Youth In Foster Care System More Likely To Be Prescribed Two Or More Psychiatric Medications Than Other Youth Covered By Medicaid, Researchers Say

Psychiatric News (8/23) reports, “Youth in the foster care system are more likely to be prescribed two or more psychiatric medications than other youth covered by Medicaid,” investigators in a study that “included 719,908 youth in foster care and 31,473,608 youth covered by Medicaid who were not in foster care.” The findingswere published online Aug. 21 in a research letter in the journal JAMA Pediatrics.

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— “Youth in Foster Care More Likely Than Peers to Be Prescribed Multiple Psychiatric Medications, Psychiatric News , August 23, 2023