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Part of the reason for all the hurry-up drugging, say psychiatrists, is managed care, which, already disinclined to pay for longer, more costly talk therapy, is equally reluctant to foot the bill to make sure patients on pills are well monitored. In a perfect--or at least better--world, says Elliott, parents considering meds for their kids would have access not to one specialist but three: a pediatrician, a behavioral pediatrician and a child-adolescent psychiatrist. "Insurance companies talk about second opinions," he says, "but they don't actually like them...
...studies, the agency now grants an extension of six months of exclusive marketing rights to any company engaging in studies of a drug's effects on a minimum of 100 children for more than six months. "It's a relatively small amount of data," acknowledges Dr. Thomas Laughren, a psychiatrist with the FDA's psychopharmacology division, "but it's better than what we had before, which was nothing...
Wrinn noted that Hyman, a psychiatrist who directed the National Institute of Mental Health before becoming provost two years ago, is an expert in the field...
Kadison, the psychiatrist who leads UHS’s mental health department, wrote in a e-mail that while he “will personally miss” Semuels, many of her projects will be taken over by others such as Koretz, the new assistant provost...
Lorraine D. Siggins, the chief psychiatrist at Yale University Health Services, joined Tree and Leshner on the panel and spoke about the remarkable recent increase in mental health cases at universities...