Maggie Kozel, M.D. reveals a very frightening statistic: One in four American kids take chronic prescription meds. That's right, 25% of our children are taking daily medication for chronic conditions. Over 40 million kids are taking stimulants, anti-depressants, and anti-psychotics. The science behind this prescription epidemic? To put it kindly, it's poor. Poor diagnostic criteria, poor clinical studies establishing efficacy and safety, and extremely poor long term understanding of what happens in a child's brain when you disturb it with pharmaceuticals designed for adults and, e.g., fundamentally alter the serotonin system. Our health care system is way off track. It's bad enough when it hurts adults. What the pharmaceutical industry is doing to our children is criminal.
The CBO indicated that estimates would be much higher but the CBO anticipated drug manufactures would take action to limit supply to low priced countries (among other things) and those countries might act to prohibit exports to the US to preserve supply for their own country. this site
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