About half of Medicaid-covered children and adolescents in Ohio who are in treatment for depression complete their first three months of prescribed antidepressants, and only one-fifth complete the recommended minimum six-month course of drugs to treat depression, new research suggests. Among those at the highest risk for not completing treatment are adolescents -- as opposed to younger children -- and minority youths, particularly African Americans, according to the analysis of Medicaid prescription data over a three-year period.

Source: Only one In five Medicaid-covered kids in Ohio finish antidepressant treatment