Better living through chemistry?
May. 5th, 2008 12:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackofallgeeksThis is a
mostly-unremarkable article discussing a recent study showing that kids in
the US are prescribed psychiatric drugs at a rate six times that of
kids in the UK. The study doesn't say that US kids are being over-medicated
or that UK kids are being under-medicated, but rather notes that there's
little long-term saftey data on most of these drugs and with rates in both
counties rising, odds are that kids are being over-medicated in both
countries.
I'm avowedly against most medications for most anything (though I'll concede
that body chemistry DOES have an effect on human health and wellbeing,
that's kind of my point), the most troubling line in the article was, "It
found the increase was mostly in medicines that haven't been officially
approved for kids."
Unrelated: a passing headline on that page notes that 25% of the nutrients
we absorb nourish our eyes. There's my useless fact for the day.
mostly-unremarkable article discussing a recent study showing that kids in
the US are prescribed psychiatric drugs at a rate six times that of
kids in the UK. The study doesn't say that US kids are being over-medicated
or that UK kids are being under-medicated, but rather notes that there's
little long-term saftey data on most of these drugs and with rates in both
counties rising, odds are that kids are being over-medicated in both
countries.
I'm avowedly against most medications for most anything (though I'll concede
that body chemistry DOES have an effect on human health and wellbeing,
that's kind of my point), the most troubling line in the article was, "It
found the increase was mostly in medicines that haven't been officially
approved for kids."
Unrelated: a passing headline on that page notes that 25% of the nutrients
we absorb nourish our eyes. There's my useless fact for the day.
