During the early 1990s, the numbers of children and teenagers in the United States receiving prescriptions for psychiatric drugs rose markedly, a new study finds.
Julie M. Zito of the University of Maryland, Baltimore and her coworkers analyzed medical data on nearly 900,000 youngsters enrolled in Medicaid programs–in an unnamed mid-Atlantic or Midwestern state–or in a large health maintenance organization (HMO) in the Pacific Northwest.
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