Medications may reduce violent crime risk in those with mental illness

Wednesday, May 7, 2014 - 22:10 in Health & Medicine

For people with severe psychiatric illness, taking an antipsychotic medication appears to drive down the risk of engaging in criminal violence, a large study has found. And for patients diagnosed with bipolar disorder, a mood-stabilizing medication has the same effect. Those findings,...

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