Doctors Have Doubled Antipsychotic Prescriptions To Children And Youth: Study

According to a study published in the Lancet Psychiatry, researchers from doctors' offices have doubled antipsychotic prescriptions to children and youth in England.

The number of prescriptions for antipsychotics to English youth has increased by twofold between 2000 and 2019, according to a study, despite the absence of data about their safety in children who are smaller in size and still developing rapidly.

Researchers from the University of Manchester looked at more than seven mill...

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