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Blood Thiamine and Nicotinic Acid Levels in Alcoholism and Confusional States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

P. W. Kershaw
P. W. Kershaw*
Affiliation:
University of Glasgow, Southern General Hospital, Glasgow, S.W.I
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It has been routine psychiatric practice in recent years to prescribe vitamins in alcoholism and confusional states and sometimes in other organic psychoses. The doses given are massive, varying from about ten to twenty times those strictly necessary in deficiency states. This empirical therapy is supported neither by controlled trials nor by direct evidence of vitamin deficiency.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 113 , Issue 497 , April 1967 , pp. 387 - 393
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1967 

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