My first thought when they decided to combine the Labor & Education department was that they were headed for child labor.
Because it’s relevant, I suffered from severe depression all my life. Thankfully it’s well managed now but I spent about 5 years on the “med-go-round” and at one point was prescribed antipsychotics and second what your friend said. These drugs are controversial for children, they do NOT know the long term effects of drugging developing brains this way. These drugs deplete dopamine and IMO should only be given to people while experiencing psychosis or in very exceptional cases for adults with medically diagnosed severe mental illness.