Huge numbers of infants, tots reported treated with antidepressants and other dangerous drugs
Shocking report reveals risky meds given to thousands of babies
It’s a national disgrace.
Over three-and-a-half-million kids are being drugged for ADHD. And these are kids as young as 4-years-old. Children in kindergarten!
But what about toddlers, kids under four? We couldn’t possibly be giving these precious little children dangerous drugs…or could we?
Well, the CDC has just announced that over 10,000 2- and 3-year-olds are being drugged — for ADHD!
That should be criminal! These are little kids who have just started learning their shapes and colors being given dangerous meds like Ritalin. And all because they’re acting like…well, little kids.
It’s shocking, I know. But what the CDC reported is just the tip of a horribly dangerous iceberg.
It took an undercover investigation to get the real facts. And they’re even worse.
In fact, they’re absolutely terrifying.
The CDC report about how many toddlers are taking ADHD drugs got a LOT of attention. But there was another study that didn’t get much notice at all.
A watchdog group called the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) discovered some shocking facts that dwarfed what the CDC found. Facts about what other drugs little children are being given.
And it also found out something that will send a chill up your spine. Almost three hundred thousand of these “kids” are just babies — infants under a year old!
The CCHR obtained documents from one of the biggest health information and data companies in the world. And it discovered that Ritalin is only one of many dangerous drugs that toddlers and infants are being prescribed.
According to numbers the CCHR uncovered, almost 250,000 babies just a year old and younger are being given anti-anxiety drugs like Xanax. Over 26,000 are on antidepressants, like Prozac and Paxil, and over 1,400 are administered ADHD drugs like Ritalin.
Again, these are infants we’re talking about, no more than a year old! Babies we’re told are too young to be given a taste of honey are being dosed with Prozac!
It also discovered something else the CDC missed out on entirely. That’s all the other meds 2- and 3-year olds are swallowing.
These preschoolers, it found, are being drugged by the hundreds of thousands on anti-anxiety meds, antidepressants and antipsychotics.
The figure for tots on anti-anxiety drugs alone is almost 319,000.
That’s not medical treatment — it’s child abuse!
And just how do you diagnose psychiatric problems in a two-year-old? Is it because they might cry when they need a nap, throw a tantrum if they can’t have an Elmo doll or maybe just refuse to go to bed?
Well, that’s just about as reliable as the way all of these ADHD diagnoses are made.
Even the National Institute of Health says that “we do not have an independent, valid test for ADHD.”
When Ritalin was first prescribed to kids who were “acting out” and not paying attention in the 1960s, we started the ball rolling in prescribing these dangerous drugs to kids. We started giving risky meds for an entirely made-up condition.
And now, over 50 years later we find that over a million kids up to 5 years old are being prescribed psychiatric drugs — meds that are even too risky for adults to take.
The biggest tragedy in all this is that we have no idea at all what these drugs are doing to these children. What horrible problems might it cause them when they grow up?
That is, if they grow up.
Sources:
“Watchdog Says Report of 10,000 Toddlers on ADHD Drugs Tip of the Iceberg–274,000 0-1 Year Olds and 370,000 Toddlers Prescribed Psychiatric Drugs” Kelly Patricia O’Meara, May 21, 2014, CCHR International, cchrint.org
“Thousands of toddlers are medicated for A.D.H.D., report finds, raising worries” Alan Schwarz, May 16, 2014, The New York Times, nytimes.com
