These "Trends" are Just Plain Scary

"Objective: To examine national trends and patterns in antipsychotic treatment of youth seen by physicians in office-based medical practice.
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"Results: In the United States, the estimated number of office-based visits by youth that included antipsychotic treatment increased from approximately 201,000 in 1993 to 1,224,000 in 2002. …"

—From an abstract of the article, "National Trends in the Outpatient Treatment of Children and Adolescents With Antipsychotic Drugs," by Mark Olfson, MD, MPH; Carlos Blanco, MD, PhD; Linxu Liu, PhD; Carmen Moreno, MD; Gonzalo Laje, MD, Archives of General Psychiatry, Vol. 63 No. 6, June 2006