Psychotropic medications are used to treat mental health disorders. There are five main types of psychotropic medications, and each type has its own specific uses, benefits, and side effects. Your ...

Psychotropic medications are drugs that affect the mind, emotions, and behavior. The broad categories of psychotropic medications, which we will break down further, include: antidepressants, ...

Antidepressants and other psychiatric medications are associated with an almost doubled risk of premature death in patients with heart conditions, according to research published today in the European ...

Powerful psychotropic drugs are often the next step, even though their combined effects in young children haven’t been ...

The widespread use of psychotropic drugs to treat people experiencing mental illness does not always correspond to their effectiveness or real need. Driving this is a complex web of factors including ...

WASHINGTON, D. C. - Ohio’s foster care system does not adequately track psychotropic and opioid medication prescriptions for children in its care who have painful injuries or conditions including ...

When singer Noah Cyrus first took Xanax, she was just 18 and hoping to bond with her then-boyfriend. But Cyrus quickly entered what she describes as a "dark pit" of being addicted to the substance.

Powerful psychotropic drugs are still prescribed to foster children at four times the rate of non-foster youth. Government analysis of medical records has found that many foster children have been ...

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 ...