Guardian Unlimited (UK) ran an article called, “Four times as many children prescribed antidepressants,” which reports that the number of prescriptions for antidepressants and other mind-altering drugs given to British children under 16 has more than quadrupled in the last decade. Member of Parliament David Laws, Liberal Democrat spokesman for children, schools and families, said: "I think it is a major concern that drugs seem to be prescribed so easily these days to children of school age. I think a lot of people are concerned that there is an over-prescription of drugs when we ought to be looking more at the underlying causes of people's behaviour.

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