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  • Title: [Use of psychotropic drugs in mentally handicapped adults].
    Author: Meins W.
    Journal: Psychiatr Prax; 1988 Nov; 15(6):218-22. PubMed ID: 3237896.
    Abstract:
    Type and frequency of psychotropic drug treatment have been analysed in the case of 1154 institutionalized and non-institutionalized mentally retarded adults. The psychotropic drug prevalence amounts to 21.7%, only about one half of corresponding rates in other studies; possible causes of this result are discussed. Neuroleptics are prescribed most frequently by far, succeeded by anxiolytics. The psychotropic drug prevalence is significantly related to age, sex, and setting. A comparison of the psychotropic drug treatment of 1980 with that of 1986 above all shows a distinctly rarer prescription of anxiolytics and hypnotics as well as a decrease of polypharmacy in 1986.
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