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Children and the Prescribing of Psychotropic Drugs

in the past (Goode, 2003). Research reveals pediatricians and child psychiatrists seem to be turning to pharmacological interventi...

Young Victims of Suicide and Depression

and adolescents (Mahler, 2005). Of every twenty children, in fact, one has struggled with severe depression at one point or anoth...

Issues With Antipsychotic Medications

You provided a good explanation of first-generation and second-generation antipsychotics. To add to the discussion: A number of st...

Opposing Ritalin Prescription

very controversial and many say that children are "doped" which is a chemical alternative to treating the real problem ("Britain" ...

Nonadherence to Medical Instructions: Walker and Avant

issue via conceptual analysis, inasmuch as Walker and Avant provide specific steps that allow one to wholly define the ambiguous a...

Kant, Ethics, Drug Companies, and Drug Sales

as it impedes upon the fundamental tenets of social responsibility. Doctors who accept these gifts - which might include but is n...

Overuse of Psychotropic Drugs in the United States

An overview of why psychotropic drugs are overprescribed and overused in America is presented in a report consisting of ten pages....

Medications for Mental Illness

consent. This presents many problems that begin with whether or not the psychiatrist should tell the patient or guardian every sin...

Schools and Mandatory Psychotropic Drug Use

as analyzing and evaluating the issues involved. This examination will show that the new legal directives in regards to Ritalin us...

Should The United States Legalize Medical Marijuana Use?

of such states as Montana (Anonymous, 2005), Rhode Island (Roman, 2006) as well as Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Ne...

Research on Polypharmacy and Elderly

with chronic conditions to live longer, despite the presence of these conditions. However, the pharmaceutical innovations that mak...

Common Medications and Their Patient Information, Procedural Recommendations, and Side Effects

In forty two pages this paper examines drugs that are commonly prescribed for various conditions in a consideration of monitoring ...

Medicalization Of Depression

the symptoms for diagnosing clinical depression. There must be at least five symptoms from the list that have lasted for at least ...

Phenytoin: Pathophysiological Condition

its efficacy and easy dispensability by pill, liquid or injection. In addition, its side effect rating is better than the other a...

Psychologists and Drug Prescribing Privileges

In ten pages this report assesses whether or not prescribing drugs to clients should be a privilege enjoyed by psychologists in a ...

Issues Concerning Prescribed Drugs

physical. And, as stated, taken as directed, there is very low risk of negative side effects of any kind. 3. Anti-psychotics As ...

Should New Drugs Be Labelled As ‘New’ To Indicate A Higher Risk Than Established Dugs?

funds used to ensure drug safety focused in the approval of new drugs. After a drug is approved there are few quality reports unde...

Hydrocodone Abuse

of Schedule III and, thereby, removes many of the usage restrictions. "Vicodin, Lortab--and more than 200 other products that con...

Crystal Meth: Effects On Teens And Adults

use as of the early 1980s and continues to be one of the most commonly abused street drugs (Methamphetamine). Results from the 20...

Children's Use of Antidepressants

In six pages the growing practice of children and adolescents using antidepressants is discussed in terms of the controversy and w...

Psychotropics in Practice

been established. There are concerns about long-term use, however (Davidson, Connor and Zhang, 2009). This means the clinician nee...

Depression Treatment: Annotated Bibliography

This also is a literature review, one that focuses on an evidence-based approach to determining the value of prescribing psychoact...

Ritalin, Pro & Con

vision problems or learning disabilities or "whether a childs behavior is simply immature or exuberant" ("Attention" 77). Accurate...

Drug Therapy-Statins

bodies to produce an excessive amount of cholesterol (Statins safe, 2004). Left untreated, this condition is associated with havin...

Adverse Drug Reaction Among Elderly Patients: Impact Upon Costs And Length Of Hospital Stay

population want to be able to take care of themselves, yet they are rarely given the tools with which to accomplish this objective...

Economic Principles Applied to Pharmaceutical Companies

fewer people able to afford the goods. The converse is also true, as process fall then there is usually an increase in demand, as ...

Mothers And Drugs: How A Child's Life Is Impacted When She Is An Addict

of crack cocaine overwhelmingly demonstrate that premature delivery, low birth weight and retardation as three of the primary affl...

Substance use in the Boroughs

Drug abuse, regardless of the type of drug, has a very negative effect on the body and brain of the user and abuser. Chemicals fro...

Drug Problems as a Social Construct

life-threatening..." (Merta, 2001, p.1). In Time magazine, Lopez (1999) reports on one police officers journey through the drug c...