Friday 26 October 2007

psycho

Last year in the United States, about 1.6 million children and teenagers - 280,000 of them under the age of 10 - were given two or more psychiatric drugs in combination. Over 500,000 were prescribed at least three psychiatric drugs. More than 160,000 got at least four medications together.

SOURCE: Medco Health Solutions, 2005.

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