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Rational prescribing of psychotropic medicines

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Hamid Ghodse
Hamid Ghodse*
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Board of International Affairs, and Editor, International Psychiatry
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International Psychiatry , Volume 1 , Issue 5 , July 2004 , pp. 1 - 2
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