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8/03/2005 08:45:00 PMUSA Today reports on a new study that kids diagnosed withmental and behavioral problems increasingly get multipledrugs, even though the drugs aren't always tested for efficacyon kids or in combination with one another. Why the explosion?• Drug companies are marketing their products moreaggressively to consumers and doctors. "Many parentscome in and want that 'quick fix.' "• One drug often causes side effects; since moremedications than ever are available, kids get another drugto deal with these side effects. For example, stimulants maycause insomnia, which leads to prescribing sleeping pills.• Insurers often are more willing to pay for pills than fortherapy.Now Cruise hates psychiatry in general and opposes ALL medicationfor mental illness, which is crazy. (Pun intended.) But that shouldn'tcloud the fact that young people seem over-medicated and that it'seasier for schools to demand that parents put their kids on pillsrather than just deal with a kid who may be perfectly normal, just alittle bored in class (maybe they're too smart?) or just, you know, akid.The best part of a serious debate would be to recognize that somepeople do need medication and it needn't be any more stigmatizedthan knowing that one kid needs insulin for his diabetes and anotherneeds medication for their ADD.
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