There are stories here to chill the blood of anyone who has ever placed trust in a doctor, government official or scholarly journal. We read that the drug companies aggressively target children, pathologizing behaviors that only yesterday were thought of as simply a phase, because kids make such fine customers in terms of compliance and longevity. "Few indeed are kids who start out diagnosed and treated for ADHD [and] bipolar disorder" who end up on no drugs," notes the author. "Even if they outgrow their original diagnoses--a big "if' with a mental health history that follows them--the side effects from years of psychoactive drugs on their physical health and on mental, social and emotional development take their toll."
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