Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced federal efforts to limit overprescribing and support deprescribing of psychiatric drugs, ...

RFK Jr. unveiled a new HHS initiative targeting overuse of psychiatric medications, especially among children, as part of a ...

When I first started taking an antidepressant as a teenager, no one talked to me or my parents about how I might eventually stop. Instead, the conversation was entirely centered on finding and ...

With Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. aiming to rein in the use of psychiatric drugs, psychiatrists are preemptively ...

Use of medications for mental health and behavioral conditions among children and young adults increased steadily for two decades, and about one in four young people taking these medicines were ...

The Department of Health and Human Services yesterday announced an action plan on psychiatric prescribing, including efforts ...

The bill would require VA providers to follow the same informed‑consent protocols for psychiatric medications.

MDMA is part of a new wave of psychoactive drugs that show great potential for treating conditions such as severe depression and PTSD. But not everyone is convinced. And even if such drugs gain FDA ...

Ideally, both parents should be involved, Dr. Walkup advises. “If you are doing a major intervention, like starting an 8-year-old on a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) or a 6-year-old on ...

Pills. by Fillmore Photography for WMNF News. A bill introduced in the Florida Senate would require medical examiners to conduct screenings to test for psychotropic drugs on suspects of a mass ...