Articles tagged with: medication
Psychotropic Medication Use among Adolescents
Psychotropic Medication Use among Adolescents: United States, 2005–2010
Key findings
Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
Approximately 6.0% of U.S. adolescents aged 12–19 reported psychotropic drug use in the past month.
The use of antidepressants (3.2%) …
How Do Psychiatric Drugs Work?
Most people begin taking psychiatric medications because they are “distressed and distressing.”
Is Psychotherapy Dying?
I’ve heard the murmurs for a while now. My professors back in graduate school often bemoaned the decline of private practice. They said managed care and Big Pharm threatened to render psychotherapy obsolete (to a …
Psychoactive Drug
A psychoactive drug or psychotropic substance is a chemical substance that acts primarily…
