When singer Noah Cyrus first took Xanax, she was just 18 and hoping to bond with her then-boyfriend. But Cyrus quickly entered what she describes as a "dark pit" of being addicted to the substance.

Psychopharmacology is the study of the use of medications in treating mental disorders. Generally, any physician or psychiatrist who treats patients with psychotropic medication is considered a ...

A federal judge on Monday ruled that the government must obtain parental or guardian consent before administering psychotropic drugs—those that can affect the brain or behavior—to migrant children in ...

Advancements in the field of neuroscience have pulled back the curtain into what was once the dark and mysterious subject of mental illnesses. Thanks to science, today we have an understanding ...

January 5, 2010 — US psychiatrists are increasingly using combinations of psychotropic agents — many of which have not been proven efficacious — to treat patients in office-based practices, new ...

Foster care youth are prescribed psychotropic medications at a rate 2.7 to 4.5 times higher than nonfoster children on Medicaid, according to a 2011 audit of five states conducted by the United States ...

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 ...

Over the last few years, I’ve described the many cases in which chance observations, often made by persons looking for something else, led to the discovery of psychiatric drugs. Frank Berger, for ...

An audit conducted this summer revealed that children in Florida's foster care system are being prescribed powerful psychotropic medications at alarmingly high rates. In many cases, state child ...

Many of the psychiatric medications have side effects. Weight gain is a common one. Atypical or second-generation antipsychotics are notorious for causing weight gain. Atypical antipsychotics are ...

ATLANTA — The trees are blooming and so are allergies. One allergy sufferer reached out to our 11Alive Verify team, wanting to know more about over the counter medicine Benadryl and its potential side ...

A judge ruled that the government must get consent before giving them to migrant kids A federal judge on Monday ruled that the government must obtain parental or guardian consent before administering ...