Word: prozac
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Following in the size 5 footsteps of Nancy Reagan, the Clinton administration is putting its big foot down on the issue of kids and drugs. OK, so Prozac isn't exactly heroin, but the President has lots of support for his latest campaign: A recent study that showed a steep increase in the number of very young, very energetic children on psychiatric drugs was greeted with nearly unanimous horror. Children's rights advocates and pediatricians were up in arms over the potential physical side effects of the drugs, which remain widely untested for pediatric use. And child psychologists across...
...grown-up psychoactive drugs. The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Maryland, raises serious concerns among pediatricians; it found a 50 percent increase between 1991 and 1995 in the number of children aged two to four who were prescribed psychiatric, behavior-changing drugs such as Ritalin and Prozac...
...generally far less expensive than counseling. "We absolutely don't want meds to become a quick?fix substitute for meaningful, albeit more costly, long-term therapy," says Dr. Smith. Because in the worst-case scenario, these toddlers on drugs could foretell a future peopled entirely by lifelong, glazed-over Prozac users who have no in-built abilities to deal with stress or sadness...
...preparation for life makes no sense when the life being prepared for resembles the one you've been living all along. Meanwhile, teenagers are discovering that there are medical ways to escape the angst part of growing up. Why have an existential crisis if you can be on Prozac? If current trends in psychiatry keep up, there won't be a drug or a diagnosis that kids and their parents won't be able to share. But a teenager on Prozac is not a teenager; he's a depressive studying for a driver's license. (And when Viagra starts being...
...Prozac Defense II, 1996 --Edward J. Leary claimed that a cocktail of Prozac and other drugs drove him mad and made him firebomb two subway trains. Verdict: guilty. Sentence: 94 years in prison...