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Antipsychotic prescribing down for youth, especially for the youngest
Publication year - 2017
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.30189
Subject(s) - citation , psychiatry , antipsychotic , child and adolescent psychiatry , antipsychotic drug , psychology , medicine , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , library science , computer science
The trend in prescribing antipsychotics for youth has gone down from 50 per 1,000 in 2008 to 30 per 1,000 in 2013, researchers have found. They looked into the reasons for this decrease and found that the largest decrease was for children under age 6.