Just because it's newer doesn't mean it's better. This is the message to come from recent studies that have examined the therapeutic effects of the latest generation of antipsychotic medications on children and adolescents. Not only are the remedial effects no better than older generation drugs but patients simply appear to swap one set of side effects for another.
Report author, Dr. Linmarie Sikich, an assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, beli...
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...codeine), psychiatric medicines (e.g., chlorpromazine, risperidone, amitriptyline, trazodone).... Read more »
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