IN SPITE OF the array of drugs promoted for the therapy of nervous and mental disorders, the physician need not be unduly confused. These many compounds have only a few distinct pharmacological actions. By becoming thoroughly familiar with 1 or 2 drugs of each pharmacological type, the physician...
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adults with a serious mental illness reported illicit drug dependence or abuse within the past year. This statistic depicts the percentage of illicit drug dependence or abuse among adults in the United States as of 2023, sorted by level of mental illness....
The differences have important implications for the stigma still attached tomental illness, says Dr Foster. "It is hard to argue that the general public should see mental health problems in the same light as any other health problem when it seems clear that this is not always happening in the...
The association between violence and serious mental illness (SMI)—schizophrenia, other psychotic disorder, bipolar disorder, or major depressive disorder—was ex... EB Elbogen,PA Dennis,SC Johnson - SAGE Publications 被引量: 4发表: 2016年 Screening for Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) in Prima...
This article reviews the literature on the prevalence of mental and substance use disorders among persons living with HIV/AIDS. Drug use, both injection and non-injection, substantially increases the risk for HIV infection. While injection drug users have the highest prevalence rates for HIV, substa...
Specifically, drug repositioning, which relies on testing drugs already in use for a disease to treat another illness based on the shared molecular pathology of both11, may be applied to treat PNDs (ref. 12). Network medicine13 is an emerging field that combines systems biology and network ...
Impact of alcohol, drug abuse and mental health treatment on medical care utilization. A review of the research literature. This monograph reviews and assesses twenty-five studies that examined the question of whether treatment for mental illness, alcohol abuse or drug abuse reduces subsequent medical...
Journalist Robert Whitaker is more concerned than ever that psychiatric medications do more harm than good
At Feighner, the study design frequently involves a double-blind crossover--patients may start on a conventional drug for their mental illness but later are switched to the new drug so the two can be compared in the same patients.