Psychotropic Drugs

Alzheimer's and Psychoactive Medications -- A Controversial Decision for Caregivers

Marie Marley | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Behavioral Problems, Caregiving, Dementia, Antidepressants, Psychotropic Drugs, Alzheimer's, Psychoactive Drugs, Emotional Problems, Caregiver, Delusions, Antipsychotics, Medication for Alzheimer's, Alzheimer's Disease Medication, Alzheimer's Medication, Alzheimer's Medications, Healthy Living News
Marie Marley

Many people refuse to even consider having their loved on put on any psychotropic medication for any reason. And that's understandable. But today's medications, which can be given in doses that don't overly sedate patients, can also be effective and improve a patient's overall quality of life.

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Medicating Foster Kids: Not the Travesty It Seems?

Kaitlin Bell Barnett | Posted 02.08.2012

Read More: Meds, Psychiatry, Foster Children, Drugs, Medication, Foster Kids, Psychotropic Drugs, Mental Health, Foster System, Health News, Government Accountability Office, Healthy Living News
Kaitlin Bell Barnett

The reality about foster children and medication is far more complicated than it appears in the political theater of a congressional hearing, or in television news shots of sad-looking, adorable kids set to tug-at-your-heartstrings music.

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Lawyers Back In Court Over Tucson Shooting Suspect's Meds

AP | WALTER BERRY | Posted 09.27.2011

Read More: Gun Violence, Springfield, Tuscon Shooting, Schizophrenia, Psychotropic Drugs, Gabrielle Giffords, Tuscon Arizona, Jared Lee Loughner, Crime News

PHOENIX — Lawyers for Tucson shooting rampage suspect Jared Lee Loughner asked a federal court again Wednesday to stop his forcible medication a...

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Does College Stress Breed Success?

Alexia Parks | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Depression, Longevity, Educators, Medical, Attention Disorder, Holmes-Rahe Life Stress Inventory, Stress, Success, Education, Bipolar Disorder, College, Well-Being, Health, Psychiatrist, Psychotropic Drugs, New York Times, Stanford, Health Care, College News
Alexia Parks

Could it be that the psychiatrists who developed a definitive stress test forgot to interview students at home during the school holidays?

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Psychotropic Drugs: Parameter Introduced For Children And Adolescents

medicalnewstoday.com | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Mental Health, Children, Health, Psychotropic Drugs, Adolescents, Psychiatric Drugs, Psychology, Children's Health, Medicine, Practice Parameter on the Use of Psychotropic Medication in Children and Adolescents., Healthy Living News

The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) is proud to announce its new practice parameter on the use of psychotropic medications...

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Pharmaceutical Drug Pushers Lead to National Overdose

Francesca Biller-Safran | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Children, Woody Allen, Clinical Depression, Mother's Little Helper, Human Condition, Medicine Cabinets, Prozac, Ambien, Medications, Overdose, Faulty Diagnoses, Larry King, Campbell Soup, Bi-Polar, Nike, Coke, Psychotropic Drugs, Law and Order, Newsweek, Monet, Lincoln, Lipitor, Depression, Billie Holiday, Adhd, George Orwell, The New York Times, World War 2, Diagnoses, Pharmacies, Erection, Rodney Dangerfield, Pharmaceutical Industry, Victor Hugo, Priapism, Add, Lunesta, Beethoven, Botox, The Marx Brothers, Viagra, Vioxx, Insomnia, Painkillers, Valium, Zanax, Politics News
Francesca Biller-Safran

I only hope that some woman is lucky enough to be with a man who becomes afflicted with one side effect Viagra claims, a condition known as priapism, ...

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