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... Anti-Psychotic Drugs taken by Children have drastically Increased – Are all these kids Bipolar and Schizophrenic?

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March 17th, 2006 The A.D.D.

Book A study reported that there was a huge increase in the amount of children taking anti-psychotic prescription drugs in recent years.

These drugs are often used to treat attention deficit disorder (ADD) as well as other behavior problems.

The problem is that the psychotic drugs have not been proven to work for a many of these children taking the drugs.

The study was first reported in the March-April edition of the journal Ambulatory Pediatrics.

Dr.

William Cooper, a pediatrician with the Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital and lead author of the study made a statement of concern, "because it looks like these medications are being used for large numbers of children in a setting where we don't know if they work." The study reports that the number of children that have been prescribed anti-psychotic drugs went up an estimated 2.5 million in 2002 compared to 1995.

In 1995 there was around 8.6 out of every 1,000 children that were taking anti-psychotic medication compa...

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