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New data of the theory of self-medication

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

I. Prieto Sánchez*
Affiliation:
Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Huelva Juan Ramón Jimenez, Unidad de Salud Mental, Huelva, Spain
M.D.L.C. Ramírez Domínguez
Affiliation:
Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Huelva Juan Ramón Jimenez, Unidad de Salud Mental, Huelva, Spain
N. Garrido Torres
Affiliation:
Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Huelva Juan Ramón Jimenez, Unidad de Salud Mental, Huelva, Spain
S. Fernández León
Affiliation:
Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Huelva Juan Ramón Jimenez, Unidad de Salud Mental, Huelva, Spain
M. Reina Domínguez
Affiliation:
Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Huelva Juan Ramón Jimenez, Unidad de Salud Mental, Huelva, Spain
A. Rodríguez Martínez
Affiliation:
Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Huelva Juan Ramón Jimenez, Unidad de Salud Mental, Huelva, Spain
A.S. Biedma Martín
Affiliation:
Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Huelva Juan Ramón Jimenez, Unidad de Salud Mental, Huelva, Spain
C. González Macías
Affiliation:
Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Huelva Juan Ramón Jimenez, Unidad de Salud Mental, Huelva, Spain
*
* Corresponding author.

Abstract

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Objective

The theory of self-medication in patients with severe mental illness has been exposed for years but to date has not been confirmed or ruled out. With this study, we intend to show the latest available evidence regarding this context.

Methods

An exhaustive literature research in Medline and the latest forth in APA 2015.

Results

More and more evidence refute the veracity of this theory deeply rooted among some professionals.

Conclusion

There are theoretical alternatives that relate more sustained manner the relationship between consumption and toxic psychosis.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Type
EV1417
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2016
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