Psychiatric drug use in preschoolers stabilizing

By Andrew M. Seaman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - By the end of the last decade, psychiatric medications were being used less often in very young children, a new study suggests. Researchers found the percentage of children prescribed antipsychotics, stimulants and antidepressants at doctors' visits spiked in the mid-2000s but leveled off again between 2006 and 2009. "I'm very excited that the use of these drugs in this age group seems to be stabilizing," Dr. Tanya Froehlich, the study's senior author from Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in Ohio, told Reuters Health. ...



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