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The Parent Report

Posted: Tuesday, 29 April 2008 5:36PM

Medicine

Doug Cope Reporting

Boston -- Medicine cabinets across America are overflowing. But what effect can all these pills have on your children?

Charles Barber is a lecturer in psychiatry at Yale University and the author of a new book Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry is Medicating a Nation. In his work Barber tracks a growing trend in American psychiatry...

Barber is concerned about the impact that advertising for drugs is having on the American attitude towards medication. He says parents should get back to basics...

Professionals have found that a supportive social context can also have a positive impact...

Barber encourages parents to have a more diverse perspective...

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