title: Should I Medicate My Child?: Sane Solutions For Troubled Kids With-and Without-psychiatric Drugs
author: Lawrence Diller
description: "This compassionate book, which includes extensive discussions of relevant psychiatric drugs and weighs benefits against side effects, will help concerned parents decide if medication is the right option for their child."
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  For Team Program
  
  
  And in loving memory of my grandmother Josephine Parzych
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # PART I
  
  
  # COME AS YOU WERE
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### THE EPIDEMIC
  
  
  Over the last four years, suicide has reached epidemic proportions, killing
  one in three teens. But new studies have shown the incidence of suicide in
  adults has suddenly risen, debunking the myth that childhood vaccinations or
  overuse of antidepressants is the cause.
  
  
  While The Program has been the only method of prevention, its scope is
  limited. But in reaction to the spread of the epidemic, officials have enacted
  a new law to take effect later this year. All teens under the age of eighteen
  will undergo behavior modification with The Program. Like any inoculation, the
  hope is to eradicate the disease from future generations. Through a
  combination of mood stabilization and memory therapy, The Program claims a 100
  percent success rate among its patients.
  
  
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