Community | October 04, 2010 | 6 comments

More and more preschoolers on harmful Psychiatric Medications

source: http://www.empowher.com/mental-health/content/preschoolers-psychiatric-medications-your-chil...

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The New York Times made a video recently, documenting the tens of thousands of children placed on anti-psychotic medications every year by their pediatricians. Frustrated parents, faced with out of control babies, are placing them on the heaviest of medications as early as 18 months.

One child profiled was Kyle Warren.

Kyle was placed on many of these medications at a year-and-a-half. He was having temper tantrums by the time he was 6 months old and had self-harmed enough to require hospitalization. His doctor recommended medication and his desperate mother agreed. The amount of medication was overwhelming – Prozac, multiple pills to help with sleep, more pills for ADHD and Rispirdal – usually given to adult schizophrenics. By the time he was three, he weighed nearly 50 pounds and had been turned into drooling, blank stared preschooler with a documented medical diagnosis of bipolar disorder, Autism, ADHD, hyperactivity, insomnia and Oppositional Defiance Disorder.

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    Pharmaceuticals,  Psychiatry,  CCHR,  psychiatric
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