Blood Thiamine and Nicotinic Acid Levels in Alcoholism and Confusional States
- 1 April 1967
- journal article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 113 (497) , 387-393
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.113.497.387
Abstract
It has been routine psychiatric practice in recent years to prescribe vitamins in alcoholism and confusional states and sometimes in other organic psychoses. The doses given are massive, varying from about ten to twenty times those strictly necessary in deficiency states. This empirical therapy is supported neither by controlled trials nor by direct evidence of vitamin deficiency.Keywords
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