Foster care youth are prescribed psychotropic medications at a rate 2.7 to 4.5 times higher than nonfoster children on Medicaid, according to a 2011 audit of five states conducted by the United States ...

A federal judge on Monday ruled that the government must obtain parental or guardian consent before administering psychotropic drugs—those that can affect the brain or behavior—to migrant children in ...

This retrospective cohort study included 168,173 participants who were tested for SARS-CoV-2 ribonucleic acid from 2020 to 2021, identified from the UK Biobank (2006-2010). Primary outcome: the risk ...

An audit conducted this summer revealed that children in Florida's foster care system are being prescribed powerful psychotropic medications at alarmingly high rates. In many cases, state child ...

The psychiatrist who has been prescribing powerful psychotropic medications to immigrant children at a federally funded residential treatment center in Texas has practiced without board certification ...

A federal judge approved a "groundbreaking" settlement last week designed to ensure that children in foster care in Missouri are administered psychotropic medications only when safe and necessary, ...

SOURCE Authors’ analysis of data from IQVIA Longitudinal Prescription Data, 2020. NOTES Weekly new starts of antidepressant medications from January 1 to August 8. The shaded area represents an ...

A question often asked by patients is whether they should consider psychiatric medications. Although psychologists do not prescribe medications, we often work with patients who are already taking ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . An implantable loop recorder feasibly and acceptably monitored arrythmias among patients taking psychotropic ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Clinicians must make important considerations regarding the use of psychotropic medications and substances among ...

Normally, Shelbey Ward uses her platform AdAstraStickers on TikTok to promote the clever, nerdy stickers she makes and sells, with occasional commentary on life thrown in for good measure. But in May ...