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P Lowinger

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PubMed1979

Do psychiatric outpatients need professionals?

A large majority of psychiatric outpatients (70 percent) could be diagnosed by nonprofessionals, and an even larger proportion, 80 percent, of 36 patients evaluated could be treated by nonprofessionals. Where the nonprofessional needed professional assistance to diagnose and treat the patient, it was a medical doctor rather than a mental health professional who was needed in every case except one. The 36 psychiatric outpatients all had "problems of daily living" rather than "real" psychiatric illness.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1977

The solution to narcotic addiction in the People's Republic of China.

The People's Republic of China dealt with addiction as a political problem, offering the new society hope, food, shelter, work, and land instead of opium. Addiction no longer had its appeal. Opium producing poppies were replaced by food corps. Large opium distributors were imprisoned. Addicts were "clean". A mass campaign against addiction mobilized the entire nation. Before Liberation in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party had kept opium out of their areas. However, it took until 1953 to rid China completely of opium. Twenty million Chinese outside the People's Republic of China continue to have serious narcotic addiction problems.

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