The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will be increasing its oversight of the use of psychotropic drugs to pay closer attention to certain classes, warned the lead author of a federal report ...

Several characteristics of mental disorders, psychotropic drugs, and the structure of the mental health care financing system are likely to influence the potential effectiveness of formularies at ...

2024 MAR 14 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News-- Fresh data on Managed Care are presented in a new report. According to news reporting from Baltimore, Maryland, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . More than one-third of children on Medicaid in the foster care system were prescribed psychotropic medications, ...

A new study that explores deficiency-of-care citations in nursing homes offers a wealth of lessons on reducing overreliance on psychotropics in residents with dementia, according to researchers from ...

A federal judge approved a "groundbreaking" settlement last week designed to ensure that children in foster care in Missouri are administered psychotropic medications only when safe and necessary, ...

A new study challenges the perception that there is widespread overmedication and misuse of psychotropic drugs among adolescents in the United States with mental illness. The large, cross-sectional ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . New data suggest an increase in concurrent, or combination, prescribing of second-generation antipsychotics with ...

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn., Oct. 24 (UPI) -- Primary care providers should carefully monitor drug prescriptions, symptoms and effectiveness of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, U.S. researchers say.

Background Despite safety-related concerns, psychotropic medications are frequently prescribed to manage behavioural symptoms in older adults, particularly those with dementia. We assessed the ...

A new study has deemed that concern for clinically significant drug interactions between hormonal contraceptives (HC) and psychotropic drugs is low; however, the authors of the study did assert that ...

Dr Juanita Westbury is leading the Reducing Use of Sedatives in Aged Care Facilities (RedUSe) project which is funded by the Australian Government Department of Social Services under the Aged Care ...