Staggering Numbers of Children on Drugs
"A 2005 study by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University revealed a disturbing 212-percent jump from 1992 to 2003 in the number of teens 12 to 17 abusing controlled prescription drugs. These included depressants and stimulants.
"Americans spent some $2.5 billion in 2003 on psychiatric drugs for children… That represented an attention-grabbing jump in just three years of 183 percent in such spending overall and of 369 percent in spending for ADHD drugs for preschoolers.
"At a congressional hearing in May 2000 Terrance Woodworth, a deputy director in the Drug Enforcement Administration, testified some 17 million prescriptions for psychoactive drugs for minors are written each year -- 40 percent of them for youngsters 3 to 9 and 4,000 for tots 2 and under."
"Americans spent some $2.5 billion in 2003 on psychiatric drugs for children… That represented an attention-grabbing jump in just three years of 183 percent in such spending overall and of 369 percent in spending for ADHD drugs for preschoolers.
"At a congressional hearing in May 2000 Terrance Woodworth, a deputy director in the Drug Enforcement Administration, testified some 17 million prescriptions for psychoactive drugs for minors are written each year -- 40 percent of them for youngsters 3 to 9 and 4,000 for tots 2 and under."
—Ped Med: The ADHD quandary, by Lidia Wasowicz, UPI Sr. Science Writer, Jan. 27, 2006
posted by Naomi Fox at 5:54 PM
1 Comments:
My issue is Zyprexa which is only FDA approved for schizophrenia (.5-1% of pop) and some bipolar (2% pop) and then an even smaller percentage of theses two groups.
So how does Zyprexa get to be the 7th largest drug sale in the world?
Eli Lilly is in deep trouble for using their drug reps to 'encourage' doctors to write zyprexa for non-FDA approved 'off label' uses.
The drug causes increased diabetes risk,and medicare picks up all the expensive fallout.There are now 7 states (and counting) going after Lilly for fraud and restitution.
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Daniel Haszard
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