CCHR: Millions of U.S. Children Funneled into Dangerous Drug Polypharmacy

LOS ANGELES, Calif., Dec. 2, 2025 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Tens of thousands of American children who begin with a prescription for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) drugs ultimately end up on multiple powerful psychiatric drugs, sometimes even before they are old enough to attend elementary school. A new Wall Street Journal analysis of 2019–2023 Medicaid data found that children aged 3 to 14 who were started on an ADHD drug were more than five times as likely to be prescribed additional psychiatric drugs within four years compared to peers not on ADHD drugs. Most of the added drugs were antidepressants or antipsychotics—agents associated with severe, sometimes irreversible, side effects.[1] However, the mental health industry watchdog, Citizens Commission on Human Rights I