NOUN
- tranquilizer used to treat psychotic conditions when a calming effect is desired
How To Use antipsychotic drug In A Sentence
- I have fought off an attempt to section me under the Mental Health Act, and I have taken a battery of antidepressant / antipsychotic drugs that left me desperately tired and sick.
- Fortunately for Lawrence and John, that same piece points to success in treating racism with antipsychotic drugs.
- There has only been one trial of an antipsychotic drug, trifluoperazine, for generalised anxiety disorder.
- Diuretics for hypertension such as hydrochlorothiazide, certain beta blockers such as Coreg, the arthritis medicine Celebrex and the antipsychotic drugs Risperdal (risperidone), Seroquel and Zyprexa all can raise blood sugar. Local News from Tuscaloosa News
- Or they may get some relief from the lobotomizing effect of an antipsychotic drug or the blunting impact of a mood stabilizer. Dr. Peter Breggin: Medication Madness: How Psychiatric Drugs Cause Violence, Suicide, and Crime
- He conducted double-blind controlled trials on the important antipsychotic drugs chlorpromazine and haloperidol, and later on antidepressants.
- Akathisia has been well documented as a common and distressing side effect of antipsychotic drugs and an important cause of poor drug compliance.
- Although many millions of people are seriously harmed each year by the so-called antipsychotic drugs, relatively few victims are able to bring malpractice or product liability suits. Dr. Peter Breggin: Antipsychotic Drugs, Their Harmful Effects, and the Limits of Tort Reform
- The Irish Medicines Board has decided to ban the use of the antipsychotic drug thioridazine in children because of fears over cardiac side effects.
- The prevalence of sexual dysfunction in men and women treated with antipsychotic drugs is high; however, the contribution of hyperprolactinaemia and secondary hypogonadism needs to be determined.