A government report reveals that one in three (34%) of adolescents ages 12-17 on Medicaid and in the child welfare system were prescribed psychotropic drugs, with half of them prescribed two or more. Children in the child welfare system who are prescribed psychotropic drugs face the risk of drug side effects complicating their ability to […]
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