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Medicating Children: The Risks and Alternatives

With childhood autism, ADHD, depression and anxiety on the rise, recent statistics reveal an alarming increase in the use of prescription medications for children, particularly behaviour-modifying drugs which include potent anti-depressants and anti-psychotics (despite growing evidence of misdiagnoses in many cases). While these drugs can often be useful, occasionally necessary, and even life-saving in the short