Mon, 01 Aug 2005

Polypharmacy in children on the rise in the US

And here I thought we were in the midst of a "War on Drugs" ... I think a better phrase would be "War of Drugs".

Pediatric polypharmacy, the practice of prescribing two or more medications for psychiatric symptoms in children, is on the rise in the United States, raising concern about unknown side effects, according to a new study appearing in the August issue of the journal Psychiatry 2005

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On 8/2/2005 19:05:08
orangeguru wrote

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