Although psychotropic drugs have been hailed as, 'One of the success stories of modern psychiatry' the prescribing of these medicines has not been without commotion, concern and controversy. Moreover, the President of the World Psychiatry Association Professor Dinesh Bhugra and colleagues, after conducting a recent large-scale study (n=25,522) on psychiatric morbidity in the UK, collectively is...

We estimate the relationship between neighborhood violence and psychological well-being using nationally representative panel data from South Africa. use on household-level perceptions of as well reported crimes local media reports to measure violence. First, we find poor live in neighborhoods that they perceive have higher levels objectively more Second, both perceived objective are strongly l...