http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2010/04/20/study_cautions_psychotropic_medications_overprescribed_to_children.html
A new study from the Journal of Marital & Family Therapy warns of the dramatic rise in the use of psychotropic medications for children. One in every fifty Americans is now considered permanently disabled by mental illness, and up to eight million children take one or more psychotropic drugs.
Working in a pharmacy, I have seen this be the case all too often. The real shame is that it seems most prominent in poorer homes with those on medicaid. I don't know if it's just that since there's no cost to the parents to get the medication that it becomes easier than actual parenting, but getting kids addicted to methamphetamines so early in life can't possibly be good for anyone.
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