Do 18-month-olds need extreme psychiatric medicine?
(NEWSER) - Kyle Warren was given his first dose of antipsychotic drugs to deal with his temper tantrums at 18 months. By age three, he’d been diagnosed with autism, bipolar disorder, hyperactivity, insomnia, and oppositional defiant disorder, and was taking a fistful of psychiatric medicine each day. He was, his parents tell the New York Times , a drooling, sedated, overweight zombie. “You’d look into his eyes and you would just see blankness,” says his mother. More»
