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From Mind Hacks:
The New York Times has another investigative article on the pharmaceutical industry, this time looking at how promotions aimed at psychiatrists encourage the prescription of antipsychotic drugs to children.

As far as I know, none of the newer 'atypical' antipsychotics are licensed for children (actually, I'd be interested to hear otherwise).

This doesn't mean doctors can't prescribe them, as they have the freedom to prescribe 'off-label' whatever they feel would help the individual, but it does mean that the drug companies can't advertise them for this purpose.

'Off-label' drug promotion is illegal, but it is an open secret that it occurs widely.

Notably, the number of children prescribed atypical antipsychotics has soared in recent years, and in the only US state that keeps records of drug company promotional spending, promotional money seems to be a key factor:

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Well maybe some commment is needed. Raise kids with TV as the babysitter, making them hyperactive, pump high frutose corn syrup into their blood stream, cater to their whims, try to be a buddy instead of a parent, then when they are hyperactive, push drugs on them, it's a perfect business cycle for globalists corporations.

With medicade fraud rampant and doctors often involved in the scandals, and even milder fraud like insurance (claiming a nose job is necessary) is it impossible to consider that the doctors are involved in kickbacks?