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    Polypharmacy in psychiatry: A review
    with S. Kukreja, G. Kalra, and A. Shrivastava
    Mens Sana Monographs 11 (1): 82. 2013.
    Psychiatric polypharmacy refers to the prescription of two or more psychiatric medications concurrently to a patient. It can be categorised as same-class, multi-class, adjunctive, augmentation and total polypharmacy. Despite advances in psychopharmacology and a better understanding of the principles of therapeutics, its practice is increasing rapidly. The prevalence of polypharmacy in psychiatry varies between 13%-90%. There are various clinical and pharmaco-economic factors associated with it. …Read more