"Because of the process of foster care — multiple foster home placements, inconsistency with medical follow up, and difficulty in obtaining child psychiatrists — these kids will be at higher risk for ...

A federal judge on Monday ruled that the government must obtain parental or guardian consent before administering psychotropic drugs—those that can affect the brain or behavior—to migrant children in ...

Foster care youth are prescribed psychotropic medications at a rate 2.7 to 4.5 times higher than nonfoster children on Medicaid, according to a 2011 audit of five states conducted by the United States ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will be increasing its oversight of the use of psychotropic drugs to pay closer attention to certain classes, warned the lead author of a federal report ...

A federal judge approved a "groundbreaking" settlement last week designed to ensure that children in foster care in Missouri are administered psychotropic medications only when safe and necessary, ...

A question often asked by patients is whether they should consider psychiatric medications. Although psychologists do not prescribe medications, we often work with patients who are already taking ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . An implantable loop recorder feasibly and acceptably monitored arrythmias among patients taking psychotropic ...

When singer Noah Cyrus first took Xanax, she was just 18 and hoping to bond with her then-boyfriend. But Cyrus quickly entered what she describes as a "dark pit" of being addicted to the substance.