HLTHAGE 2G03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Psychoactive Drug, Miracle Drug, Pharmaceutical Drug
16 Dec 2014
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Final course notes: no class on monday, final at same time, same room on. Psychotropic drugs were the leading driver of this increase and ssris are the major drug in this psychotropic drug class. Psychiatry pre-1950: dominated by psychoanalysts, crowded asylums, lifetime custodial care, somatic treatments relatively ineffective or dangerous for severe mental illness, psychiatry distant from medicine, the psychopharmaceutical. Revolution destroys all of this, changes psychiatry forever. Wonder drug: discovered by a french surgeon in early 1950s, trying to use it as an anaesthesia. Noticed his soldiers became remarkably calm after taking the drug: unaware of safeness, started having psychiatrists try it out on their patients. Paris about a new wonder drug: giovanni a. Why such a wonder drug: more effective than somatic treatments of the time (i. e. ect, insulin coma treatment, etc ), much less dangerous, patients tolerated drug much more than other treatments, more likely to stay on it.
