Community | September 02, 2009 | 4 comments

FRONTLINE: the medicated child | PBS

source: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/medicatedchild/

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In recent years, there's been a dramatic increase in the number of children being diagnosed with serious psychiatric disorders and prescribed medications that are just beginning to be tested in children. The drugs can cause serious side effects, and virtually nothing is known about their long-term impact. "It's really to some extent an experiment, trying medications in these children of this age," child psychiatrist Dr. Patrick Bacon tells FRONTLINE. "It's a gamble. And I tell parents there's no way to know what's going to work."
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4 comments // FRONTLINE: the medicated child | PBS

  • peoplesmovement
  • samthesixth
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      samthesixth  

    • I taught at a university in Washington DC. There I had student who would take their younger brother's ritalin, crush it up, and snort it.

      It's just like cheerios--get them doing it young and they'll stick with it for life!

    • 2 years ago
  • jh64487
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      jh64487  

    • definitely, ritalin and aderal (sp?) will fuck a kid up.

      ...badly.

      the idea may have been good, but it was twisted to make it profitable and it's such an easy condition to misdiagnose. does your kid really have issues or are you just being led to believe a little kid isn't right so that pharma can make a buck. everyone wins but the kids.

      love your kids, that works

    • 2 years ago
  • peoplesmovement
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      peoplesmovement  
    • jh64487:

      I agree love is the cure to much of the distress caused by made-made conditions in the world today.
      Which leads me to ponder is someone trying to create a solution that'll make individuals passive so as they won't resist such man-made situations causing stress nowadays and possibly against what's to come?
      To have while others have not is motivated by profit, which breeds greed. Is this cycle ever to end?
      I ponder.

    • 2 years ago
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