What do you think about toddlers being prescribed antipsychotic medications?

Question

Medco Health Solutions Inc. reports the number of children taking antipsychotic medicines soared 73 percent in the four years ending in 2005, far outpacing the increase in adults.....What do the people think of this?

Answer 1

I think there are too many people that dont want to deal with and raise their children. They want a quick fix in a pill. I have a hard time understanding giving kids meds for what the rest of us dealt with growing up and now our kids cant deal with.

Answer 2

The number of children being prescribed these drugs jumped from 8.6 per 1,000 kids to over 40 per 1,000 between 1995 and 2002! That is an unusally worrying trend. Basically, it suggests that, even if the general prescription is warranted at all, at least some percentage of these kids are being misdiagnosed, possibly by lazy health care professionals.

It's well known that the drug comnpanies push whatever new medications they have on doctors. The trouble comes when doctors are given 'incentives' to prescribe one medication over another (or in this case the alternative being no medication at all). It is likely that some doctors will try to get these medications out as often as possible.

That's not even the worst of it. The fact is that these drugs are being issued in a setting where we don't know if they work. There are no conclusive studies to prove whether these drugs are beneficial or highly detrimental. In most cases, therapy of one form or another would probably prove more effective, and in some cases there is nothing wrong with the child other than a predisposition to being boisterous and... act like a child.

We've seen a similar (actually higher) trend with respect to the prescription of Ritolin and other ADHD medications. Those numbers jumped over 500% from the early to late 1990's. I feel that some of that almost incredible increase has to be at least partly attributable to misdiagnosis and uneccesary dispensing. Children being hyperactive and having a propensity not to focus is part of a child's natural development. Some children are simply left to their own devices for so long and then their 'remote control' parents wonder how it got to be so bad. Social dysfunctionality is definitely on the rise in this country and most of the western hemisphere because of differences in the way children are raised nowadays. It's not uncommon for a parent to concentrate on their child's needs for less than a few hours a week. I know that at least 30-40 years ago the opposite was generally the case.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

It's terrible. Parents are confusing normal toddler behavior as something being wrong. If anything, the parents probably aren't equipt to deal with it, so they think there's something wrong with the child. Parenting classes are the answer, not drugs.

Answer 5

I think it's serious. No one knows yet what giving medicines to kids with developing brains and bodies will do to them later on in life. I know sometimes kids need those meds, but they really shouldn't be on them until they stop growing--not until we know more about what effect(s) the meds will have on them later in life.

Answer 6

this is a great example of what a lazy and self-centered society we have become. most of these children are acting out as a way to gain attention from their pre-occupied parents who do not want to take the time to sit and merely read them a book or listen to a cd and dance around the room and act stupid for a minute. "I have work to do" "I have calls to make" ...........disgusting

Answer 7

It is a true statement that parents are LAZY and not willing to put the effort out required to raise a child. Our society is going to hell in a hand basket.

Answer 8

I think it is very sad!! All children are a bit ADD and crazy, aren't they?!! I know my sister and I always were and we were never on any kind of medication for it........thank god!!! This issue really gets me going, kids are kids, not Guinea pigs for adults to play with!

Answer 9

the reason children are having problems are becuase everyone is on some kind of medication.. blood pressure and other types of pills i can see people using.. but medicine that changes chemicles in your brain are scary

Answer 10

Do they need it? If they need meds I say ok. But if your just giving your kids dope because You don't want to deal with them then that is not cool.