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The Drugging of Our Children
Paying the Price in Suicide and Death
Psychiatric drugs are prescribed to 20 million children worldwide, 9 million in the United States. These drugs potentially cause violent behavior, psychosis, hallucinations, strokes, heart attacks, overweight, life-threatening diabetes and even suicide.
At least eleven of the recent school shootings were committed by teens taking prescribed antidepressants or stimulant drugs.
Every 20 seconds a child in the United States takes an antidepressant so dangerous that the FDA has issued its strongest "black box" warning, alerting the public that these drugs can cause suicidal thoughts and actions.
The number of children prescribed antidepressants has increased more than tenfold since 1987.
In one state alone, more than 7,400 children prescribed these drugs under Medicaid were 5 years or younger, with nerarly 2,000 aged 3 or under. Over 50% of the prescriptions were to treat conditions for which these drugs are not FDA-approved.
Psychiatric drugs do not improve academic performance. The National Institutes of Health reports "there is little improvement in academic achievement or social skills" by children taking stimulant drugs.
The scientific basis for ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) is fraudulent. The Food and Drug Administraiton states, "There is no biological test for ADHD." It was voted into the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) by members of the American Psychiatric Association in 1987. This has driven up sales of stimulants to treat ADHD to $3 billion a year.
Dr. William Carey, pediatrician with the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, states, "The current ADHD formulation, which makes the diagnosis when a certain number of troublesome behaviors are present and other criteria met, overlooks the fact that these behaviors are probably usually normal."
Often an undiagnosed, untreated physical condition can cause unwanted behavior or supposed psychiatric symptoms. Parents should be given the option of a nonpsychiatric medical examination and access to all educational resources to address any perceived learning or behavioral problem in their child. Many alternatives to drugging exist.
Some children, especially those with rare conditions, receive many different drugs while in the hospital, a new study finds.
Acetaminophen, albuterol and antibiotics were the drugs most commonly given to hospitalized children, the researchers said. They also found an association between length of hospital stay and the number of drugs given to children.
On the first day in children’s hospitals, patients younger than 1 year at the 90th percentile of daily medication use received 11 drugs and those 1 year or older received 13 drugs. In general hospitals, patients younger than 1 year received 8 drugs and those 1 year or older received 12 drugs.
By the seventh day of hospitalization in children’s hospitals, patients younger than 1 year at the 90th percentile of total use of different medications had received 29 drugs and patients 1 year and older had received 35 drugs. In general hospitals, patients younger than 1 year had received 22 drugs and patients 1 year and older had received 28 drugs.
To arrive at the findings, researchers analyzed the medical records of 365,868 patients younger than 18, who accounted for 491,451 admissions in 52 children’s hospitals in 2006. In addition, they examined the medical records of 221,559 patients younger than 18, who accounted for 260,740 admissions in 411 general hospitals the same year.
The study is published online Sept. 5 in the journal Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.
Patients with rare conditions were more likely to receive a greater number of drugs, said Dr. Chris Feudtner, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and colleagues in a journal news release.
The researchers noted that information on safety and efficacy in children is lacking for many drugs given to children in hospitals.