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Antipsychotic medicines
There are many types of antipsychotic medicines. A simple way of grouping them is: • older antipsychotics, such as chlorpromazine, thioradazine, trifluoperazine and haloperidol; • newer antipsychotics, such as olanzapine, clozapine and risperidone. As a general rule, the older drugs produce more side-effects but are much cheaper than the newer drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are used […]
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