Drugging Our Children

It’s all over today’s news; toddlers are being given medications not approved for their use.

Planet Chiropractic has been reporting about the increase in the use of psychiatric drugs among children for some time now, the news we report today is quite disturbing and should concern everyone.

Several news feeds are reporting on a study in this weeks Journal of the American Medical Association, which shows an increased practice of giving psychiatric drugs to children.

According to the study, there has been an increase in preschoolers in state Medicaid programs and an HMO getting psychotropic medications.

What the researchers found very disturbing was that these drugs are being used in children without any justification. The drugs are not even approved for use in children of this age group. Ritalin for example, carries a warning against its use in children younger than age 6. The drugs are being prescribed to children under the age of 1. (That is not a misprint, less than one year old and being pumped with poison.)

How does a medical doctor diagnose a child less than a year old with ADHD? This is just plain sickening.

Here are your links doctors:

Toddlers Popping Prozac ABC News – Health
Study shows more toddlers taking psychiatric drugs Nando Health/Science
Psychiatric drug use in toddlers soars MSNBC Health