Association between psychotropic prescriptions and the total amount of psychotropics ingested during an intentional

Iori Tanahashi1,2, Takafumi Shiganami1, Takayuki Iwayama1,3

  • 1Department of Psychiatry, Saitama Medical Center, Saitama Medical University, Kawagoe, Japan.

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