Part I: Presentation and Development of the Controversial Issue Medication has been one of the greatest tools for the health care and psychological field to help treat mental patients with their psychological abnormalities. However, over the past decade, mental health professionals and researchers have seen an increase in the number of prescriptions given to patients in the United States, especially to children. With that in mind, do we or don't we overmedicate mental patients in …showed first 75 words of 1227 total…

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