OPINION: Recent Study Critical of Psychotropic Prescribing in the Elderly May Belie Real World Treatment

By |2021-11-11T17:14:40-08:00February 14th, 2017|Brief Bulletins from the Field, We Know Psychiatry|

The number of retirement-age Americans taking at least three psychiatric drugs more than doubled between 2004 and 2013, even though almost half of them had no mental health diagnosis on record, according to a new study published in JAMA Internal Medicine and reported in today's New York Times. The new [...]