Medscape

Managing Psychotropic Drug Costs: Will Formularies Work?

Several characteristics of mental disorders, psychotropic drugs, and the structure of the mental health care financing system are likely to influence the potential effectiveness of formularies at ...
McKnight's Long-Term Care News

Initiatives yield decline in antipsychotic use across resident racial, ethnic groups: study

Following two key federal initiatives to reduce overreliance on antipsychotic medications in nursing homes, declining exposure has occurred evenly across resident racial and ethnic groups, according ...
Healio

'Increased oversight' needed: One in three kids in foster care prescribed psychotropics

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . More than one-third of children on Medicaid in the foster care system were prescribed psychotropic medications, ...
Insurancenewsnet.com

New Managed Care Study Findings Have Been Reported by Researchers at University of Maryland (Stimulant Patterns, Alone or With Other Psychotropic Classes, In Medicaid-insured ...

2024 MAR 14 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News-- Fresh data on Managed Care are presented in a new report. According to news reporting from Baltimore, Maryland, ...
The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel

CCHR: Prescription Psychotropics are Overlooked Driver of the U.S. Drug Epidemic | U.S. | gjsentinel.com

Adult prescribing has steadily increased across four major psychotropic classes. [13] The journal Pharmaceuticals warns of SSRI dependence and withdrawal, affecting 55–65% of users. [14] In 2023, ...
The Conversation

Antipsychotic drugs harm older people, let’s reduce their use

Dr Juanita Westbury is leading the Reducing Use of Sedatives in Aged Care Facilities (RedUSe) project which is funded by the Australian Government Department of Social Services under the Aged Care ...