title: Looking back to the future of psychopharmacology.
abstract: In 1967, select members of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP) met to discuss the future of the field. In their publication from this meeting, Psychotropic Drugs in the Year 2000, in 1971, the group imagined wild possibilities for chemical alteration of human behaviors and experience. These men thought that drugs could be used to solve social problems for all people. Not surprisingly, few of the predictions came true because the ACNP members could not have foreseen changes in American society and politics, a separation between street drugs and prescribed medications, and the increasing power of the pharmaceutical industry.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-5020, USA. lauradh@umich.edu
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hirshbein
mesh_terms: D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000523:psychology*; D011600:Psychopharmacology / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends*; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs / Q000627:therapeutic use*
chemical_list: D011619:Psychotropic Drugs