Tag Archives: Antipsychotics

Use of Antipsychotics in Toddlers 2-5 Deemed “National Tragedy” by Psychiatric Experts

  May 9, 2010 Leading Psychiatric Journal publishes study documenting a 200% increase in the administration of powerful antipsychotics, originally approved for adults with warnings of cardiac arrest / death as a “side-effect”, to children ages 2-5 largely – without even being … Continue reading

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Update on the Health Care Reform Bill: more calls and faxes are needed

CCHR Florida Update on the Health Care Bill   According to a New York Times article, dated 11 Dec. 2009, “New federally financed drug research reveals a stark disparity: children covered by Medicaid are given powerful antipsychotic medicines at a … Continue reading

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Seniors: The Antipsychotic Rx Generation

I am just appalled at the care of our elderly in the United States.  Per USA Today, 15% of our elderly were on psychiatric drugs in 2006, which has doubled compared to a decade prior.  The Official Journal of the … Continue reading

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