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Use of Antipsychotics by the Young Rose Fivefold
NY Times ^ | June 6, 2006 | BENEDICT CAREY

Posted on 06/06/2006 8:49:07 AM PDT by neverdem

The use of potent antipsychotic drugs to treat children and adolescents for problems like aggression and mood swings increased more than fivefold from 1993 to 2002, researchers reported yesterday.

The researchers, who analyzed data from a national survey of doctors' office visits, found that antipsychotic medications were prescribed to 1,438 per 100,000 children and adolescents in 2002, up from 275 per 100,000 in the two-year period from 1993 to 1995.

The findings augment earlier studies that have documented a sharp rise over the last decade in the prescription of psychiatric drugs for children, including antipsychotics, stimulants like Ritalin and antidepressants, whose sales have slipped only recently. But the new study is the most comprehensive to examine the increase in prescriptions for antipsychotics.

The explosion in the use of drugs, some experts said, can be traced in part to the growing number of children and adolescents whose problems are given psychiatric labels once reserved for adults and to doctors' increasing comfort with a newer generation of drugs for psychosis.

Shrinking access to long-term psychotherapy and hospital care may also play a role, the experts said.

The findings, published yesterday in Archives of General Psychiatry, are likely to inflame a continuing debate about the risks of using psychiatric medication in children. In recent years, antidepressants have been linked to an increase in suicidal thinking or behavior in some minors, and reports have suggested that stimulant drugs like Ritalin may exacerbate underlying heart problems.

Antipsychotic drugs also carry risks: Researchers have found that many of the drugs can cause rapid weight gain and blood lipid changes that increase the risk of diabetes. None of the most commonly prescribed antipsychotics is approved for use in children, although doctors can prescribe any medication that has been approved for use.

Experts said that little was known...

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: children; drugs; drugthekids; health; medicine; mentaldisorders; mentalhealth; moralabsolutes; pharmaceuticals; youth
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Society has gone nuts, IMHO.
1 posted on 06/06/2006 8:49:12 AM PDT by neverdem
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To: neverdem

We can solve this easily by throwing pot smokers in jail.


2 posted on 06/06/2006 8:50:17 AM PDT by thoughtomator (A thread without a comment on immigration is not complete)
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To: neverdem

Please tell me I wasn't the only one wondering who the heck Rose Fivehold was.


3 posted on 06/06/2006 8:51:03 AM PDT by Eepsy
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To: neverdem

Take these drugs, no don't take drugs....


4 posted on 06/06/2006 8:52:47 AM PDT by kinoxi
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To: Eepsy

LOL! No, you weren't. Come on, guys, pictures of young Rose Fivefold needed!

On topic, at least they gave some "from what - to what" numbers, but it still doesn't make much sense to me.


5 posted on 06/06/2006 8:53:15 AM PDT by Tax-chick (I am a daughter of God, a child of the King, a holy fire burning with His love.)
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To: Eepsy

I wondered who young Rose Fivefold was, too! (Maybe related to the Ben Folds Five.)


6 posted on 06/06/2006 8:57:43 AM PDT by bootless (Never Forget - And Never Again)
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To: Tax-chick
Come on, guys, pictures of young Rose Fivefold needed!


7 posted on 06/06/2006 9:00:26 AM PDT by Senator Bedfellow (If you're not sure, it was probably sarcasm.)
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To: Senator Bedfellow

I only count four folded towels.

You sure that is not Rose Fourfold instead?


8 posted on 06/06/2006 9:05:25 AM PDT by RadioAstronomer (Senior member of Darwin Central)
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To: Eepsy
"Please tell me I wasn't the only one wondering who the heck Rose Fivehold was."

You must be, because her real name was Rose Fivefold.

9 posted on 06/06/2006 9:05:57 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway~~John Wayne)
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To: Senator Bedfellow

LOL! I just got finished doing that!


10 posted on 06/06/2006 9:07:41 AM PDT by MissEdie
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To: Eepsy
Please tell me I wasn't the only one wondering who the heck Rose Fivehold was.

Ben Folds Five's cousin?

11 posted on 06/06/2006 9:09:20 AM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: RadioAstronomer
I only count four folded towels.

Rose is off her meds today.

12 posted on 06/06/2006 9:10:08 AM PDT by Senator Bedfellow (If you're not sure, it was probably sarcasm.)
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To: neverdem

Daughter recently took her daughter to a therapist because she kept having nightly nightmares. The so-called doctor talked to the 6 yr old child for about 10 minutes and prescribed Risperdal for her.
They came over to the house afterwards and I threw the Risperdal in the trash and told her to keep her away from the doctors.
Amazing.


13 posted on 06/06/2006 9:20:22 AM PDT by sheana
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To: Senator Bedfellow; aculeus; MississippiDeltaDawg

“Thanks to Zyprexa®, young Rose Fivefold can smile through washday drudgery.”

14 posted on 06/06/2006 9:44:04 AM PDT by dighton
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To: Senator Bedfellow

LOL!


15 posted on 06/06/2006 9:53:42 AM PDT by Tax-chick (I am a daughter of God, a child of the King, a holy fire burning with His love.)
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To: Ryan Spock; TheMom; TChris; Xenalyte; Semper Vigilantis; georgiadevildog; Chad Fairbanks; ...
Verbal mayhem ping ... is young Rose Fivefold on drugs, or what?
16 posted on 06/06/2006 9:57:33 AM PDT by Tax-chick (I am a daughter of God, a child of the King, a holy fire burning with His love.)
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To: Tax-chick

Or what?

Or as in

Use of MaryJane, by the old bougainvillea, down

but

"Use of Antipsychotics, by the Young Rose, Fivefold"


17 posted on 06/06/2006 10:03:23 AM PDT by bwteim (begin with the end in mind)
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To: dighton

“Thanks to Zyprexa®, young Rose Fivefold can smile through washday drudgery.”

Does that Zyprexa® stuff have some kind of unintended side-effect that makes your head appear too big for your body, or is it just me? ;) :D

18 posted on 06/06/2006 10:10:10 AM PDT by MozarkDawg
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To: Tax-chick

Poor, poor little Rose. She's psychotic, you know. Good thing they got her on them drugs right quick, or else who knows what might've happened.


19 posted on 06/06/2006 11:19:45 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: dighton; Senator Bedfellow; aculeus; MississippiDeltaDawg

Young Rose Fivefold.

20 posted on 06/06/2006 11:33:10 AM PDT by aculeus
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