Definition of psychotropic
:acting on the mind
- psychotropic drugs
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Although about 60 percent of the boys at the school take psychotropic drugs, Disability Rights Iowa’s report notes the institution’s sole psychologist isn’t state-certified and that a psychiatrist works part-time on a contract basis.
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However, the report was delivered to the inmate's lawyers two days before the sentencing hearing, followed by dozens of mental health records and a prison file showing that McWilliams was taking psychotropic drugs.
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Only about 160 of the more than 500 jail inmates prescribed with psychotropic drugs are included in OPSO's mental health caseload, federal jail monitors found.
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The use of psychotropic drugs among Orleans Parish inmates came as no surprise to Janet Hays, a local advocate for alternatives to incarceration for people with mental illness.
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Among San Diego County’s average daily jail population of 5,700 inmates, about a third — 28 percent to 35 percent — are on some type of psychotropic drug.
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Many of these artists believed that the psychotropic drug freed them from inhibitions and allowed them to take greater creative risks.
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In an impromptu rite one day during the 2002 expedition, Tepi helped prepare an infusion of psychotropic eye drops made from a mixture of water and the shavings of tree and liana bark.
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Geriatric medical organizations have long warned against overprescribing to older people, who are more susceptible to common side effects of psychotropic drugs, such as dizziness and confusion.
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1948
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