Risperidone

Jan 10, 2008 23:23


Tonight's drug study includes: Risperidone. The fucntional class of this drug is antipsychotic, a term,  applied to a group of drugs commonly but not exclusively used to treat psychosis. Psychosis  is a generic psychiatric term for a mental state often described as having a 'loss of contact with reality'. Common conditions with which antipsychotics ( Read more... )

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Hmmm... thisisdavid January 11 2008, 04:58:08 UTC
It's a very old psychotropic that they still use.
When I worked with adult schizophrenics, many of them took it.
You can look way back on my journal in 2003-4 when I worked with them. Most facinating people I ever worked with!
It works but leaves many gross motor side effects in it's trail.
Still it works though. Sadly, all antipsychotics carry side effects of one kind or another.

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