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The prescription of psychotropic drugs in adolescence is an act of care that gives rise to reflection in terms of signification for both the adolescent and the prescriber. A new generation of psychotropes has upset the habits of prescribers. Nosographic clinical practice must therefore combine with psychopathological clinical practice so that medication becomes a “tool of freedom” by permitting the subject to benefit from the “psychotropic” capacity of the medication, thanks to the “magic of words.”