1 in 4 young people using psychotropic drugs are taking dangerous combinations

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Use of medications for mental health and behavioral conditions among children and young adults increased steadily for two decades, and about one in four young people taking these medicines were prescribed a combination that carries a risk of serious drug interactions, according to researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. They published their findings in the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.

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