Psychotropic drugs are an important family of compounds from a medical point of view. Their application in therapy requires methods for the determination in pharmaceutical dosage forms and body fluids. Several methods for their analysis have been reported in the literature. Among the methods, spectrophotometric and electrochemical are very useful for the determination of the drugs. Some of the ...

background and objectives: the expanding field of psychopharmacology is constantly seeking new and improved drugs to treat psychiatric disorders. although psychotropic drugs have had a remarkable impact in psychiatry, their utilization, effectiveness, and side effects in the in clinical practice need continuous study. the present study was thus designed to analyze the pattern of psychotropic dr...

Recently many people have shown great interest in traditional indigenous practices and popular medicine, involving the ingestion of natural psychotropic drugs. We received a request to analyze and determine the nature of a dark green liquid with a dark brown plant sediment, which the police had seized at an airport and inside the home of a person belonging to the 'Santo Daime' religious movemen...

In non-substance-related addiction, the so-called behavioural addiction, no external psychotropic substances are consumed. The psychotropic effect consists of the body's own biochemical processes induced only by excessive activities. Until recently, knowledge was limited with respect to clinically relevant excessive reward-seeking behaviour, such as pathological gambling, excessive shopping and...

Background: In psychiatry, polypharmacy is more the rule than the exception. The present study investigates the frequency and type of polypharmacy in various diagnostic groups amongst patients of a psychiatric outpatient care unit. Methods: Patients’ medical records were used to collect data on the last psychopharmacological medication prescribed in 2005 for all patients at the outpatient care ...

BACKGROUND We aimed herein to assess demographic, etiological, and clinical characteristics of patients presenting to our hospital's emergency department with acute poisoning. METHOD This study included a total of 509 (0.27%) patients diagnosed with poisoning at our emergency department within a 3-year period. This was a retrospective study.  RESULTS Seventy-one point three (n = 363) percen...

BACKGROUND In this cross-sectional study the association between psychosocial stress, demoralization and the consumption of psychotropic substances in veterinarians was examined using data from a sample of 1,060 subjects (52.7% response). METHODS Multiple logistic regression models were used to determine risk factors for psychosocial stress, demoralization, tobacco consumption (not greater, l...

The use of psychoactive substances various types (tobacco, alcohol, cannabis, psychotropic drugs or others) in the workplace has received greater attention for some years now. However, this field remains unexplored Morocco.The consumption could be considered as a catalyst psychological ailments triggered by pathogenic factors resulting from professional environment. Objective- Our study aims to...