FACTS
OUR CHILDREN—THE STAGGERING TRUTH
Our children’s lives are imperiled in the name of profit by the psychiatric industry. Here’s how:
20 million
CHILDREN
worldwide are currently on psychiatric drugs.
90%
OF CHILDREN
who see a child psychiatrist in the US leave with a prescription for a mind-altering psychiatric drug.
1 million
CHILDREN
age 5 or younger in the United States are taking psychotropic drugs.
50%
INCREASE
in children prescribed antidepressants over a seven-year period in the United Kingdom.
1 IN 18
US TEENS
are prescribed antidepressants, despite Food and Drug Administration warnings of suicidal ideation.
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