Study cautions: Psychotropic medications overprescribed to children

Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 06:30 in Health & Medicine

A new study from the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy warns of the dramatic rise in the use of psychotropic medications for children. One in every fifty Americans is now considered permanently disabled by mental illness, and up to eight million children take one or more psychotropic drugs...

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