two useful links on the use of medication in children

This is an excellent New York Times piece.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/02/business/02kids.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1287324679-tvVEeW54l/CvJ7v/GGVHgw

This is an excellent online professional development course on critical
thinking in the use of psychiatric medication in chidlren.
http://www.criticalthinkrx.org

I feel like crying when I think of what's happening. This isn't medicine
at its best. On the Critical Think RX site there's a quote from a
Harvard provost about the use of antipsychotics in children which goes
something along the lines of "doctors are trading an emotional and
behavioural disorder for a life long physical condition."