PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Hawton, Keith
AU  - Blackstock, Eileen
TI  - Deliberate self-poisoning: implications for pyschotropic drug prescribing in general practice
DP  - 1977 Sep 01
TA  - The Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners
PG  - 560--563
VI  - 27
IP  - 182
4099  - http://bjgp.org/content/27/182/560.short
4100  - http://bjgp.org/content/27/182/560.full
SO  - J R Coll Gen Pract1977 Sep 01; 27
AB  - Several surveys have confirmed that the majority of patients who take an overdose of drugs have seen their general practitioner within the preceding few weeks; as many as a third attend within the previous week. We studied 130 patients who had taken an overdose and interviewed 122 of the general practitioners. We found that they had identified many interpersonal problems and had usually prescribed psychotropic drugs. We question the wisdom of this response and suggest other ways of handling such problems in general practice.