Survey On Drugs In Mental Hospitals
ffl.Z. Press Associations WELLINGTON, July 8. Psychotropic drugs used in mental hospitals have helped reduce the prescribed length of stay for mental patients, according to an independent survey on drug use.
Psychotropic drugs include hallucinogenics like LSD, antidepressants, central stimulants, tranquillisers, and hypnosedatives. The cost-benefit analysis
of drugs used in the Kingseat and Sunnyside mental hospitals was made by Miss Kerrin M. Christie, a health economist.
The study was supported by a grant from the New Zealand Ethical Pharmaceuticals Association and was published by the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research. The cost-benefit relationship of the new and expensive drugs was hard to determine accurately because of the difficulty of isolating the influence of a particular variable, says Miss Christie.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31726, 9 July 1968, Page 2
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