Psychiatric Drugs' Use Drops for Children


Warnings that drugs such as Prozac, Paxil and Effexor can increase suicidal behavior in some children have resulted in a nearly 20 percent drop in U.S. pediatric prescriptions of the widely used antidepressants and have triggered deep concerns about the quality of current data on psychiatric drugs, doctors and regulators said.

The unprecedented fall of what were once considered wonder drugs comes as a series of taxpayer-funded analyses have systematically undermined the claims of industry-funded drug trials, raising thorny questions about the ways in which psychiatric drugs are being tested, marketed and used.
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Unfortunately that leaves 80% still getting these drugs. I fear they will discover they have irreversible brain chemistry changes. Too late.

They saw some bad effects of this line of drugs quite a while ago, esp. with an increase in aggressive behavior. All drugs are going to produce negative side effects in some patients. It's to be expected. No doubt there has been a good bit of overprescription, and there should be close monitoring of the patient's behavior in the first few months. These drugs do have their place, though.

Their place is the center of an exhibit devoted to the gulibility of Amerikwans.

British authorities last month went even further, telling doctors there never to prescribe medications to depressed children without first trying multiple alternatives, and never to prescribe drugs without also providing psychotherapy.Call me crazy, but isn't that just common sense? Doctors theoretically know more about the inner workings of humans than do the authorities, so why the hell did the doctors need to wait for the authorities to tell them this? It's insane to give young children these drugs, except as a last resort.

Children with severe forms of major depression -- losing weight, not sleeping, and showing suicidal behavior -- should get talk therapy for at least three months, Kendall said, before doctors consider adding a medication.

But Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, said requiring three months of talk therapy before giving medication is unrealistic, because talk therapy is not widely available.
The problem with talk therapy is that it only works if the patient wants to do it and trusts the psychiatrist. If they don't, then it doesn't matter if you sit them down in front of a shrink for 2 hours a day, three times a week. Nothing good will come from it. I personally don't like shrinks, but if they work for some people, that's great.

IMHO, a lot of depressed children probably wouldn't be so depressed if they were given proper attention from their parents, and if they weren't forced to go to multi-cult brainwashing, nigger-infested schools.

Call me crazy.Didn't your psychiatrist already made that determination (as he was prescribing your wellbutrin and adderal)? :D

Didn't your psychiatrist already made that determination (as he was prescribing your wellbutrin and adderal)? :D

Ha ha, no.