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DRUGS
Teen Cannabis Use Linked to Serious Mental Health Diagnoses Later in Life
Tracking 460,000 teens with no prior mental health problems, researchers found those who used cannabis faced sharply higher rates of serious psychiatric diagnoses by young adulthood.
MENTAL HEALTH
One in Four Dementia Patients Prescribed Lethal Psychiatric Drugs, According to First-of-Its-Kind Study
A new large-scale study scrutinizing psychiatric prescribing finds clinicians continue to give high-risk drugs to Medicare dementia patients—most of the time with no documented justification at all.
