The psychiatric drugging of infants and toddlers
CounterPunch
by Evelyn Pringle
04/20/10
The United States has become the psychiatric drugging capital of the world for kids with children being medicated at a younger and younger age. Medicaid records in some states show infants less than a year old on drugs for mental disorders. The use of powerful antipsychotics with privately insured children, aged 2 through 5 in the US, doubled between 1999 and 2007, according to a study of data on more than one million children with private health insurance in the January, 2010, ‘Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry’...
http://counterpunch.org/pringle04202010.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=drugging
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=mental+disorder
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=antipsychotic
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=health+insurance
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Evelyn+Pringle
by Evelyn Pringle
04/20/10
The United States has become the psychiatric drugging capital of the world for kids with children being medicated at a younger and younger age. Medicaid records in some states show infants less than a year old on drugs for mental disorders. The use of powerful antipsychotics with privately insured children, aged 2 through 5 in the US, doubled between 1999 and 2007, according to a study of data on more than one million children with private health insurance in the January, 2010, ‘Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry’...
http://counterpunch.org/pringle04202010.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=drugging
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=mental+disorder
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=antipsychotic
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=health+insurance
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Evelyn+Pringle
rudkla - 21. Apr, 10:52
