Lee Ballard Approved for adults only, Prozac is being used to medicate children as young as 8 years old. Why are we using powerful drugs to raise our daughters? By Clare Kinberg A few months ago, a 17 ...

In 1987, the antidepressant fluoxetine (Prozac) was introduced. It had been tested by the FDA and found to be an effective antidepressant with fewer than usual side effects. Doctors began to ...

“Prozac Diary,” by Lauren Slater ... adults and 1 in 3 children between the ages of 12-17 (that’s 8.2 million kids) were given some kind of mental health treatment in 2022 and 2023.