At 18 months of age, Kyle Warren of Opelousas, La. was given antipsychotic drugs to help with outbursts he was having. The NY Times reports that he then had autism, BPD, hyperactivity, sleeping disorders and oppositional defiant disorder before he was three. Even his mom admitted he was “a drooling, sedated, overweight zombie” due to the medicine. This has been happening often which is why experts have gotten involved. The question is whether toddlers should be receiving antipsychotics at all. Article source – Antipsychotics for toddlers pose severe risks by Personal Money Store.
Antipsychotic prescriptions double without proper assessment
Antipsychotic drugs are being used on more than 500,000 children and adolescents, reports the Food and drug administration in a September 2009 study. The greatest amount comes from teenagers dealing with schizophrenia, since numerous believe that is the age when the disease comes out, although “tens of thousands” of preschoolers are getting drugs from pharmaceutical corporations.
A Columbia University study was shown in the Times to have surprising results about toddlers, privately insured, ages 2 to 5. It showed that from 2000 to 2007, the amount of toddlers getting antipsychotics doubled. A proper mental health assessment as defined by the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry was only done on 40 percent of the children within the survey.
Weaning America off the antipsychotics for toddlers habit
Critics worry that young children are being prescribed antipsychotic drugs much too early. A professor of clinical psychology consulted for a Lane University program aimed at assisting low-income families with kids who have mental health issues, Dr. Mark Olfson, is horrified by the practice.
“There are too many children getting on too many of these drugs too soon,” he told the Times.
Olfson is just one of numerous doctors that suggest these heavy medications shouldn’t be written for children or infants as often as they are. There is not a real way to tell if mental conditions actually exist in young children. This makes the FDA’s acceptance of certain AstraZeneca- and Bristol-Myers Squibb-branded antipsychotics for use on toddlers all the more disturbing, thinking about the wide range of disagreement within the clinical community as to whether brains at such an early stage of development should be exposed to such potent mind-altering products.
This means that antipsychotics can legally be prescribed to toddlers for off-label use, although it isn’t exactly safe. Pharmaceutical businesses are getting a lot of profit off this.
No longer can it be said that
My peers and I care about this earth
It will be evident that
My generation is apathetic and lethargic
It is foolish to presume that
There is hope.
And all of this will come true unless we choose to reverse it.
-From “Lost Generation” by Jonathan Reed
NCBI
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20215922
NY Times
nytimes.com/2010/09/02/business/02kids.html?_r=1 and partner=rss and emc=rss and pagewanted=all
Bio Med Central
biomedcentral.com/1471-244X/9/80
Actupny
actupny.org/reports/durban-licensing.html
Generations lost
youtube.com/watch?v=MR4EWSbXLWA
Alternatives to toxic psychiatric drugs
youtube.com/watch?v=sBN2Zjz4W-
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