Taking Multiple Medications? You May Need to Scale Back.Polypharmacy is common among older adults, increasing risks of side effects, drug interactions, memory decline, falls, hospitalization, and unnecessary medications due to lack of coordination among medical providers.
More Young People Are on Multiple Psychiatric Drugs, Study FindsGrowing numbers of children and adolescents are being prescribed multiple psychiatric drugs simultaneously, despite limited safety data.In Maryland, there was a 9.5% increase in the prevalence of polypharmacy (taking three or more classes of psychiatric medications) among young people from 2015 to 2020.