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Cautions when using medicines for mental illness
Cautions when using medicines for mental illness • Many medicines interact with alcohol. In particular, medicines that cause sedation will worsen the drowsiness felt after drinking alcohol. • The doses given in the tables are for adults. Use a third to a half of these doses for people over the age of 60 and for children aged […]
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.How to make sure people take medicines
The most important thing you can do is to educate people about their illness and the medicine. Some important points are: • Explain how the symptoms are caused by an illness and, just as with physical disorders, how medicines can be of help. • Involve the family (with the patient’s permission) in encouraging the patient […]
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Anti-anxiety medicines
These medicines are also called ‘sleeping pills’. They include diazepam, nitrazepam, lorazepam, clonazepam, alprazolam and oxazepam. They are used to treat sleep problems and anxiety. When you prescribe these drugs, there are some points you should remember: • the patient should avoid alcohol; • avoid giving them to a woman in the last stage of […]
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Key principles in medicines management
The following principles of practice are common to all areas of medicines management, irrespective of diagnosis or nature of pharmacological interventions. Recovery The concept of recovery in mental health has had many defi nitions. From a traditional medical perspective, recovery occurs when symptomatology is eliminated and the person returns to previous state of health and […]
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