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H M Voth

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PubMed1991

Responsible prescribing of controlled substances.

One-third of the disciplinary actions against physicians in 1990 involved prescriptions for controlled or abusable drugs. Problems involving the prescribing of controlled medications may occur because of overdose, dependence or use by known drug abusers. A common problem facing the physician is the identification of potential overdose victims and addicted patients. Requests for early prescription refills, claims of lost prescriptions, frequent after-hours calls and patient intolerance to nonnarcotic pain-relieving drugs should raise suspicions of drug abuse.

Drug Overdose↗
PubMed1978

Metaphor as a diagnostic tool.

A case study is reported wherein the patient's frequent use of metaphors was used as presumptive evidence that the patient had been misdiagnosed ten years earlier as having central nervous system disease. The ability to produce metaphors depends upon the capacity to condense several meanings into a word or two, and this in turn implies a rather active associative process. Concretism, not associative richness, characterizes central nervous system disease. The presumption as regards diagnosis was supported by subsequent data including the patient's response to psychotherapy.

Alcohol Amnestic Disorder↗