Comparing psychotropic medication prescribing in personality disorder between general mental health and psychological services: retrospective cohort study.

Background: Although no drugs are licensed for the treatment of personality disorder, pharmacological treatment in clinical practice remains common.

Aims: This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of psychotropic drug use and associations with psychological service use among people with personality disorder.

Method: Using data from a large, anonymised mental healthcare database, we identified all adult patients with a diagnosis of personality disorder and ascertained psychotropic medication use between 1 August 2015 and 1 February 2016.