Posted by linkadge on March 27, 2006, at 13:21:15
In reply to Re: autistic kids and meds, posted by Mandy on March 25, 2006, at 11:27:26
I think that some of the meds that kids are put on is very disturbing. My brother works for a group home for Children's Aid here in canada, and so he is responsible for med administration.
For starters, these meds are only bandaid solutions in mood disorders so they will only be bandaid solutions for behavioral disorders.
According to my brother, the meds poop-out in these sorts of situations too, all the time. He had a kid start out doing fine on such a dose of prozac, only to have it increase steadily as behavioral problems breakthrough.
The kids are mentally handicapped to begin with, so I don't see how putting them on grams of depakote or other anticonvulsants/antipsychotics is really going improve their long term outlook.
I highly doubt that these medications have any effect on the underlying pathology of such handicaps so I suppose that although the caregivers are happier that their job is easier I don't know if the patients future is improved all that much.
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