New Hampshire kids receive too many psychiatric medications. A decade before Robert F. Kennedy Jr. raised the alarm on the overprescribing of psych medications to kids, a small group of researchers ...

A DECADE before Robert F. Kennedy Jr. raised the alarm on the overprescribing of psychiatric medications to kids, a small group of researchers and clinicians — including some from New Hampshire — were ...

A 50-state review finds many child welfare agencies do a spotty job monitoring prescriptions This week and next, we are publishing an investigative series, Medicated in Foster Care: Who’s Looking Out?

Kory Gonzales’s childhood and adolescence were defined by trauma, foster-care placements, loneliness – and a vast array of psychiatric medications. It wasn’t until he became a young adult that he took ...

Amid rising emotional and behavioral challenges among children, society has increasingly turned to psychiatric medications as a solution. From ADHD to depression, medications are now central to ...

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The use of psychiatric drugs by children and adolescents has more than doubled in the last decade, according to research released yesterday, January 14, in the journal The Archives of Pediatrics ...

Minnesota Sen. Tina Smith (D) blasted Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday after he suggested psychiatric drugs given to children could partly be to blame for school ...

ORLANDO -- Neuropsychiatric events among children after starting montelukast (Singulair) for allergy and asthma treatment were more likely for those who had a history of comorbid psychiatric ...

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on Thursday that he’s looking into psychiatric medication as a potential cause for American gun violence and mass shootings. The comments were a ...