Welcome to Natural MD Radio, your place to hear the whole truth on health and medicine for women and children and get the tools you need to take back your health naturally starting now. I'm Dr. Aviva Rong. A recent New York Times article that I read was actually beyond disturbing.

It was really upsetting. It described the use of

psychiatric drugs in kids under two years old and the data showed that as many

as 180-something thousand kids under two were taking some form of mood stabilizer or psychiatric medication.

And some critique came back about... or psychiatric medication.

And some critique came back about the article saying, well, a lot of that is for kids who are

using these medications for seizure because some of the same medications for mood stabilization are used for

seizure but in fact 83,000 of the prescriptions for medication for these kids

under two were actually Prozac.

Joining me today is my guest, friend and colleague

Lawrence Rosen or Larry, as he's known to us,

who is an integrative pediatrician.

I really want to say he's a pioneering

integrated pediatrician and founder of the whole child center. Larry is the

author of Treatment Alternatives for Children,

an Evidence-based Guide for Parents

Interested in Natural Solutions

for Common Childhood Aylments.

Dr Rosen is appointed as Clinical Assistant Professor

in Pediatrics at New Jersey Medical School and serves as

Medical Advisor to the Deidra Imus Environmental Center in Hackensack.

Additionally, he is a founding member and former chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics section on

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