It's still a mind altering drug because otherwise it wouldn't have any effect as far as they were concerned since they're trying to use it to quote, "treat autism symptoms" and they still want to give it to autistic children who won't have a choice and some most likely won't understand what's being done to them to make an informed choice either even if it was explained to them fully which is unlikely.
They're already subduing many thousands of autistic children and also some autistic adults with dangerous and addictive mind altering drugs, they are no longer themselves, often left in a semi vegetative state because they're easier to handle, this new drug would be just taking what is already evil abuse even further. And yes their drugs are dangerous, once the doctors put my brother who is on the very low functioning part of the autistic spectrum in hospital with life threatening liver failure and severe jaundice (he was yellow), luckily after he stopped taking the drug they'd prescribed to "calm him down" he started making a full recovery and he was very lucky not to have permanent liver damage. My parents were stupid in my opinion because they accepted an apology for this shocking abuse when they should have taken them to court. On a previous occasion with another drug my brother just sat there and barely wanted to do anything, he most definitely wasn't himself and wasn't having any quality of life in that state, yet the so called "experts" kept saying what an amazing improvement it was, my parents gradually took him off the drug against all medical advice and before long they had their son back. Thankfully my parents have now learnt their lesson, but some parents are perfectly happy to have their autistic children subdued into such states and this happens all the more when autistic children and adults are put into care homes.
Autism is big business for the corrupt and powerful pharmaceutical companies and even more so is anxiety / depression which are also common co-morbid conditions along with other mental health conditions, they don't care about the damage they're doing to society including autistic people and children as long as the money continues to come flooding in, in fact if their drugs are addictive and make people worse in the long run, even better because it means they'll be taking their drugs all the more and they'll do anything to protect their evil enterprise with some of the most expensive and powerful lawyers in the world. They'd welcome another addictive mind altering drug for autistic children that many parents will be conned into using, even more money flooding in to top up their $Billions of profits already in the bank. And if you don't think many of their mind altering drugs are addictive when they say that they're not habit forming, trying stopping taking them instantly after you've been taking them for a while because you have to cut down slowly to avoid what can often be very unpleasant withdrawal which can be both psychological and physical.