Abstract
This article reviews the recent history of somatic treatment of mental illness and discusses possible roles for social workers in the prescription of psychotropic drugs. Social work has neglected drug treatments partly because of the way social workers of an earlier era resolved doubts about the immediate predecessor of drugs, shock treatment. Today, the prevalence and misdiagnosis of treatment-induced adverse effects, the unique perspective of social work, the blurring of functions, and the interprofessional competition in mental health-as well as the goal of enhancing our clients' welfare-have removed practical and scientific obstacles to social work's serious and autonomous study of psychotropic drug treatments.
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