A growing bubble of young brains are being subjected to potential unknown, long-term implications, 'concerning' new study warns. 9News
Associate professor Luke Grzeskowiak said "one of the key" trends the study exposed was the number of children being prescribed psychotropics for the first time, and the length of time kids were staying on those drugs after beginning treatment.
"You're subjecting young brains to medicines for long periods of time, and we don't truly know what the long-term implications are of that." While the increasing trajectories of psychotropic use was "not entirely unexpected" given the impact of the pandemic and other societal factors, Grzeskowiak said there were "definitely concerning elements" to emerge from the data.
"There's the concern, I guess, that once people are started, there's a reluctance to take these things away, or the health system is so burdened that no one has a chance to sit down and go, 'Is this still needed or still appropriate?'"
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