Only 63.7% of adolescents reported that they had ever heard of the morning-after pill, and 12% of those adolescents reported having used it themselves
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Up to 12% of mothers experience depressive symptoms. Children whose parents reported parental depressive symptoms had an 18% increased risk of an emergency department visit and a 36% increased risk of a school absence.
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Today, more and more low- and moderate-income working families (earning 100–400 percent of the Federal Poverty Level) are shifting their children to public insurance.
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85% of youth who used antipsychotics received these medications concurrently with another psychotropic medication class.
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