Reply #6: there's a doctor who's been calling for a moratorium [View All]

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on psychiatric drugs for children for years. his name is peter breggin-- he wrote "toxic psychiatry", "the antidepressant fact book", and "your drug may be your problem".

interview with peter breggin on pbs frontline:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/medicating/interviews/breggin.html

"There are many, many reasons why we're giving more and more psychiatric drugs to children. Probably the most important reason is simple marketing. The drug companies, like the tobacco industry, like the alcohol industry, are highly competitive, and are always searching out new markets. The adult market has been saturated for antidepressant drugs. How many millions and millions of people can take Prozac and Zoloft and all the other drugs? We have more adults taking antidepressants than the National Institute of Mental Health estimates there are depressed people in the United States. The market is saturated, so the pressures move automatically to other markets. And the biggest next market is children. So you have drug company representatives, you have drug company-sponsored conferences examining this issue, or encouraging this issue of marketing to children."


pretty nasty stuff. i hope more people read his work and open their eyes. we need to stop doping up our kids.