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QJM 2006 99(6):421-423; doi:10.1093/qjmed/hcl049
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Commentaries

Neuroleptics reconsidered

A. Daniels

Address correspondence to Dr A. Daniels. email: anthony.daniels@wanadoo.fr

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   Introduction
 
This is a response to the Commentary by Dr Charlton (Why are doctors still prescribing neuroleptics?) in this issue of QJM.10 Perhaps it would be best to begin by summarizing his argument.

He states that neuroleptics do not cure schizophrenia, that they create dependency, and that they have many undesirable side-effects, even fatal ones. He states that, insofar as they appear to effect an improvement in the condition for which they are prescribed, it is by means of some of the very effects that are generally deemed undesirable, namely Parkinsonism and over-sedation. In other words, the desired and undesired effects are one and the same. Finally, he states that the undesired effects are so bad that it would be better if patients were treated with safer sedatives, such as benzodiazepines.


   Neuroleptics not a cure for schizophrenia
 
As far as I am aware, no one has ever claimed, or at least not for a long time, that . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   Unwanted effects of neuroleptics
 

   The identity of desired and undesired effects
 

   Suggested treatment with benzodiazepines
 

   Conclusions
 

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