If you didn’t catch the Front Line documentary, The Medicated Child last night on PBS you
can also watch it online, and I highly recommend that every parent make a date
with this frighteningly informative documentary. Gwynne Watkins interviewed
filmmaker Marcela Gaviria in Babble’s 5-Minute Time Out, who explores this new
phenomenon that has put six million American children on psychiatric drugs;
most of which have never been tested on children.
For all of our children’s sake, I wish this doc could be shown
at the hospital along with the lessons on breast-feeding and burping. My
husband and I struggled through the show last night, sickened by the
destruction of a seemingly happy and energetic kindergartener who is now a
young man besieged with too many physical tics and emotional problems to keep
track of in an hour-long special, all of them the result of experimental drug
cocktails.
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