Aim The White Paper on Crime 2019 from the Japanese Ministry of Justice reported that the percentage of crimes committed by people with mental disabilities was only 1.0%.
Akihiro Nishio
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Psychotropic Drug Use in São Paulo, Brazil--An Epidemiological Survey. [PDF]
To estimate the prevalence of one month psychotropic drug use in São Paulo, Brazil, and to assess the gap treatment between the presence of mental disorders and psychotropic drug users.A probabilistic sample of non-institutionalized individuals from the ...
Maria Ines Quintana+7 more
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The role of biotransformation processes in mediating interactions between psychotropic drugs and natural products [PDF]
Many patients are not aware that natural products such as fruit juices or plant infusions can cause significant interactions with several drugs, some of which can be dangerous, especially when the medical treatment is for neurological or psychiatric ...
Bacinschi, Nicolae+6 more
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Discontinuing psychotropic drug treatment
Interruption of ongoing treatment with benzodiazepines, antidepressants, antipsychotics and mood stabilisers including lithium can be followed by clinically significant withdrawal reactions within hours or days, as well as later increases in relapses or ...
Leonardo Tondo, Ross J. Baldessarini
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Initiation of Psychotropic Medication after Partner Bereavement: A Matched Cohort Study [PDF]
Background Recent changes to diagnostic criteria for depression in DSM-5 remove the bereavement exclusion, allowing earlier diagnosis following bereavement.
A Bourke+27 more
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BACKGROUND: The worldwide prevalences of anxiety and depressive disorders are 3.6% and 4.4%, respectively. Among medical students, many studies have indicated that the prevalences of these mental disorders vary between 19.7% and 47.1%, but there is a ...
Nicoli Abrão Fasanella+5 more
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Reducing psychotropic drug use in nursing homes in Belgium : an implementation study for the roll-out of a practice improvement initiative [PDF]
Background and Objective: Psychotropic drug use is high in nursing homes in Belgium. A practice improvement initiative (including education, professional support and the transition towards person-centred care) achieved significant reductions in ...
Christiaens, Thierry+5 more
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Doctor or drug dealer? International legal provisions for the legitimate handling of drugs of abuse [PDF]
© The Author(s) 2020. The final, definitive version of this paper has been published in: Gallagher, C. T., Atik, S. K., Isse, L., & Mann, S. K. (2020). Doctor or drug dealer?
Atik, Sanaa+3 more
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Psychotropic Drug Initiation or Increased Dosage and the Acute Risk of Falls: A Prospective Cohort Study of Nursing Home Residents [PDF]
Background: Previous studies suggest that psychotropic drug changes may signal an acute period of time whereby a person is highly vulnerable to fall. It is unknown whether certain classes of psychotropic agents are less safe with respect to the acute ...
Berry, Sarah Dyer+4 more
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Incidence and drug treatment of emotional distress after cancer diagnosis : a matched primary care case-control study [PDF]
Notes This work is published under the standard license to publish agreement. After 12 months the work will become freely available and the license terms will switch to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.Peer ...
A J Lee+33 more
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