Psychiatric drugs are a big business in the United Kingdom — and business is booming.
The number of prescriptions for psychostimulants has soared 187 percent since 1994, now totalling some three quarters of a million. The stimulant market in the UK now tops £33 million a year.
The media often trumpets the “wonders” of such drugs, extolling them for the treatment of childhood learning and emotional “problems” and “disabilities.”
And all the while we are told these drugs are “safe and effective” for children.
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