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Increased prescribing of psychotropic medication for children and adolescents during the COVID‐19 pandemic: no cause for alarm

Alain Braillon and Wendy A Rogers
Med J Aust 2023; 219 (6): . || doi: 10.5694/mja2.52071
Published online: 18 September 2023

To the Editor: We find Hazell's editorial troubling.1 In it, Hazell concludes that “rather than inappropriate, it [the increased prescription of psychotropic medications for children and adolescents during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic] was an example of the system working as it should”. It is unclear how the author could reach this conclusion based on the two articles2,3 cited in the editorial.

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