Data from hospitals on medication use are valuable for assessing clinical practice, including undesirable variation, work on therapeutic guidelines and hospital economics. Figures on the use of ...

Prescription drug costs have risen dramatically over the past few years, and spending on drugs for treating mental health conditions has grown particularly rapidly. In 2001, of the twenty-five drugs ...

In 2024, it added 46 new psychoactive substances and four narcotic and psychotropic drugs to its controlled drug list, and advanced work to crack down on e-cigarettes containing etomidate.

Schizophrenia medication falls under two main categories: older, first-generation, or "typical" antipsychotics and newer drugs for schizophrenia known as second-generation or "atypical" antipsychotics ...

And China has not detected any significant fentanyl abuse, the report said. However, it warned that drug users have turned to more accessible, cheaper and similarly effective addictive substances such ...

Psychotropic medications are commonly used to manage these conditions, and there is a need to examine the impact of COVID-19 on the use and efficacy of these substances. This Research Topic aims to ...

Abstract Pharmaco-psychiatry and gut microbiome: a systematic review of effects of psychotropic drugs for bipolar disorder Despite being one of the most common and debilitating mood disorders, bipolar ...

China will add 46 new psychoactive substances to its controlled substances list from the start of next month as it intensifies efforts to combat drug manufacturing, trafficking and abuse, the China ...

A molecular modelling technique is used here to compare the chemical structures of past and current drugs of use in the treatment of schizophrenia. The data demonstrate that drug structures relate to ...