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Psychotic Nation: Why Big Pharma Targets Lower-Class Children

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occupycorporatism.com ^ | April 26, 2014 | Susanne Posel



The National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), implemented by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) have released a report detailing how an estimated 7.5% of US children ages 6 to 17 are currently prescribed psychotropic mood stabilizers for alleged emotional or behavioral problems.

This translates to 1 in 13 school-aged children in the US are taking at least one major pharmaceutical on the basis that their behavior is not appropriate and necessities medical attention.

Data concerning 2011 and 2012 from 17,000 children was provided to the NHIS for this study.

It was shown in the study that white, non-Hispanic; males were most likely to have a diagnosis of a behavioral disorder, while 4.0% of older female children were being prescribed psychotropic drugs.

Those children on Medicaid or CHIP coverage were 9.9% more likely to have prescribed medications than those who came from families that could afford private health insurance.

LaJeana Howie, statistical researcher for the NCHS commented : “We can’t advise parents on what they should do, but I think it’s positive that over half of parents reported that medications helped ‘a lot,’”

The intimation by the researchers is that attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is represented as the majority of diagnosis; which would validate the argument that ADHD is over-diagnosed and as a result the children are over-medicated for issues that may not necessarily pertain to them.

In fact, 9.2% of impoverished children were prescribed psychotropic drugs where the household income was at 100 – 200% of the poverty line.

Shockingly, it was also shown how the parents’ perception of their children’s behavior great determined whether or not the child would be forced to take drugs to control their moods.

(Excerpt) Read more at occupycorporatism.com ...


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