>>The disclosures added a new dimension to a year-old controversy over the use of antidepressant drugs in children, which led a government advisory panel to recommend last week that the FDA require a strongly worded "black box" warning on the medications. While depression itself is known to increase the risk of suicidal behavior, two FDA analyses, including one by Mosholder, have concluded that the drugs may double the risk of suicide among some children.<<
FDA stands for "fatal drugs allowed". This article proves that.
There is a fat... a commonly occurring fat that is key to maintaining proper brain health, function, neurotransmission etc. In the orient they get plenty of this fat due to the seafood diet... (however that is becoming someting of an issue due to heavy metals) in fact... Japanese women have on average 6 times the amount of DHA in their breastmilk than do American women.
This is the National Institutes of Health search page.... go there
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?CMD=search&DB=pubmedand enter DHA depression in the search window and these papers will come up. Enough of this crap of putting kids on psychoactive drugs. The rampant stupidity of America's healthcare system is that they try to replace nutrients that are key to maintaining nervous system health, circulatory health and the like with synthetic chemicals. Their schooling was greatly lacking...
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