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The role of ethnicity in psychopharmacology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Pedro Ruiz
Pedro Ruiz*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston, 1300 Moursund Street, Houston, Texas 77030, USA, email pedro.ruiz@uth.tmc.edu
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The association between ethnicity and pharmacology has been reported in the medical literature for several decades. However, the relationship between ethnicity and psychopharmacology has become widely recognised only in the last two or three decades. The large-scale migration which started after the Second World War, at first to the USA and more recently to other higher-income countries, as a result of globalisation, has greatly contributed to the attention and focus given to these migrant groups. In this context, these migrant groups primarily comprise ethnic and racial minority groups. This article briefly reviews the relationship between ethnicity and psychopharmacological agents.

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Thematic Papers - Ethno-Psychopharmacology
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International Psychiatry , Volume 4 , Issue 3 , July 2007 , pp. 55 - 56
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists 2007

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