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* Free ~ Spirit * · 11-20-2003, 11:07 PM

Babies on drugs -
[url]http://www.drugawareness.org/Archives/Miscellaneous/MRnextgen.html[/url]

The main drug awareness site -
[url]http://www.drugawareness.org/home.html#[/url]

LuvMyLilDoggie · 11-22-2003, 05:23 PM

Thanks for the links FreeSpirit. I haven't had the chance to read the whole thing but it really gives ya something to think about. I am wholeheartedly AGAINST any antidepression drugs for children. Remember the boy who flew a plane into the side of a building in Florida a couple of years ago? I believe it was Prozac he was taking. I took Prozac and Xanax for a while and I know what they did to me as an adult. I can only imagine what it could do to a child.
Barb

szarkam · 11-22-2003, 05:44 PM

With all this terrible stuff going on why are so mnay people pushing meds on children and assuming they all have ADD/ADHD. I know some do and some need the meds, butit really seems to be the scapgoat for every child who is a little out of the norm or wild.

jsmcleod · 11-24-2003, 08:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Bosmom

Thanks for the links FreeSpirit. I haven't had the chance to read the whole thing but it really gives ya something to think about. I am wholeheartedly AGAINST any antidepression drugs for children. Remember the boy who flew a plane into the side of a building in Florida a couple of years ago? I believe it was Prozac he was taking. I took Prozac and Xanax for a while and I know what they did to me as an adult. I can only imagine what it could do to a child.
Barb

Actually, if you're referring to the kid that crashed his plan into the Bank of America Building in Tampa - it was supposedly due to his acne medication - Accutane - which has been reported to cause depression - not an antidepressant that caused his behavior.

free~spirit · 11-26-2003, 11:09 PM

Ya that was accutane that he was taking. What I found really awful in these articles was the information about how they are trying to make psychiatric dugs for mental illness and disorders such as adhd, bipolar, depression and others available to children who are younger than one year old!! This is outrageous!!