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25% of US Children on Prescription Drugs

02/01/2011 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

Well, here is a distinctly depressing statistic with which to start the new year… alerted by Natural News, I have just read an article by Anna Wilde Mathews in the Wall Street Journal.

One of the most worrying aspects of this mass medication programme is that most of the drugs which are prescribed for children on a chronic basis have not been tested on children, but on adults. A growing number of studies are suggesting what one would have thought would have been self evident – children’s bodies are very different from adult bodies and may react to drugs in very different, and potentially dangerous, ways.

Although the situation is nowhere near as bad in the UK yet, trends have a well documented habit of travelling east across the Atlantic, so I suggest you take note.

Do we detect the long arm of big pharma again?….

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