Many states have begun to require drug companies to disclose payments they make to doctors for lectures and other services.  After studying the information a pattern has emerged.  Psychiatrists earn more money from drug makers than doctors in any other specialty.

"How this money may be influencing psychiatrists and other doctors has become one of the most contentious issues in health care. For instance, the more psychiatrists have earned from drug makers, the more they have prescribed a new class of powerful medicines known as atypical antipsychotics to children, for whom the drugs are especially risky and mostly unapproved."

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