PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS—ARE THEY JUSTIFIED?
- 1 March 1974
- journal article
- review article
- Published by AMPCo in The Medical Journal of Australia
- Vol. 1 (13) , 474-479
- https://doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.1974.tb50847.x
Abstract
Med. J. Aust., 1974, 1: 474‐479. A brief review of the evidence supporting the efficacy of psychotropic drugs is presented. This does not justify the current, extensive, uncritical prescription of th...Keywords
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