Poor Children Four Times More Likely to Get Antipsychotics
December 14, 2009 @ 12:00 am
New federally financed drug research reveals a stark disparity: children covered by
Medicaid are given powerful antipsychotic medicines at a rate four times higher than children whose parents have private insurance. And the Medicaid children are more likely to receive the drugs for less severe conditions than their middle-class counterparts, the data shows.
