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1 University of Manchester, Lecturer in Psychiatry; Consultant Psychiatrist, Crumpsall Hospital, Manchester, MS 6RB
An analysis of the treatments prescribed to three different groups of patients suffering from depression suggests that psychotropic drugs are often used inappropriately in general practice. This view is confirmed by the opinions expressed by a group of general practitioners who were also questioned. The reasons for drug defaulting by patients were also explored.
It is suggested that in the setting of urban general practice the potential for the traditional family-doctor-patient relationship is strictly limited, and that in practice the interest in, and knowledge of, psychiatry and psychotropic drugs is relatively small.
Submitted on August 6, 1973
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