Differential Risk of Increasing Psychotropic Polypharmacy Use in Children Diagnosed With ADHD as Preschoolers.

CONCLUSIONS: Psychotropic polypharmacy, antipsychotic, and anticonvulsant use increased with each year of follow-up. This effect was strongly mediated by the age of ADHD diagnosis with substantial increases in preschoolers but no corresponding effect in older children. It was only partially explained by physician diagnoses of concomitant mental disorders. PMID: 28686819 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Journal of Clinical Psychiatry - July 9, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Tags: J Clin Psychiatry Source Type: research