Evidence drug, analytical approach

Analytical Approach LSD as physical evidence is submitted in forms such as blotter papers, gelatin windows, candies, mints, and, less frequently, pills. The potency of the drug creates both analytical challenges and safety concerns. 

An attempt has been made to discuss the position of drug therapy of various types of mental disorders within a wider perspective, and especially to clarify the relationship between drug therapy and non-drug treatments. It was necessary to deal separately with the various classes of psychopharmaceuticals and the disorders treated with them, and for our purposes it was also sensible to refer as far as possible to controlled, i.e. comparative, studies. The drawback of this evidence-based approach is obvious comparative studies of therapeutic procedures almost necessarily favor one of the compared treatments because they can never be carried out with completely identical preconditions for all treatments (Elkin et studies comparing psychotherapy with pharmacotherapy were scrutinized and discovered to include studies that were not entirely blind, random, controlled or of high quality, leading to inaccurate conclusions. Thus, meta-analyses based on flawed studies are clearly inadequate for the establishment of treatment guidelines (Klein, 2000). On the other hand, the value of an admittedly incomplete summary such as presented here is that results obtained in different places by different authors with different preconditions can be critically compared and related one to the other. 

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