According to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), more than one in five adults (about 20%) in the United States has a mental health condition. Treatments for mental health conditions are ...

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made psychiatric medications a focus of his review of the country’s childhood chronic disease crisis, claiming the drugs have been ...

Powerful psychotropic drugs are often the next step, even though their combined effects in young children haven’t been ...

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 ...

Ask a healthcare professional (HCP) to name a psychiatric medicine and chances are they’ll say a brand approved at least 10 years ago. That finding, which comes from a ZoomRx survey, points to the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of foster children may be getting powerful psychiatric drugs prescribed to them without basic safeguards, says a federal watchdog agency that found a failure to care for ...

The number of American children being treated with psychiatric drugs has grown sharply in the past 15 years, tripling from 1987 to 1996 and showing no sign of slowing, researchers said yesterday. A ...

One in four Americans takes psychiatric drugs-many unaware of side effects including aggression and homicidal ideation.