Drugging Our Children: How Profiteers Are Pushing Antipsychotics on Our Youngest, and What We Can Do to Stop It

by Sharna Olfman

This book exposes the skyrocketing rate of antipsychotic drug prescriptions for children, identifies grave dangers when children's mental health care is driven by market forces, describes effective therapeutic care for children typically prescribed antipsychotics, and explains how to navigate a drug-fueled mental health system.

Since 2001, there has been a dramatic increase in the use of antipsychotics to treat children for an ever-expanding...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313396833
• ISBN13: 9780313396830
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 7 to 17 years