Study: Jump in anti-psychotics for kids troubling

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

Soaring numbers of American children are being prescribed anti-psychotic drugs -- in many cases for attention deficit disorder or other behavioral problems for which these medications have not been proven to work, a study found.

The annual number of children prescribed anti-psychotic drugs jumped fivefold between 1995 and 2002, to an estimated 2.5 million, the study said. That is an increase from 8.6 out of every 1,000 children in the mid-1990s to nearly 40 out of 1,000.

Disturbing.