Psychotropic drugs mess with your mind — but not always in a bad way. Find out how they can be used to treat a range of mental health conditions. The class of psychotropic drugs is a big one, and you ...

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 ...

Dispensing of psychotropic medication increased among children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes (T1D) from 2006 to 2019, according to a study published online Oct. 3 in JAMA Network Open. Shengxin ...

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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 ...

Use of medications for mental health and behavioral conditions among children and young adults increased steadily for two decades, and about one in four young people taking these medicines were ...

The widespread use of psychotropic drugs to treat people experiencing mental illness does not always correspond to their effectiveness or real need. Driving this is a complex web of factors including ...