There’s a new blog in the blogosphere, Hollywood Spectrum, and its first post offers a summary of the original script of a certain TV show set to air tonight, in which lawyer Eli Stone takes on an insurance company which won’t pay for treatments for “William,” who has autism (and who is played by an autistic child). The treatment in question is not some alterna-biomedical magic supplement, but Risperidone: After a month on this antipsychotic (which has been approved to treat “irritability” in autistic children), William’s mother describes the value of the drug this way: “He actually smiled.”

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