Abstract
One-hundred years ago, Sir William Osier made reference to the physician who practices “a sort of pop-gun pharmacy hitting now the malady and again the patient, he himself, not knowing which.” Today we must also be concerned about the patient turning that pharmacologic pop-gun against himself by using one of the 100,000 available over-the-counter drugs (American Pharmaceutical Association, “Handbook of Non-Prescription Drugs,” 1973).
From the Departments of Psychiatry and Medicine, The Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 53226
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Hall, R.C.W., Gardner, E.R., Stickney, S.K. (1981). Rapidly Developing Psychosis as Complication of Innocent Over-The-Counter Drug Use. In: Schecter, A.J. (eds) Drug Dependence and Alcoholism. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0220-0_95
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