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This from the CBC:

“Medical research out of the University of British Columbia suggests the number of children taking medications known as atypical antipsychotics has increased tenfold over the past decade, CBC News has learned.

“The drugs — a class of medicines used to treat psychosis and other mental and emotional conditions — can have potentially serious side-effects, and are linked to increases in stroke and sudden death in adults.

“Health Canada has not approved atypical antipsychotics for children.”

It’s all so discouraging that I literally don’t know what to say, except to note that it isn’t good.

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