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Psychotropic drug prescribing in a Nigerian psychiatric hospital

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Imafidon O. Agbonile  and
Oluwole Famuyiwa
Imafidon O. Agbonile
Affiliation:
Psychiatric Hospital, Uselu, PMB 1102, Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria
Oluwole Famuyiwa
Affiliation:
Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Nigeria, email fam2005lag@yahoo.com
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Psychopharmacotherapy dominates the therapeutic arsenal of psychiatrists and, not surprisingly, psychotropic drugs are widely consumed in psychiatric practice. The pattern of prescribing of these drugs needs to be appraised in terms of ‘rational drug use', which may be defined as ‘the use of the least number of drugs to obtain the best possible effects in the shortest possible time and at a reasonable cost’ (Gross, 1981).

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International Psychiatry , Volume 6 , Issue 4 , October 2009 , pp. 96 - 98
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