The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will be increasing its oversight of the use of psychotropic drugs to pay closer attention to certain classes, warned the lead author of a federal report ...

Several characteristics of mental disorders, psychotropic drugs, and the structure of the mental health care financing system are likely to influence the potential effectiveness of formularies at ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . More than one-third of children on Medicaid in the foster care system were prescribed psychotropic medications, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . New data suggest an increase in concurrent, or combination, prescribing of second-generation antipsychotics with ...

Following two key federal initiatives to reduce overreliance on antipsychotic medications in nursing homes, declining exposure has occurred evenly across resident racial and ethnic groups, according ...

Adult prescribing has steadily increased across four major psychotropic classes. [13] The journal Pharmaceuticals warns of SSRI dependence and withdrawal, affecting 55–65% of users. [14] In 2023, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Colorado lags other states that established policies years ago to reduce the use of powerful psychotropic drugs by children in foster care. Since 1992, ...

An increase in the concurrent prescribing of second-generation antipsychotics (SGA) – typically used to treat severe mental disorders – with other psychotropic medications among Medicaid-enrolled ...

Dr Juanita Westbury is leading the Reducing Use of Sedatives in Aged Care Facilities (RedUSe) project which is funded by the Australian Government Department of Social Services under the Aged Care ...

The effects on patients and payers of using incentive formularies for psychotropic drugs are unclear at this point. In particular, we do not know how effective formularies are at controlling rising ...