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Research Topics on: "PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS" (Subject)

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Books on: "PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS" (Subject)

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Mental Disorders, Medications, and Clinical Social Work

Book by Sonia G. Austrian; Columbia University Press, 2000

Subjects:

Mental Illness--Chemotherapy, Psychiatric Social Work, Psychology, Pathological, Psychotropic Drugs

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

This essential resource, written for social workers by a social worker, discusses the etiology, epidemiology, assessment, and intervention planning for common disorders. Austrian goes beyond a linear classification approach, instead emphasizing a broad bio-psychosocial ecosystems perspective, which ...
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This essential resource, written for social workers by a social worker, discusses the etiology, epidemiology, assessment, and intervention planning for common disorders. Austrian goes beyond a linear classification approach, instead emphasizing a broad bio-psychosocial ecosystems perspective, which takes into account each client's unique situation. In addition to including the most up-to-date information on new medications, biochemical data on disease causes, and diagnostic tests, the thoroughly updated second edition also gives an overview and critique of managed care as it relates to the treatment of mental disorders.
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Consuming Habits: Drugs in History and Anthropology

Book by Jordan Goodman, Paul E. Lovejoy, Andrew Sherratt; Routledge, 1995

Subjects:

Psychotropic Drugs--Cross-Cultural Studies, Psychotropic Drugs--History, Psychotropic Drugs--Social Aspects

Collections: History, Entire Library

Psychoactive substances have been central to the formation of civilizations and the growth of the world economy. Consuming Habits describes how and why:* tea and coffee replaced beer on the breakfast tables of 18th century Europe* in Islamic emirates at the turn of the century kola nuts formed part ...
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Psychoactive substances have been central to the formation of civilizations and the growth of the world economy. Consuming Habits describes how and why:* tea and coffee replaced beer on the breakfast tables of 18th century Europe* in Islamic emirates at the turn of the century kola nuts formed part of tax payments, and were given as gifts by so-called 'big men'* in 1902 opera singers had their doctors prescribe them cocaine to aid singing* the original version of 'coca-cola' was described as a 'brain tonic.'This pioneering collection of original essays explores the rich analytical category of psychoactive substances from challenging historical and anthropological perspectives.
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Your Drug May Be Your Problem: How and Why to Stop Taking Psychiatric Drugs

Book by Peter R. Breggin, David Cohen; Perseus Publishing, 2000

Subjects:

Brain--Effect Of Drugs On--Popular Works, Psychotropic Drugs--Side Effects--Popular Works

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

Psychiatric drugs are prescribed to more than twenty million Americans but can these drugs do more harm than good?
While a doctor may take fifteen minutes to determine the need for a psychiatric drug, the patient may end up taking it for months, years, or a lifetime. We deserve to know the dangers in ...
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Psychiatric drugs are prescribed to more than twenty million Americans but can these drugs do more harm than good?
While a doctor may take fifteen minutes to determine the need for a psychiatric drug, the patient may end up taking it for months, years, or a lifetime. We deserve to know the dangers in advance -- including the difficulties we may encounter when trying to withdraw. Your Drug May Be Your Problem is the only book to provide an up-to-date, uncensored description of the dangers involved in taking every kind of psychiatric medication, and it is the first and only book to explain how to coordinate a safe withdrawal from them.
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Journal Articles on: "PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS" (Subject)

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The COMBINE SAFTEE: A Structured Instrument for Collecting Adverse Events Adapted for Clinical Studies in the Alcoholism Field *

Journal article by Bankole A. Johnson, Nassima Ait-Daoud, John D. Roache; Journal of Studies on Alcohol, Vol. 66, 2005

Subjects:

Adverse drug reactions--Evaluation, Adverse drug reactions--Health aspects, Adverse drug reactions--Research, Alcoholism--Care and treatment, Alcoholism--Research, Clinical trials--Research, Clinical trials--Testing, Drugs--Adverse and side effects, Drugs--Evaluation, Drugs--Health aspects, Drugs--Research, Psychotropic drugs--Usage

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...pharmacological treatments. Despite the fact that tens of thousands of clinical trials have been conducted with the use of psychotropic drugs, there have been few sustained efforts to devise standardized methods for the assessment of adverse events; yet...
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Psychotropic Drug Interactions with Grapefruit Juice

Journal article by Norman L. Keltner, Ifeoma Opara; Perspectives in Psychiatric Care, Vol. 38, 2002

Subjects:

Drug interactions--Risk factors, Grapefruit juice--Health aspects, Psychotropic drugs--Adverse and side effects

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...for a significant number of psychotropic drugs. This drug-metabolizing system...administering, monitoring, and taking psychotropic drugs are serious endeavors. Knowledge...N.L., Folks, D.G. (2001). Psychotropic drugs (3rd ed.). St. Louis: Mosby...
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Social Workers' Attitudes about Psychotropic Drug Treatment with Youths

Journal article by Tally Moses, Stuart A. Kirk; Social Work, Vol. 51, 2006

Subjects:

Psychotropic drugs--Forecasts and trends, Social workers--Behavior, Teenagers--Drug use, Youth--Drug use

Collections: Entire Library

...Social workers views about psychotropic drugs may be associated with both...attitude toward the helpfulness of psychotropic drugs for treating youths. This association...social workers approach to psychotropic drugs. Johnson and colleagues (1998...
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Medicaid Coverage of Newer Psychotropic Medication

Journal article by Meenakshi Venkataraman; Health and Social Work, Vol. 31, 2006

Subjects:

Medicaid--Research, Mental disorders--Care and treatment, Mental disorders--Research, Mental illness--Care and treatment, Mental illness--Research, Mentally ill persons--Care and treatment, Mentally ill persons--Research, Mentally ill--Care and treatment, Mentally ill--Research, Psychotropic drugs--Usage

Collections: Entire Library

...by such disorders. The newer psychotropic drugs introduced in the mid-1990s...than the earlier traditional psychotropic drugs. The overall findings of the...benefit most from the newer psychotropic drugs, yet cannot afford them. This...
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Phantastica: The Chemically Inspired Intellectual in Occult Fiction

Journal article by Brenda Mann Hammack; Mosaic (Winnipeg), Vol. 37, 2004

Subjects:

Psychotropic drugs

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

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Magazine Articles on: "PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS" (Subject)

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Move over Prozac, It's Ecstasy's Turn; Stigmatized as the 'Nightclub Drug,' Some Scientists Are Promoting the Benefits of Ecstasy as a Treatment for Depression. but at What Long-Term Costs to the Brain?

Magazine article by Brandon Spun; Insight on the News, Vol. 18, April 15, 2002

Subjects:

Depression, Mental--Drug therapy, MDMA (Drug)--Research, Prozac (Medication)--Adverse and side effects, Psychotropic drugs--Research

Collections: Entire Library
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The Dark Side of Psychiatric Drugs

Magazine article by Tanya Bibeau; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 122, May 1994

Subjects:

Antidepressants--Adverse and side effects, Prozac (Medication)--Adverse and side effects, Psychotropic drugs--Adverse and side effects, Tranquilizing agents--Adverse and side effects, Tranquilizing drugs--Adverse and side effects

Collections: Entire Library
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Totalitarian Medicine. the Invention of the ADHD Epidemic and the Forced Drugging of Schoolchildren Summon Memories of the Soviet Union

Magazine article by William Norman Grigg; The New American, Vol. 19, August 25, 2003

Subjects:

Psychiatric patients--Analysis, Psychotropic drugs

Collections: Entire Library

...by William Norman Grigg Whatever the rationale, forcing people, particularly children, to take dangerous psychotropic drugs is a totalitarian practice. The use of state-imposed psychiatric treatment--including the forcible administration...
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A Different Kind of Drug War

Magazine article by Kelly Patricia O'Meara; Insight on the News, Vol. 15, December 13, 1999

Subjects:

Children--Behavior, Colorado--Schools, Psychotropic drugs--Adverse and side effects

Collections: Entire Library

...possible adverse effects of psychotropic drugs and to "provide information...background and data about the psychotropic drugs most likely to be prescribed...relationship between violence and psychotropic drugs. "I think," he says, "there...
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The Syndrome That Became an Epidemic: David Boyle Asks Whether Autism, Diagnosed 1,000 per Cent More Than a Decade Ago, Has Become a New Term for Naughty Children and Wonders If the Drug Companies Are Behind It All

Magazine article by David Boyle; New Statesman, Vol. 132, October 6, 2003

Subjects:

Asperger syndrome--Diagnosis, Asperger syndrome--Social aspects, Autism--Diagnosis, Autism--Social aspects, Autism--Statistics, Child psychopathology--Diagnosis, Child psychopathology--Forecasts, Child psychopathology--Social aspects, Psychotropic drugs--Demographic aspects, Psychotropic drugs--Social aspects

Collections: Entire Library

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Newspaper Articles on: "PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS" (Subject)

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The Woman Who Sent Cruise's Film Career Crashing; Hollywood Studio Mogul's Wife Was Outraged by Star's Attack on Brooke

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), August 26, 2006

Subjects:

Broadcasting industry, Cruise, Tom, Psychotropic drugs, Redstone, Sumner M., Viacom Inc.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library
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WHA Misses Target with Competition

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 21, 2006

Subjects:

Psychotropic drugs

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library
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The Dangers of Tom Cruise's Religious Advice, by Top Author; Fury as Star Claims Scientology Is Better for Depression Than Medication

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), December 15, 2005

Subjects:

Cruise, Tom, Depression (Mood disorder)--Drug therapy, Depression, Mental--Drug therapy, Psychotropic drugs

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library
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Psychiatric Drug OK'd for Youths; FDA Approval Seen as Guide to Treatments

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, August 23, 2007

Subjects:

Bipolar disorder--Drug therapy, Child psychopathology--Drug therapy, Childhood mental disorders--Drug therapy, Drug approval, Psychotropic drugs, Risperdal (Medication), Schizophrenia--Drug therapy, Teenagers, Youth

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library
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Top Pupils Who Are Battling Depression

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 12, 2006

Subjects:

Depression (Mood disorder), Depression, Mental, Psychotropic drugs

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

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