NY Times: Still in a Crib, Yet Being Given Antipsychotics
Still in a Crib, Yet Being Given Antipsychotics If your child under the age of 2 is behaving oddly, are antipsychotic medications the answer? Many apparently think so; nearly 20,000 prescriptions for anti-psychotics were given to US children that age in 2014, all for withdrawn or violent behavior, up from 13,000 the year before- despite zero published research about the drugs’ effect on kids that young- the New York Times reports. “It was just ‘Take this, no big deal,’ like they were Tic Tacs,” says Genesis Rios about her 18-month-old son Andrew’s prescription to Risperdal, which is normally given to adults...
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