Kids on Antipsychotics

I can't tell you how disturbed I am by the increasing trend to put kids on antipsychotics, and ever increasing psychiatric medications. Isn't Ritalin bad enough? There is little to no research on the efficacy of this with children, yet their increase grows all the time. I wonder what the side effects will be on this generation of children raised on these medications.

Here is the story that sparked this small rant: Social worker says she warned family

I worked in Youth Mental Health, and while I know there were young kids that came in that were troubled, I don't remember seeing any that I thought powerful drugs were a necessity FOR THEM. Am I just blind to a growing reality? I'm not dismissing that possibility, but I find it hard to believe that a 4 year old needs Seroquel....