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  • Doctors are allowed to prescribe drugs "off label," but many experts worry that they are taking far too great a risk with toddlers -- not just because of potential side effects (nervousness and insomnia are the most common with Ritalin) but because there is no data on how psycho-tropic drugs affect long-term brain development.

    Drugged-Out Toddlers 2008

  • Lewis said most of the so-called psycho-tropic substances or

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

  • Once we have done so, South Africa will be a party to all the existing multilateral treaties dealing with narcotic drugs and psycho-tropic substances.

    ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA AT THE UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL DRUG CONTROL PROGRAMME SOUTH AFRICA LEGAL WORKSHOP ON SUB-REGIONAL CO-OPERATION AGAINST DRUG TRAFFICKING 1994

  • Once we have done so, South Africa will be a party to all the existing multilateral treaties dealing with narcotic drugs and psycho-tropic substances.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • From the danceable paranoia of "We Know All About U" to the giddy ruckus of "The Muzik," her blend of psycho-tropic spacepunk and crunchy pop seems as effortless as lifting one of her lemon-yellow-vinyl-nailed pinkie fingers.

    Paste Magazine 2009

  • (ET 15/10, 19/10, 27/10) The FG in New York subsequently referred to numerous reports regarding the risk of torture in China, including reports from the UN on torture in mental hospitals, and the psychiatric imprisonment of FG practitioners, union and student members, all of whom were subjected to shock therapy and psycho-tropic medications.

    Singabloodypore 2009

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