Through them, water, alcohol, and pharmacologic agents can be absorbed and excreted.
Long-term analytic or reality-oriented supportive psychotherapy is a therapeutic mainstay for BPD along with the use of a wide range of pharmacologic agents, including antidepressants, antipsychotics, and mood stabilizers for specific symptoms, often used in low dosages.
So one sunny Saturday in 1964 I developed a pharmacologic launchpad consisting of a base of amphetamine (for general arousal), LSD (for hallucinogenic intensity), and a touch of cannabis (for a little added delirium).
Her husband, distraught, begged me to consider some pharmacologic remedy.
I have also seen the benefits of pharmacologic therapies and certainly acknowledge that some of our therapies for medical conditions have been derived from plants.
"There is an urgent need for better pharmacologic options for individual patients," said Elaine H. Morrato, an assistant professor at the University of Colorado, Denver, who voted no in 2010 and yes on Wednesday.
Now there was a pharmacologic and marketing plan that would extend a lucrative new patent for decades.
This treatment may take many forms, including the use of pharmacologic agents.
The latest findings may never lead to a satisfying pharmacologic fix for what the psychologist Kay Redfield Jamison has called "ordinary existential angst" and others "terminal you-ness," but they may someday help stiffen the spine, and they remind us that it's worth listening to serotonin no matter what it has to say.
And then there are some practitioners wedded to psychological treatments who are eager to debunk the supposed superiority of pharmacologic treatment in part to expand their own practices.
