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Rational prescribing of psychotropic medicines

The progressive development of effective psychotropic medicines over the past 50 years has undoubtedly revolutionised the care of people with a mental illness, so that they now have a very important role in modern health care. Increasingly, however, concern is being expressed in a number of countrie...

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Autor principal: Ghodse, Hamid
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2004
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6733067/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31507688
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spelling pubmed-67330672019-09-10 Rational prescribing of psychotropic medicines Ghodse, Hamid Int Psychiatry Editorial The progressive development of effective psychotropic medicines over the past 50 years has undoubtedly revolutionised the care of people with a mental illness, so that they now have a very important role in modern health care. Increasingly, however, concern is being expressed in a number of countries about the excessive use of these medications (International Narcotics Control Board, 2001, 2004). The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2004-07-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6733067/ /pubmed/31507688 Text en © 2004 The Royal College of Psychiatrists http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Non-Commercial, No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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