LUPRON, AUTISM: 'Miracle drug' called junk science: Baltimore Sun

LUPRON, AUTISM: 'Miracle drug' called junk science: Baltimore Sun

Desperate to help their autistic children, hundreds of parents nationwide are turning to an unproven and potentially damaging treatment: multiple high doses of a drug sometimes used to chemically castrate sex offenders.

The therapy is based on a theory, unsupported by mainstream medicine, that autism is caused by a harmful link between mercury and testosterone. Children with autism have too much of the hormone, according to the theory, and a drug called Lupron can fix that.

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