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Article: Psychotropic drug interactions reviewed.
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- Health & Medicine Week
- Article date:
- May 24, 2004
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2004 MAY 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers review psychotropic drug interactions in a recent issue of General Hospital Psychiatry.
"Psychotropic drugs are not necessarily the drugs of psychiatry. Seventy percent of antidepressants, and 90% of anxiolytics are prescribed by nonpsychiatric physicians. Since psychotropic medications are so frequently employed by nonpsychiatric physicians (e.g., neurologists, primary care physicians, internists) and because large numbers of their patients are concurrently on medical drugs for somatic reasons, the interactions of psychotropic versus medical drugs and psychotropic versus psychotropic drugs as listed below ...