Editorial: Best Practices in Child Antipsychotic Use Monitoring

One major change in our field over the past 20 years has been the rapid increase and acceptance of antipsychotic use for children. Pediatric use of antipsychotics was quite rare as recently as the 1990s, but by the mid 2000 ’s there had already been a roughly 6 fold increase in antipsychotic prescribing. There is of course nothing inherently wrong with rapidly increasing utilization of a drug class, particularly when it yields significant clinical results.
Source: Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - Category: Psychiatry Authors: Tags: Editorial Source Type: research