## Abstract People with mental retardation, autism, and related developmental disabilities who self‐injure are treated with a wide array of behavioral techniques and psychotropic medications. Despite numerous reports documenting short‐term and some long‐term changes in self‐injury associated with t
Naltrexone decreases self-injurious behavior
✍ Scribed by Dr Barbara H. Herman; M. Kathryn Hammock; Ann Arthur-Smith; Bs; James Egan; Irene Chatoor; Alisa Werner; Nathaniel Zelnik
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1987
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 319 KB
- Volume
- 22
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0364-5134
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