I posted this just now on the same topic in General Mental Health...
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Thanks for posting this article.
I read it yesterday and it's relevant to many conversations I've read in the past on some of the forums where I participate. Especially my autism forums with regard to prescription of the neuroleptics/antipsychotic medications.
I'm not in the USA but I've suspected it happens here a lot as well. Sometimes medications are also prescribed off label. We also found that here when certain meds. when a specialist physician, e.g. Neurologist or Neuropsychiatrist, prescribed it didn't have to go through Health Department checks, but if the local General Practitioner prescribed, they needed to get on the spot approval from the State Health Dept.. I would imagine that it is pretty rampant with psychiatrists here.
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The Times found that psychiatrists who took the most money from makers of antipsychotic drugs tended to prescribe the drugs to children the most often.
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shocking state of affairs really.