ROME, NOV 10 - The use of psychiatric drugs in minors in Italy more than doubled in the eight years from 2016 to 2024, drug agency AIFA reported Monday. Some 0.26% of minors took them in 2016, rising ...

Powerful psychotropic drugs are still prescribed to foster children at four times the rate of non-foster youth. Government analysis of medical records has found that many foster children have been ...

Among nearly 1,000 youths prescribed montelukast for the first time in a single health system, a history of psychiatric ...

Patients with autoimmune Addison disease (AAD) showed increased use of hypnotics/sedatives, anxiolytics, and antidepressants in the year before diagnosis, suggesting potential misdiagnosis of early ...

This holds true for other medications. For example, many young women are opting out of the birth control pill, influenced by social media discussions of side effects and messaging about how the ...

Infants exposed to opioids and psychotropic drugs during pregnancy have a 30% to 60% higher risk of experiencing neonatal withdrawal, a study has found. That risk doubles when multiple psychotropic ...

Stay up-to-date with the politics team. Sign up for the Teen Vogue Take I entered the foster care system at a young age, moving many times. My experience was nothing short of a nightmare. I was told ...

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights International (CCHR), a 50-year mental-health industry watchdog, is urging ...

Doctors are prohibited from prescribing psychotropic substances without a valid medical justification. Any doctor who ...

Pills. by Fillmore Photography for WMNF News. A bill introduced in the Florida Senate would require medical examiners to conduct screenings to test for psychotropic drugs on suspects of a mass ...