Korean J Psychopharmacol.
2013 Apr;24(2):59-68.
Psychotrophic Drug Therapy of the Sexual Offenders or Paraphilia
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- 1Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, Dankook University, Cheonan, Korea. paperose@dku.edu
- 2Institute of Forensic Psychiatry Ministry of Justice, Gongju, Korea.
Abstract
- Sexual violence crime causes severe trauma to victim's family as well as the victim, and its aftereffect which is hard to be healed can last for the entire lifetime. And thus plenty of social cost is incurred due to the crime. It has long been reported that paraphilia is associated with sexual offenders and sexual violence. In this study, the previous foreign data on the psychiatric medication used for sexual offender or paraphilia were summarized for the first time in Korea, and the possibility of medication in Korea was examined. As for the drugs used for sexual offender or paraphilia, SSRI was most frequently reported and besides that, tricyclic antidepressant, antipsychotics, antiepileptic drugs, mirtazapine, and naltrexone were reported.
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