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49 Percent More Preschoolers are Taking Antidepressants

  • April 02, 2004

The use of antidepressants continues to grow by about 10 percent each year among children and adolescents and the fastest growing segment is preschoolers aged 0-5 years. Use among girls in this age group doubled and use among boys grew by 64 percent from 1998 to 2002. Altogether, this represents a 49 percent increase. You can read this past article about antidepressants causing suicides in kids to find out why this is such a concerning increase, particularly when there are other treatment...
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