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Psychotropic drugs in a hospital for intellectual disability: the story of 18 years
- Author:
- ETHERINGTON J.
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Handicap Research, 8(3), 1995, pp.184-193.
- Publisher:
- BIMH Publications
Psychotropic prescribing was surveyed over an 18-year period in an intellectual disability hospital between 1972 and 1990. The article looks at the number of inpatients in the hospital, the numbers receiving psychotropic drugs, and the percentage of the population receiving neuroleptics and lithium. Concludes that the changes in prescribing may be partly related to the increased proportion of individuals with more severe psychiatric symptomatology in the population.