This is not another epidemic among the youth where they are experimenting with drugs, but according to the site, youth as young as toddler stages are being prescribed psychiatric drugs, which pose an issue considering the brain and the enormous amount of potential it has at such early stages of development.
Continue reading to find out the questionable drugs and just how much of an increase they have had among the youth’s prescription.
Considering the drugs that have been prescribed in the last few years targeting attention deficit disorder and other behavioral disorders alike would you ever consider usage for your toddler?
New research shows that young children and infants are being prescribed psychiatric drugs at an increasing rate despite the fact that there is next to no research on the both the short and long term effects of such drugs on developing brains.
Prescriptions for antipsychotics like risperidone and quetiapine, which go the brand names Risperdal and Seroquel, jumped 50 percent from 2013 to 2014, hitting 50,000, The New York Times reports. At the same time, prescription for antidepressants like fluoxetine, sold under the name Prozac, jumped 23 percent to 83,000.
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