Children throughout the world are increasingly prescribed antidepressants and other drugs designed to calm or stimulate their brains, according to two studies published in Archives of Disease in Childhood.
Researchers found "significant" increases of pediatric prescriptions of antidepressants in all the nine countries surveyed between 2000 and 2002, except Canada and Germany. In Germany the increase was 13 percent, the lowest recorded, while the U.K. had the highest with 68 percent, the researchers said.
Bloomberg articleResearchers found "significant" increases of pediatric prescriptions of antidepressants in all the nine countries surveyed between 2000 and 2002, except Canada and Germany. In Germany the increase was 13 percent, the lowest recorded, while the U.K. had the highest with 68 percent, the researchers said.
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Not to mention the schizophrenic nature of a "war on drugs" while pumping kids full of 'em. Not to mention the irony of a "just say no" campaign to kids who are on daily doses of behavioral modification drugs.
How has it come to pass that in fin-de-siècle America, where every child from preschool onward can recite the "anti-drug" catechism by heart, millions of middle- and upper-middle class children are being legally drugged with a substance so similar to cocaine that, as one journalist accurately summarized the science, "it takes a chemist to tell the difference"?
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