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Argument Of Medication Analysis

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I agree with the way you are looking at the different points of view. I also want to bring to your attention the amount of medication the children are taking; the doses and the amount of different medications that are being prescribed. There have been studies where children are on more than one medication. There was an 18 month old that we put on antipsychotics for his severe temper tantrums. “By the age of 3, his drug regimen had expanded to include "the antipsychotic Risperdal, the antidepressant Prozac, two sleeping medicines and one for attention-deficit disorder.”” (Lane, Ph.D.) This child was later than diagnosed with Autism. The medication turned him into a zombie-like child, where his tantrums decreased, but the way he was acting, the

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