U.S. If a kid has a behavioral disorder then behavioral treatment, not psychotropics should be the first order of treatment

Two front page articles in today’s New York Times are of particular significance addressing both quality of care and expenditure.
1. “Revising Book on Disorders of the Mind” by Benedict Carey, reveals that the bipolar diagnosis for children and the prescribing of toxic antipsychotics for children will be delegitimized in the revised diagnostic manual in psychiatry, [...]

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