* Free ~ Spirit *
11-21-2003, 02:07 AM
Babies on drugs -
http://www.drugawareness.org/Archives/Miscellaneous/MRnextgen.html
The main drug awareness site -
http://www.drugawareness.org/home.html#
http://www.drugawareness.org/Archives/Miscellaneous/MRnextgen.html
The main drug awareness site -
http://www.drugawareness.org/home.html#
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LuvMyLilDoggie
11-22-2003, 08:23 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
Barb
szarkam
11-22-2003, 08:44 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, 11:58 AM
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.
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
11-27-2003, 02:09 AM
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!!
szarkam
11-27-2003, 12:24 PM
How can anyone tell in an infant - that is just crazy
free~spirit
11-27-2003, 02:22 PM
Well... they can't tell much better in an infant or toddler... which is the age they're now diagnosing ADHD a lot of the time, and starting treatment. So really, a two year old who is slightly behind his peers in maturity or who is more active may be diagnosed as ADHD at age two, given ritalin for years, then they try to go off of the ritalin and the damage it has caused will emerge only to have doctors try to say that its just the original condition returning.
(some kids who have true ADHD show symptoms when they are babies but it doesnt mean that its ok to diagnose, there are so many other things that could cause it and docs usually dont consider many of those, if any at all, which results in the drugging of completely healthy children)
(some kids who have true ADHD show symptoms when they are babies but it doesnt mean that its ok to diagnose, there are so many other things that could cause it and docs usually dont consider many of those, if any at all, which results in the drugging of completely healthy children)
szarkam
11-27-2003, 07:39 PM
I know, my friend was told by her son'r OT that he is showing signs of possible ADHD and he is 2.5. She said he is way too impulsive and hyper. I told her to get another OT.