Researchers also found an increase in young people taking more than one mental health drug, with the rate nearly doubling ...

Established drugs were repurposed, “me-too” drugs were approved, and even the few new biological approaches lacked clinical ...

California, by contrast, has a statewide average of 12.5 %. Over the past decade, the number of foster children on psychotropic medications has declined by 22% in California, which has coincided with ...

By Tarun Sai Lomte An expert editorial suggests that widely used diabetes and obesity drugs may help close the long-standing mortality gap faced by people with serious mental illnesses by tackling ...

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 ...

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 ...

A recent study highlights a surprising potential benefit of diabetes and obesity drugs, GLP-1 receptor agonists, in improving ...