{"id":271975,"date":"2010-02-03T14:47:49","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T19:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f20\/toddlers-given-dangerous-mood-meds-38989\/"},"modified":"2010-02-03T14:47:49","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T19:47:49","slug":"toddlers-given-dangerous-mood-meds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/271975","title":{"rendered":"Toddlers given dangerous mood meds"},"content":{"rendered":"
Toddlers given dangerous mood meds<\/p>\n

<\/b>What ever happened to keeping drugs AWAY from kids? <\/p>\n

Now, pediatric pushers are shoving dangerous antipsychotic meds at an alarming rate on small children — even toddlers — for bogus diagnoses like attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and disruptive behavior disorder. <\/p>\n

You can see this outrage for yourself in the pages of the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. The chilling details: between 1999 and 2001, around one in 650 5-year-olds in the United States were being given these meds. <\/p>\n

That’s way too much already. But that’s nothing — because by 2007, that number had doubled to one in 329. <\/p>\n

And these powerful brain drugs — meds used to treat schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in adults — are also on the rise in toddlers between the ages of 2 and 4. <\/p>\n

Some of these kids are autistic, and some docs — mistakenly — think these powerful meds can help with irritability in autistic kids. But too many other kids are already being saddled with that made-up ADHD label before they can even speak in sentences. <\/p>\n

This should be criminal behavior — instead, it’s called "off-label." <\/p>\n

These meds aren’t approved for little kids in most cases — but docs are free to prescribe them whenever they want, for whatever they want. Makes it sounds like the docs are making decisions, but don’t kid yourself — if they’re prescribing antipsychotics to kids, it’s because they got the idea from their friendly Big Pharma sales rep. <\/p>\n

They certainly can’t be doing it based on the evidence — because there isn’t any. We don’t even know all the side effects of these drugs on kids that little — and I hope we never do, because a clinical trial of antipsychotic drugs on two-year-olds is quite possibly the most immoral drug experiment I can think of. <\/p>\n

I don’t care how moody, frustrating or energetic your 2- year-old is. They call it the "terrible twos" for a reason — they can be hard to take. They fuss, fidget and don’t pay attention — and guess what? They’re designed that way. <\/p>\n

The answer isn’t a drug — it’s better parenting. <\/p>\n

That’s not the only threat to our kids…keep reading for the latest garbage being shipped here from China.<\/p>\n

William Campbell Douglass II, M.D.
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Toddlers given dangerous mood meds What ever happened to keeping drugs AWAY from kids? Now, pediatric pushers are shoving dangerous antipsychotic meds at an alarming rate on small children — even toddlers — for bogus diagnoses like attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and disruptive behavior disorder. You can see this outrage for yourself in the pages […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4296,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4296"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}