Finally! Someone calls it properly. The kids are on these drugs because they are already screwed up in one way or another, not the other way around.
Maybe so, but it is grossly irresponsible to further compound the problem by the unpredictable effects of drugging them.
There are few people on earth who couldn't be diagnosed with some disorder or another, given sufficient observation.
then how come there aren't an equal number of kids that are 'screwed up" but not on drugs doing the shootings?
just curious
bump for later
Hmmmm...perhaps they shouldn't be wandering around freely?
Why would they be treated with drugs unless there was a diagnosis? Let's leave ADD and ADHD out of this discussion as far as the question of those diagnoses being legitimate.
FDA Public Health Advisory October 15, 2004
Pediatric patients being treated with antidepressants for any indication should be closely observed for clinical worsening, as well as agitation, irritability, suicidality, and unusual changes in behavior, especially during the initial few months of a course of drug therapy, or at times of dose changes, either increases or decreases.
But with depressed patients you're usually worried about suicide. With these drugs you're also seeing bizarre homicidal rampages. Do you remember that kid in South Carolina who killed his grandparents that was recently found guilty? He also had a recent increase in the dose of Prozac or Zoloft like this kid in the Minnesota school killing and suicide.