http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/509857?src=mp

Psychiatric Polypharmacy in Children on the Rise

By Karla Gale

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Aug 01 - The practice of prescribing
multiple psychotropic medications to children and adolescents has
increased over the last decade, results of a literature review
suggest. However, research into this treatment strategy has failed to
keep pace, leaving open the potential for serious adverse drug-drug
interactions.

"Drug augmentation therapy is common clinical practice among adults,"
study co-author Dr. Joseph V. Penn said in an interview with Reuters
Health, and there has been a "trickle-down effect" to children and
adolescents, despite the absence of scientific research to support the
practice.

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