From across the Atlantic: US Children in poverty are more likely to be prescribed antipsychotics

Duff Wilson's article in NYT: the disparity between children on medicaid and on private insurance with regard to the incidence of prescriptions for antipsychotic drugs. This includes young children: as Duff notes, "The data indicated that more than 4 percent of patients ages 6 to 17 in Medicaid fee-for-service programs received antipsychotic drugs, compared with less than 1 percent of privately insured children and adolescents. More recent data through 2007 indicates that the disparity has remained, said Stephen Crystal, a Rutgers professor who led the study."