Posted by Simcha on December 19, 2003, at 0:50:48
In reply to Re: UK Has Banned Medication for Depressed Children?, posted by KarmaFairy on December 19, 2003, at 0:27:06
Karmafairy,
I agree that the politics stink. Availability is an issue. We in the western world seem to be fascinated with drugs and we seem to enjoy finding uses for them.
I hope you are right that most of those 50,000 children don't really need treatment with antidepressants. First that there really aren't 50,000 children suffering from mental illness. Second that if taken off of these meds these children will be fine.
I worry about treatment for children all the time. It is a main concern on my job and I was one of those kids too. I just hope that this rather radical step by the UK government is going to turn out OK.
Simcha
> I also know of the successes associated with drugs, and do not mean to discount those. I am mostly upset with the fact that virtually anyone (regardless of one's mental health) can obtain AD's if they wish, but when one wants solid answers to questions about these medications, often times there has been too little research. This is not the right way to do it at all. I suppose I am more upset with the politics of the drugs at the moment, than the drugs themselves. If a person displays sufficient need for a drug that has been proven safe, they should be able to have it. But I fear that too few of those 50,000 children really needed the drugs in the first place.
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