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Are we done with trazodone? The potential for damage by m-CPP – a metabolite of trazodone

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 June 2014

Richard E Kast*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, Burlington 05401 Vermont
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Dr Richard E. Kast, Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, 2 Church Street, Burlington VT 05401. Tel: +802-863-2462 E-mail: rekast@email.com

Abstract

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Comment & Critique
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Copyright © 2007 Blackwell Munksgaard

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