While the metabolic risks associated with antipsychotic medications use are now well known, finding some actual numbers about the risk have been slow to come. A recent study by Nielsen and colleagues published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry offers some specific numbers that can be used when discussing […]
The Link Between Adolescent Psychiatric Disorders and Crime
Are people with mental illness more likely to commit crimes? This question has been studied and discussed for decades, fueled by movies of deranged serial killers. For years, the conventional wisdom was that, despite the hype, individuals who suffer from psychiatric disorders are no more likely than anyone else to commit a crime. More recently, […]