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Osky
20th April 2010, 10:15 AM
http://tinyurl.com/y6wuu6m

"The United States has become the psychiatric drugging capital of the world for kids with children being medicated at a younger and younger age. Medicaid records in some states show infants less than a year old on drugs for mental disorders."

"The lead researcher on the study above, Columbia University psychiatry professor Mark Olfson, told Reuters that about 1.5% of all privately insured children between the ages of 2 and 5, or one in 70, received some type of psychiatric drug in 2007, be it an antipsychotic, a mood stabilizer, a stimulant or an antidepressant."

Holy crap - is this the sickest culture ever, or what? Government schools don't brainwash kids well enough, so now we need to literally turn them into robots? What are these zombie kids going to be like in adulthood (mentally and physically)?

Un-freaking-believable.

sunshine05
20th April 2010, 10:24 AM
That is disgusting. Why would anyone prescribe something like that to a baby? :(. And why would the parents go along with it. I mean, they don't even allow cold medications for kids under age 6 because they aren't safe.

StackerKen
20th April 2010, 10:33 AM
:(

Yeah...Not good.

Very sad :(

Grand Master Melon
20th April 2010, 10:35 AM
I think it's interesting that insurance companies would even pay for the drugs for such small children.

RJB
20th April 2010, 10:40 AM
They're drugging poisoning kids under 1 yo with psychotropic drugs?
Fixed the title for you ;)

Gaillo
20th April 2010, 12:22 PM
Brave new world.

Ifyouseekay
20th April 2010, 12:35 PM
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Cebu_4_2
20th April 2010, 01:36 PM
The schools are to blame for most of it, but who says infants need to be drugged???