Poor Children Likelier to Get Antipsychotics

“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.”
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[http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/12/health/12medicaid.html?_r=7&hp].
The New York Times, December 12, 2009

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