Doctors prescribing antidepressants, antipsychotic medications to infants under the age of one, says psychiatrist: NewsTarget.com

According to Dr. Yolande Lucire, a forensic psychiatrist based in New South Wales, Australia, doctors are giving children younger than one year of age prescriptions for atypical antipsychotics -- a class of narcotics used to treat schizophrenia, bipolar mania, psychotic agitation and other similar conditions.

In an email to Alliance for Human Research Protection President Vera Hassner Sharav, Lucire, published on the AHRP web site, Lucire says that she is taking kids under her care off of atypical antipsychotic medications.

"Not one met the criteria for schizophrenia when these drugs were started," Lucire says in the email. She added that the patients "often got psychosis on antidepressants given for anxiety, or substance induced disorders."

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