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The Crisis Of Overmedicated Children

10:12 am EST September 2nd, 2010 | News | 23 Comments

Too often nowadays, parents just don’t want to do the job of raising their children, and instead put them on dangerous, mood-altering drugs as a substitute for parenting. It’s very sad.

At 18 months, Kyle Warren started taking a daily antipsychotic drug on the orders of a pediatrician trying to quell the boy’s severe temper tantrums.

Thus began a troubled toddler’s journey from one doctor to another, from one diagnosis to another, involving even more drugs. Autism, bipolar disorder, hyperactivity, insomnia, oppositional defiant disorder. The boy’s daily pill regimen multiplied: the antipsychotic Risperdal, the antidepressant Prozac, two sleeping medicines and one for attention-deficit disorder. All by the time he was 3.

He was sedated, drooling and overweight from the side effects of the antipsychotic medicine. Although his mother, Brandy Warren, had been at her ‘wit’s end’ when she resorted to the drug treatment, she began to worry about Kyle’s altered personality. ‘All I had was a medicated little boy,’ Ms. Warren said. ‘I didn’t have my son. It’s like, you’d look into his eyes and you would just see just blankness.’