Posted by ed_uk2010 on December 30, 2013, at 13:43:04
In reply to old unused antipsychotics, posted by rjlockhart37 on December 29, 2013, at 21:10:44
>there is a TON of medications in the Thorazine class....that are there, but there unused, there old, but i just browsed through them on wikipedia and i mean why do they even have these because there's alot of them and there not used that much....
It depends on the country, but not all of these drugs are still sold.
In England, the most widely used 1st generation antipsychotics in tablet form are haloperidol and zuclopenthixol, occasionally chlorpromazine.
1st generation antipsychotics are still widely used as depot injections every 2-4 weeks. The most popular here is zuclopenthixol (Clopixol), followed by flupenthixol (Depixol). Haloperidol (Haldol), fluphenazine (Modecate) and pipothiazine (Piportil) are used somewhat less often. Few newer drugs are available as long-acting depot injections, and the ones which are often don't work any better than Clopixol.
So, there's not a massive range of drugs actually in use... in reality.
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