION, a virus introduced by repiglikkkans and spread by both parties.
The people running America do not value the life of your child or your life. They do not value families. Or babies. Or education. That is empty rhetoric.
They do not value New Orleans or New York City or democracy or fair elections or peace.
They value only their own wealth prestige and power.
And if they have to drug you and your kids to keep it, so be it
Soaring numbers of American children are being prescribed anti-psychotic drugs -- in many cases for attention deficit disorder or other behavioral problems for which these medications have not been proven to work, a study found.
The annual number of children prescribed anti-psychotic drugs jumped fivefold between 1995 and 2002, to an estimated 2.5 million, the study said. That is an increase from 8.6 out of every 1,000 children in the mid-1990s to nearly 40 out of 1,000.
But more than half of the prescriptions were for attention deficit and other non-psychotic conditions, the researchers said.
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It's about drug companies being able to do what they want now that everyone on the repiglikkkan FDA is tied to the drug industry.
This kind of thing is a consequence of an unelected weasel like Grover Norquist setting policy in Washington.
It is the long term result of DEREGULATION, a virus introduced by repiglikkkans and spread by both parties.
The people running America do not value the life of your child or your life. They do not value families. Or babies. Or education. That is empty rhetoric.
They do not value New Orleans or New York City or democracy or fair elections or peace.
They value only their own wealth prestige and power.
And if they have to drug you and your kids to keep it, so be it
Soaring numbers of American children are being prescribed anti-psychotic drugs -- in many cases for attention deficit disorder or other behavioral problems for which these medications have not been proven to work, a study found.
The annual number of children prescribed anti-psychotic drugs jumped fivefold between 1995 and 2002, to an estimated 2.5 million, the study said. That is an increase from 8.6 out of every 1,000 children in the mid-1990s to nearly 40 out of 1,000.
But more than half of the prescriptions were for attention deficit and other non-psychotic conditions, the researchers said.
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