Evelyn Pringle, Truthout: "Prescriptions for psychiatric
drugs increased 50 percent with children in the US, and 73
percent among adults, from 1996 to 2006, according to a
study in the May/June 2009 issue of the journal Health
Affairs. Another study in the same issue of Health Affairs
found spending for mental health care grew more than 30
percent over the same ten-year period, with almost all of
the increase due to psychiatric drug costs."
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