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Over a 1-year study period all patients admitted to the department of psychiatry in a general hospital were asked to complete the General Health Questionnaire at admission, discharge, and first polyclinic (outpatient) follow-up contact. Seventeen per cent of admissions were alcoholics. Alcoholics improved rapidly after admission to the psychiatric department. This improvement was comparable to that of all the (psychiatric) patients admitted and continued after discharge.

fact that no deleterious effects were observed on respiratory and cardiac function or vital signs indices indicate the safety of mir-tazapine when taken in overdose. This finding is in agreement with a previously reported case of overdose in The Netherlands 2 and cases occurring during clinical trials. 1,4 REFERENCES 1. Davies R, Wilde MI. Mirtazapine: a review of its pharmacology and therapeutic potential in the management in major depression. CNS