'New evidence has shown children's lives are being put at risk by a
surge in the use of controversial tranquillising drugs which are being
prescribed to control their behaviour, the Guardian has learned. The
anti-psychotic drugs are being given to youngsters under the age of six
even though the drugs have no licence for use in children except in
certain schizophrenia cases, the report says.
The number of
children on the drugs has doubled since the early 1990s as the UK
begins to follow a trend started in the US, but critics say they are a
"chemical cosh" that could cause premature death.'
