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Future pharmacotherapy for post-traumatic stress disorder: prevention and treatment
1National Center for PTSD, VAM ROC 116D, 215 N. Main Street, White River Junction, VT 05009-0001, USA. matthew.friedman@dartmaith.edu
The Psychiatric Clinics of North America
|July 26, 2002
Abstract:
I have presented two complementary lines of speculation in this article. First, I have presented a public health model of resilience, prevention, acute intervention, and tertiary treatment to inform a pharmacotherapeutic strategy for PTSD in the future. Second, I have proposed a rational rather than an empirical approach to the clinical pharmacology of PTSD. Such an approach suggests that efforts be directed toward the development and testing of new classes of drugs designed to target the unique pathophysiology of PTSD.