There is a thing called the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual DSM that doctors use to put a label on little Johnny’s disorder. It is revised every few years. The number of conditions it describes tripled last revision. There is a pill to go each one.
The American Psychiatric Association is like the progressive bureaucrat that passes more laws to help keep his job.
From John Rappaport that follows below-
psychiatrist will prescribe that child drugs like Ritalin, Adderall, Zoloft, Paxil, or Prozac, drugs that scramble neurotransmitter systems and can very certainly cause that child to go violent.
Would you let a five-year-old smoke a joint? I certainly hope not. Yet that would probably be less harmful than loading kids up on pharmaceuticals.
Currently, over a million American children UNDER SIX YEARS OLD are taking psychiatric drugs. Babies are literally being doped up by the pharmaceutical industry. Over 274,000 babies UNDER ONE-YEAR-OLD are given drugs, mostly for anxiety. Read the rest of this entry »
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