Psych headlines dominates the news today. The NY Times explores the increased use of antipsychotics in kids:
The explosion in the use of drugs, some experts said, can be traced in part to the growing number of children and adolescents whose problems are given psychiatric labels once reserved for adults and to doctors’ increasing comfort with a newer generation of drugs for psychosis.
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