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The rising rates of psychotropic drug prescriptions among children are critiqued by experts who stress the need for more evidence and safer practices. They emphasize improving safety, involving families in treatment decisions, and ensuring that prescriptions are evaluated regularly and discontinued appropriately. Credit: SciTechDaily.
There’s limited evidence to back up the widespread and increasing rates of prescribing mood-altering drugs as the mainstay of mental health treatment for children and young people, warn experts in an editorial, published today in the August issue ofBut first and foremost, current prescribing practice for these drugs, which include sedatives, anti-anxiolytics, antidepressants, antipsychotics, and melatonin, needs to be a lot safer, they insist.
Another study shows that more than 56,000 under-17s were taking melatonin in 2022, which represents an increase of 168% on the equivalent figures for 2015. They cite data from a large US household survey showing a sharp rise in the numbers of young people being prescribed a cocktail of these drugs, despite mounting concerns about the safety and effectiveness of such an approach.The safety of psychotropic use in children is poorly researched, emphasizes the editorialists.
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