Stopping Over Medication of People with a learning disability, autism or both (STOMP) & Start Effective Personalized treatment (STEP). Also STALICLA
Lake Geneva with its famous fountain (Jet d'eau) As some regular readers are well aware, people with autism are often prescribed psychotropic/psychiatric drugs to make them more manageable; this is particularly true of those who live in residential care homes and for those living in America. When it comes to adults, as Tyler just pointed out in a comment, 1 in 6 adult American takes one or more psychotropic/psychiatric drugs. These drugs do not treat the underlying dysfunctions in most autism, but do produce a more compliant/sedated individual. They often lead to weight gain and its associated medical problems; some of these drugs are addictive, some can cause irreversible side effects (e.g. tardive dyskinesia). In England there is a campaign called STOMP to stop this overuse of these psychiatric drugs in people with autism, which can only be a good thing. STEP Hopefully one day there will be a campaign to treat the underlying biological dysfunctions within autism, which could be c...