year. every year thousands of american children are prescribed the drug and others like it. according to the national center for health statistics, 5% of teenagers aged 12 to 19 years old, do take an antidepressant now. is that necessary? or are we overmedicating our children? so joining us to discuss this is the author of the book, coming of age on zoloft. catherine sharp. catherine, welcome. thanks, alli. in your research in writing the book is it that more teenagers today are in need of anti-depressants and antianxiety medication or are doctors overprescribing it? that s a difficult question to answer. i think there are number of things going on describe the increase and use of these drugs for one thing the stigma to using anti-depressants has gone down. that s a good thing to certain extent. usage explained by other factors such as insurance
about the contents. nothing appears criminal. we may get results sooner than the six to eight weeks some said days ago. that same source is down playing as speculation said drugs and alcohol led to her death. we don t know until toxicology results come in. it may happen sooner rather than later. we are learning who will be speaking and p singing at the funeral. her ex-husband bobby brown will be attending. he plans to perform a few hours later at a casino in connecticut. dr. drew joins us with more on the drug angle. first, jason is outside the new hope baptist church with more late details. there s new information about who is going to be at the funeral saturday. what do you know? reporter: i can tell you earlier, i spoke to a woman named kim ber el. it may not be familiar to some people. those in the gospel community, she was well known. she was friends with whitney houston for years. they were extremely close. she will perform. the song is called i believe in you and me
drug described. antianxiety and see sedation. i am concerned the doctors make it too available. it may not take a lot. if you have alcohol, and you also take a sedative, you can actually be knocked unconscious quickly, and it suppresses breathing in the brain, so, if there are a lot of ifs, if she was in the bathwater and under the water it could be because she stopped breathing from the medication. the combination of alcohol and sedatives is not good and if it was more than one sedative, i would never prescribe more than one, xanax and valium, all mentioned, some concerns about what we call poly pharmacy, physicians that are enabling celebrities. neil: but even after the
and good morning, everyone. it s friday, december 2nd. ali and carol are both off today. i m christine romans along with alina cho on this american morning. so glad you got the memo. i know. we re both feeling a lot like christmas this morning. up first, the countdown is on for herman cain. he s heading back home to atlanta this morning in the decision to whether continue his campaign could be in his wife s hands. cain says we will know by monday at the latest whether he s in or out of the race, and yesterday for the very first time, cain admitted that getting out is an option. he okay knowledged he did give money to the woman he said she had a 13 jeer-year affair with . his wife only found out about ginger white when the rest of us did. that is correct, and she was hurt that she didn t know about this friend that i was helping financially. she was aware of many of the other friends that i have helped. ginger white spoke to lawrence o donnell on msnbc last night a
herman cain. what happened. a man who has known him for 27 years comes out front, so let s go outfront. captions by vitac www.vitac.com i m erin i m erin burnett, and outfront tonight, caingate. not only that, he s pointing the finger. here he is on sean hannity s radio show just a couple of hours ago. we knew we were going to be attacked. we just never thought that we were going to be attacked, based upon a planted story coming from another one of the campaigns. never imagined that. as for that, rick perry fought back just a couple of moments ago on john king, usa. we found out about this the same time that i suppose the rest of america found out about it, both on the internet or next day in the news, so, you know, i don t know how to tell any other way except knew nothing about it, sir. outfront tonight, a person who has known herman cain for 27 years. he was recruited to work as his vp. cain is also the godfather to his children. thanks so much for