Aripiprazole, one of the nine drugs approved by the FDA to treat adults. It is also one of the medications being used off-label to treat ADHD in kids.
A third of the kids in foster care diagnosed with ADHD have been treated with off-label antipsychotic drugs. That’s too many children getting medicine we know too little about.
Rachel Blustain won first place in the category of best article on a social issue at the 2014 Ippies coordinated by the Center for Community and Ethnic Media at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.
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