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Antipsychotics: is it time to introduce patient choice?

Lookup NU author(s): Professor Douglas Turkington

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Abstract

Evidence regarding overestimation of the efficacy of antipsychotics and underestimation of their toxicity, as well as emerging data regarding alternative treatment options, suggests it may be time to introduce patient choice and reconsider whether everyone who meets the criteria for a schizophrenia spectrum diagnosis requires antipsychotics in order to recover.

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Author(s): Morrison AP, Hutton P, Shiers D, Turkington D

Publication type: Editorial

Publication status: Published

Journal: British Journal of Psychiatry

Year: 2012

Volume: 201

Issue: 2

Pages: 83-84

Print publication date: 01/08/2012

ISSN (print): 0007-1250

ISSN (electronic): 1472-1465

Publisher: Royal College of Psychiatrists

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.bp.112.112110

DOI: 10.1192/bjp.bp.112.112110

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