PULSE EXECUTIVE EDITION is a free service of the Centre for Community Change International, selecting links to reports, articles, major news stories and Internet resources from CCCI's PULSE news service for leaders of mental health and consumer advocacy organizations. PULSE is researched, edited and designed by Bill Davis.
Friday, January 31, 2003
Fiscal Challenges Await State Mental Health Program Directors
Article in Mental Health Weekly at Medscape - "States are facing yet another difficult fiscal year of enormous budget shortfalls and escalating budget deficits, which so far in the mental health field have prompted facility closings, workforce reductions, hiring freezes, and dwindling resources while states try to grapple with escalating prescription drug costs." [Viewing Medscape resources requires registration, which is free].
Side Effects and Therapeutic Effects
Article in Medscape Psychopharmacology Today - "There are two broad sets of issues that we deal with in psychopharmacology: pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics. Pharmacokinetics could be defined as what the body does to drugs, and encompasses all of the issues of drug interactions and drug clearance metabolism. Pharmacodynamics could be defined as what the drug does to the body. One could argue that it is the most important group of issues, because it encompasses the actual therapeutic effect of the drug." [Viewing Medscape resources requires registration, which is free].