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Psychoactive Drug UsePatterns Found in Samples From a Mental Health Clinic and a General Medical Clinic
Louis A. Gottschalk, MD;
Daniel E. Bates, MA;
Ruth A. Fox, MD;
John M. James
Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1971;25(5):395-397.
Abstract
New patients coming to a mental health crisis clinic (N = 65) and a general medical care clinic (N = 48) were surveyed before admission for on-going psychoactive druguse (tranquilizers, antidepressants, analgesics, sedatives, psychomotor stimulants, and autonomic drugs), whether these drugs were obtained by prescription, from relatives or friends, or over-the-counter. The crisis clinic survey revealed that 66% of the patients were taking some kind of psychoactive medication, and these patients had significantly poorer average ego strength scores than those not on such drugs. The medical care clinic survey revealed 65% were using some kind of psychoactive medication. Comparison of the two samples showed crisis clinic patients were taking significantly more tranquilizers and significantly fewer analgesic and autonomic drugs.
Author Affiliations
Irvine, Calif
From the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, College of Medicine, University of California, Irvine.
Footnotes
Accepted for publication Nov 30, 1970.
Read before the annual meeting of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, San Diego, Calif, Feb 25, 1970.
Reprint requests to Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, College of Medicine, University of California, Irvine 92664 (Dr. Gottschalk).
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