This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Reply to article  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citation map  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Citing articles on Web of Science (3)  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

Effects in Chronic Psychiatric Outpatient Users

DANIEL N. WIENER, PhD; PHILIP FEINBERG, MD; I. J. NAGOBADS., MD; F. WESTENDORF, MD; P. W. WARREN; ST. PAUL

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1963;9(5):513-519.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

Concern about prolonged use of tranquilizing drugs has increased as the time they have been on the market has stretched into years. Whatever temporary effects such drugs might have on patients, there has been little systematic evaluation of the impact of continuing treatment indefinitely with them, or of the possibility of eliminating them if they seem to produce no results or if a substitute type of treatment is available.

Several studies have been done bearing on the results of long-term use of tranquilizers and subsequent withdrawal. Some studies^9.11 indicate no appreciable difference between patients who continue on tranquilizers and those who do not. Other studies^2,4,6,10 conclude that there is adjudged need to continue the use of tranquilizers with chronic schizophrenic patients, at least on an intermittent basis.⁸

The methodology differs in the various studies. Most of them^1,4,9,10 substitute placebo for . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Veterans Administration Mental Hygiene Clinic.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication July 11, 1963.

Complete table and significance levels can be obtained by writing to the first listed author.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?