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Baby's First Words: Risperdal? Fluoxetine? Methylphenidate?
Posted on May 10, 2018 14:11
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As incredible as it seems, infants and toddlers are being doped up with various antianxiety, antidepressant and antipsychotic drugs.
As mentioned in the Wall Street Journal, "Psychiatric drugs are now being given to infants and toddlers in unprecedented numbers." Yikes!
One can be a proponent and supporter of reasonably ethical profits, but c'mon man. Toddlers? Infants? Jeepers. Are these prescribing doctors/pharmaceutical enablers really this desperate and greedy for more revenue? Can't they find a better, more constructive way?
Just imagine. Some quack tells you that your five-month-old baby has clinical depression; some unscrupulous doctor, supposedly there to uphold a sworn oath, seriously diagnoses a baby with some mental disorder and then proceeds to actually prescribe these witchcraft potions for that child. These drugs are bad enough for some of us grown-ups.
Some of the brands include Prozac (Fluoxetine), Ritalin (Methylphenidate), Xanax (Alprazolam) and Risperdal.
With so much of the gun violence allegedly associated with these types of drugs (like selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) and their effects on mental health, what are these medical scoundrels trying to do? Recruit, medicate and develop the next class of gun-nut criminals?
There has been much open-source medical information repudiating these drugs' claimed, self-serving efficacies; elaborating on their terrible offsetting effects. Any comprehensive listing of the nasty side effects would burden the server load, but a few included are: hallucinations, isolation, belligerency, insomnia, paranoia, self-induced violence and suicide.
This disgrace, as legal as it apparently seems, is certainly much worse than some lousy pot smoker lying on the couch with the munchies. As these "healing professionals" prescribe consciously and with purpose, they arguably operate with a more malicious intent than illegal street dope dealers.
Whether one is a Trump hater or not, some in society might consider including these "medical-establishment" villains in the president's death-to-drug-dealers meme.
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