No Child Left Different (Childhood in America)

by SharnaOlfman (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2008

  $43.32

  A remarkable team of experts spotlights and questions the soaring number of children diagnosed with psychiatric disorders and placed on medication, some not even old enough to attend school, and many--up to 40 percent--placed on multiple psychiatric drugs that have never been clinically tested on children.

• New

  Hardcover
  2006

  $119.51

  Over the years, there has been an increase in the use of psychotropic medications with girls and boys under the age of 20, and prescriptions for preschoolers have skyrocketed. This book explains this increase, questions the causes, and presents disturbing thoughts regarding this phenomenon and the risks it creates for children.