The use of d-amphetamine in medically ill depressed patients.

Publication/Presentation Date

11-1-1982

Abstract

A positive therapeutic response to d-amphetamine is described in three medically ill depressed patients in a general hospital. Two patients were either unable to tolerate or responded poorly to tricyclic antidepressants. In one patient, d-amphetamine was chosen because of the combination of postoperative pain and depression. There was a rapid remission of depressive symptomatology with no adverse side effects, consistent with the findings of other investigators. Further evaluation of the therapeutic role of d-amphetamine in the treatment of medically ill depressed patients is recommended.

Volume

43

Issue

11

First Page

463

Last Page

464

ISSN

0160-6689

Disciplines

Psychiatry

PubMedID

7174624

Department(s)

Department of Psychiatry

Document Type

Article

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