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Current approaches to the drug treatment of depression
Author(s) -
Galloway Alexander,
MacGillivray Steve,
Reid Ian
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
prescriber
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.106
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 1931-2253
pISSN - 0959-6682
DOI - 10.1002/psb.331
Subject(s) - medicine , depression (economics) , medical prescription , drug , psychiatry , intensive care medicine , interface (matter) , mental health , pharmacology , computer science , economics , macroeconomics , bubble , maximum bubble pressure method , parallel computing
Depression is the most common and costly mental health problem seen in general practice 1 and the mainstay of treatment remains the use of antidepressants. Our Drug review considers the properties of the drugs currently available and current prescribing guidelines. This is followed by further sources of information in Resources, an analysis of prescription data and details of the drugs available in the Datafile. Copyright © 2006 Wiley Interface Ltd