Saturday, September 20, 2014

Before prescribing antipsychotic drugs to foster children, California doctors will soon need authorization

Before prescribing antipsychotic drugs to foster children, California doctors will soon need authorization

In a significant step toward curbing the overuse of psychiatric drugs in California’s foster care system, doctors will soon be required to get extra authorization to prescribe antipsychotics, a new safeguard to protect some of the state’s most overmedicated children.

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