Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to RT Brown.
The authors discuss in detail the pharmacology and toxicity of illicit drugs that pose a major threat to adolescent health, including marijuana, cocaine, hallucinogens, opiates, inhalants, and designer drugs. The discussion of each drug concludes with guidelines for clinical management of adolescent users.
Many adolescents see physicians for diagnosis and treatment of symptoms that are found to have little or no organic basis. Definition, epidemiology, diagnosis, and management of psychosomatic symptoms are presented, with special attention to recurrent abdominal pain, which is one of the most common somatoform syndromes.