Dear Friends of Roscoe Chiropractic,
I want to share some statistics with you regarding the number of prescription drugs dispensed to children and teens in 2009.
ADHD - 24.4 Million
Asthma - 45.4 Million
Antidepressants - 9.6 Million
Sleep Aids - 307,000
Antipsychotics - 6.6 Million
Statins (High Cholesterol meds) - 94,000
Antihypertensives (High Blood Pressure) - 5.2 Million
Non-Insulin-dependent (type2) Diabetes - 424,000
Just looking through that list makes me wonder why so much of the US is so drug happy. Have you ever really listened to a TV ad for ANY prescription drug? Pay attention, right at the very end of the commercial when they get the person who can speed read the list of "side-affects" - do you know how many times death is included in that list of possible side-affects? That's just the extreme, much of the other things are not really worth the hoped effect the drug will even have on your issue. Diarrhea, nausea, thoughts of suicide, fatigue, depression. I mean it's a laundry list of horrible things that you'll end up taking another drug for to boot!
Anyway, I'm off my soap box, but the point is that in prescribing these drugs to children they have not actually been properly tested to administer to anyone, save adults. So the dosages and side affects are uncertain in prescriptions for children. In effect these children have become the guinea pig to test out the effectiveness of the drugs. There is a wonderful article in the May issue of To Your Health that I encourage everyone to read. It goes into detail about the concern of increased pediatric prescriptions. Check it out!
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