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Kids and teens overmedicated?

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    Study: Antipsychotic drug use growing

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Anti psychotic drug use among teens and kids going up especially the way that it's happening psychiatrists are prescribing anti psychotic drugs for almost one in three kids.

-- teenagers who come to visit them and that's up from about one in eleven during the 1990s.

The controversy really gets heated up though because.

Researchers say many psychiatrists are giving anti psychotic drugs to kids -- -- -- Off label which means describing them -- things other than what they're approved for example -- behaviors like attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Of the Food and Drug Administration has approved anti psychotic drugs for schizophrenia bipolar disorder in -- irritability with autism -- and but not ADHD.

And has no proof it actually works for that so -- could be very dangerous but for more information on these stories.

And all the latest health news I get to do isn't it Fox News -- dot com at a Carmen thank you so much -- always.

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