And, you seldom need companion drugs to control extrapyramidal symptoms any more either.
It may well be the case that so-called "anti-psychotics" are prescribed promiscuously by certain psychiatrists, but even if, they are less harmlful than their predeccessors.
I don’t suppose you bothered to download & read the documents I linked to, did you?
“And, you seldom need companion drugs to control extrapyramidal symptoms any more either.”
Your statement is factually inaccurate. Anti-Parkinson drugs are indeed needed with today’s atypical antipsychotics. Please get on board with the current Facts, before rushing to defend drugs which are No better, and in many instances Worse than the 1st generation drugs.
http://psychroaches.blogspot.com/search/label/Akathisia
The current Courtroom slugfest over J&J’s Risperdal lies in J&J’s falsely marketing, and over marketing, Risperdal as safer and more effective than Thorazine, Haldol, Stelazine and all the Other 1st generation antipsychotics.
And please spell the name of J&J’s wretched Brain Eating drug correctly next time.
NONE of those drugs, OR Psychiatric/Psychological THEORIES - Not Science, but THEORIES - are worth the powder to blow them to the Nether Regions, and the US VA admits it. Where are you going to find a larger patient population/sample size than the US VA?
“No Positive Outcome”, no matter How the drugs are mixed and matched.
http://psychroaches.blogspot.com/2010/12/dear-us-department-of-veterans-affairs.html
“I can tell you the newer drugs are far superior.”
You can Tell other people anything you want to tell them, but that alone doesn’t make it the truth.