From Scientific American: Many autistic children are prescribed multiple psychiatric medications, which can lead to serious adverse effects and are often ineffective.
“Multiple diagnoses lead to drug cocktails, but no clinical trials have tested combinations of the most commonly used medications, so potential drug-drug interactions are unknown. ‘Every drug has side effects, and when you start to mix them together youâre looking at something thatâs not been studied,’ King says. ‘And in autism, where you might have communication impairments, itâs even more worrisome because people are less likely to be able to tell you that your medicines are making them feel sick.'”
