** Please visit our website: http://www.africanassociation.org ** You have been sent this message from [log in to unmask] as a courtesy of washingtonpost.com Personal Message: Parents, please take note of the accompanying story on psychiatric drugs being administered to children. Gist of the story is that many medications that are given to children do not have adequate long-term data backing their use. Honestly, I am absolutely appalled at learning how studies for these drugs are conducted. Considering how critical the problems and these medications are, the least the FDA and drug companies should do is make sure that proper long-term studies are done on drugs they approve for psychiatric problems. - Wilmot Psychiatric Drugs' Use Drops for Children By Shankar Vedantam Warnings that drugs such as Prozac, Paxil and Effexor can increase suicidal behavior in some children have resulted in a nearly 20 percent drop in U.S. pediatric prescriptions of the widely used antidepressants and have triggered deep concerns about the quality of current data on psychiatric drugs. To view the entire article, go to http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/07/AR2005100701795.html?referrer=emailarticle Would you like to send this article to a friend? Go to http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/emailafriend?contentId=AR2005100701795&sent=no&referrer=emailarticle Visit washingtonpost.com today for the latest in: News - http://www.washingtonpost.com/?referrer=emailarticle Politics - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/politics/?referrer=emailarticle Sports - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/sports/?referrer=emailarticle Entertainment - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artsandliving/entertainmentguide/?referrer=emailarticle Travel - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artsandliving/travel/?referrer=emailarticle Technology - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/technology/?referrer=emailarticle Want the latest news in your inbox? Check out washingtonpost.com's e-mail newsletters: http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?node=admin/email&referrer=emailarticle Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive c/o E-mail Customer Care 1515 N. Courthouse Road Arlington, VA 22201 © 2004 The Washington Post Company ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, visit: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/aam.html AAM Website: http://www.africanassociation.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
