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I’m reasonably certain that not too many of you all are Fox News Channel viewers, but it continues to be the only TV news network to report on the insanity and inanity around psych meds in the US. The network has reported on anti-depressants and their problems, the recent Zyprexa settlement, the use of antipsychotics in kids and Glenn Beck has openly called anti-depressants terrible drugs on his show. And, yesterday, an FNC reporter in Florida reported on the use of antipsychotics in young foster children in that state, calling them “chemical restraints.” I cannot find the transcript, but I assure you this actually happened, and while he did screw up some of the details (claiming that the meds were for manic depression when in fact they are being given to kids mostly for ADHD in that state), I’m glad to see FNC giving this important issue some attention. Besides, something like 2 million people watch FNC during the afternoon, so a lot of people saw the piece.

Whatever you might think of FNC, CNN, MSNBC, and NBC haven’t delved into these issues much that I am aware of, and that’s kind of bizarre when you consider that on the order of 40 million Americans take some kind of psych med each and every day. CBS and ABC do take occasional swipes at such stories, but not with the consistency of FNC. I wonder why.

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