• J F Goldberg.
• Department of Psychiatry, Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, USA.
• Emerg. Med. Clin. North Am. 2000 May 1; 18 (2): 211viii211-31, viii.

AbstractRecent years have witnessed the rapid expansion of new psychotropic agents and psychotropic applications of primarily nonpsychiatric medications in nearly all domains of psychopathology. Increasingly, patients in emergency departments may be taking newer-generation antidepressants, antipsychotics, and mood-stabilizing drugs, and individuals with treatment-resistant psychiatric disorders are often prescribed complex, polypharmaceutical regimens. Current information on the use of psychiatric medications that have entered widespread use in the past 5 to 10 years is reviewed, with focus on indications and dosing, comparisons with older medications, management of patients with overdoses and toxicity states, and the medical and psychiatric effects of newer drugs on patients who may present to emergency departments.

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