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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Mar 13.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Psychiatry. 2014 Dec 4;172(3):237–248. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2014.13101355

Table 2.

Frequency Of Prescription Of Major Medication Classes1

Medication class Number of subjects prescribed a class Percent of all subjects
No medication 48 11.9%
Only medications for general medical conditions 3 0.7%
Antipsychotics 337 83.4%
Antidepressants 129 31.9%
Mood stabilizer 37 9.2%
Anti-anxiety agent 42 10.4%
Sedative hypnotic 20 5.0%
Opiate analgesics 7 1.7%
Opioid replacement addiction medications 2 0.5%
Stimulants 5 1.2%
Non-stimulant ADHD medication 1 0.2%
α2 adrenergic agonist 3 0.7%
1

subjects could be prescribed more than 1 agent in a class