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One in five children on stimulants for ADHD also given antipsychotics concurrently
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
the brown university child and adolescent psychopharmacology update
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7567
pISSN - 1527-8395
DOI - 10.1002/cpu.30044
Subject(s) - psychiatry , psychology , medicine
Medicaid data from four states — Illinois, Texas, California, and New York — showed that almost one in five children and adolescents who were given long‐acting stimulants (LAS) for attention‐deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) received concurrent second‐generation antipsychotics.