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News > Children & Young people

HeadMeds giving information about medication

11 May 2015

HeadMeds is a unique website about mental health medication for young people created by YoungMinds. Funded by Comic Relief and the Nominet Trust as part of Innovation Labs which has developed a range of digital projects to improve young people’s mental health.