Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Prozac Causes Aggression in Youth
One more study confirms what drug companies have known and hidden for years, that the class of antidepressants known as SSRIs can have severe adverse effects in the developing nervous system. When will the FDA stop the poisonous experiment on our children? Answer: When they no longer accept funding from drug companies and when drug companies can no longer lobby Congress. Since such changes are nowhere in sight, I suggest that parents ban all use of psychotropic medication in their children. There are only a very small percentage of children with serious problems that may benefit from the use of these drugs, and even those children need very close monitoring due to the high risk of adverse side effects. Brain meds are not candy; wake up parents.
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