Doctors are irresponsibly prescribing more and more antidepressants and other mind-altering drugs to children

Child use of antidepressants up four-fold - Telegraph

Extract:

"The use of antidepressants and other mind-altering drugs among schoolchildren has more than quadrupled in the last decade, it is revealed today.

New figures show that GPs are prescribing pills in record numbers to combat stress, violent behaviour and even tiredness.

Under-16s were given drugs for mental health problems more than 631,000 times last year, compared to just 146,000 in the mid-Nineties.

The huge increase has been blamed on a rise in childhood mental illness sparked by family breakdown and high-stakes school exams.

But there are fears that family doctors are coming under pressure to prescribe drugs such as Prozac as a "quick fix" solution, when counselling would be better.

Politicians and children's charities last night branded the rise "very dangerous" and said a generation of young people risked becoming hooked on prescription drugs.

The findings come despite the publication of research showing that children given antidepressants run a higher risk of self-harm and are more likely to attempt suicide."

It is thoroughly irresponsible for our overpaid doctors to prescribe these brain-altering drugs to children! - And I don't buy the excuse that parents pressurise them into prescribing the antidepressants. - Nonsense!

The respected mental health charity, MIND, reported in May that a walk in the country was the most successful way of lifting depression - an admirable approach. See link

My own recommendation would be good healthy meals - low in salt, because salt can be particularly harmful to children. Good nutrition is a good doctor.

Prescription drugs are manufactured and sold for the benefit of the drug companies and their shareholders. GPs should not be damaging the health of their patients, especially the health of their child patients, with pharmaceutical junk, when there are perfectly safe - and cheaper - and better - alternatives.


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