http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-82836909/

Rampant medication use found among L.A. County foster, delinquent kids

BY GARRETT THEROLF
February 16, 2015, 6:33 p.m.

http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-82906810/

State Senate questions why so many foster kids are being drugged

BY GARRETT THEROLF
February 24, 2015, 4:38 p.m.

http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-82909629/

Legislators delve into why many foster children are on psych drugs

BY GARRETT THEROLF
February 24, 2015, 10:11 p.m.

http://blogs.wsj.com/experts/2015/02/19/why-are-so-many-toddlers-taking-psychiatric-drugs/

Feb 19, 2015

HEALTH
Why Are So Many Toddlers Taking Psychiatric Drugs?


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MURALI DORAISWAMY: Prozac for babies?

Psychiatric drugs are now being given to infants and toddlers in unprecedented numbers.

An analysis of 2013 IMS Data, found that over 274,000 infants (0-1 year olds) and some 370,000 toddlers (1-3 years age) in the U.S. were on antianxiety (e.g. Xanax) and antidepressant (e.g. Prozac) drugs. This report also found over 1,400 infants were on ADHD drugs.

A 2014 Georgia Medicaid analyses led by Susanna Visser at the CDC (see a video of her fascinating talk) when extrapolated nationwide by the New York Times found that over 10,000 toddlers were put on ADHD treatments. (Dr. Visser is currently working on national estimates but believes that the estimate from the Georgia data is conservative.)

Prescriptions of powerful antipsychotics such as Risperdal for infants and very young children have also sharply risen. Office visits for childhood bipolar disorder have risen 40-fold over the past decade in the U.S.

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Dr. P. Murali Doraiswamy is professor of psychiatry and medicine at Duke University Medical Center, where he also serves as a member of the Duke Institute of Brain Sciences and as a senior fellow at the Duke Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development.

Robyn O'Brien @foodawakenings · Feb 23
WSJ: A new analysis found over 274,000 U.S. infants & 370,000 toddlers were on antianxiety & antidepressant drugs http://on.wsj.com/17sJi3Q

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/living/health-family/article11620775.html

Former Mooresville child compensated by federal ‘vaccine court’
BY KAREN GARLOCHKGARLOCH@CHARLOTTEOBSERVER.COM
02/28/2015 5:32 PM 02/28/2015 11:48 PM

http://www.kintera.org/atf/cf/%7BBEBB52F7-5AE4-49F7-A192-BF4B7DD999C6%7D/AUTISM%20AWARENESS%20DAY%20FACT%20SHEETS.PDF

Did You Know?

 1 in 88 children are affected by autism
 1 in 54 boys is on the autism spectrum
 130 children are diagnosed per day
 A new case is diagnosed every 11 minutes
 More children are affected by autism than
diabetes, AIDS, cancer, cerebral palsy, cystic
fibrosis, muscular dystrophy or Down syndrome –
combined
 Autism is the fastest-growing serious
developmental disability in the United States
 Autism costs the nation $126 billion per year
 Autism receives less than 5% of the research
funding of many less prevalent childhood diseases
 Boys are four times more likely than girls to have
autism

http://www.ageofautism.com/2015/02/measles-hysteria-the-truth-about-a-non-epidemic-in-eight-simple-slides.html

COMMENTS:

It is AMAZING that the CDC can track EVERY damn CASE OF MEASLES in the United States...

OMG 4 more http://www.foxnews.com/health/2015/02/24/4-more-measles-cases-reported-in-california/

I would assume the CDC could also track the 130 NEW CASES of Autism each and every day... and report that to the public.
or perhaps a site needs to be set up for that information.

Posted by: cmo | February 24, 2015 at 01:36 PM[

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