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Now Infants Are Being Diagnosed With Depression

It's hard to imagine that children the age of five and even younger are taking mind-altering medications on a daily basis, however research trends have shown that this is the largest growing age group that are taking antidepressants. Evidence of this increase was supported in the following statistics. Children taking antidepressants went from 160 per 10,000 in 1998 to 240 per 10,000 in 2003. The greatest growth could be seen among girls (a 68 percent increase) over boys (a 34...