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Why are so many doctors are prescribing antipsychotic drugs to Medicaid-eligible children?

By SharperIron on Wed, 08/14/13
Society & Culture
Mental Illness
Medicaid
Poverty

“[C]hildren on Medicaid are four times more likely to be on antipsychotics than privately insured children.”

Does poverty make kids mentally ill?

Related . . .

Topics: Counseling, Mental Illness, SBC
  • Southern Baptist church leaders voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to approve a resolution on "Mental Health Concerns and the Heart of God"
  • "[N]early half of evangelical, fundamentalist, or born-again... believe prayer and Bible study alone can overcome serious mental illness."
  • A significant percentage of pastors aspire to address mental illness, but how many actually do?
  • Stetzer: "Mental illness is not a subject Christians should run from."
  • “My hope is that we in the church can understand wounds of the soul well enough that we move beyond the stigma we have associated with ‘mental’ illness.”

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