Preliminary research also indicates that CBD may be effective as an antipsychotic in reducing the symptoms of schizophrenia, with fewer side effects compared with current antipsychotic drugs, Dr. Blessing said.
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Women taking the antipsychotic risperidone were about 26 percent more likely than women not taking antipsychotic drugs to give birth to children with birth defects, the researchers report in JAMA Psychiatry.
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While Young was in his room, a nurse administered a third shot — 5 milligrams of Haldol, an antipsychotic medication; 100 milligrams of Thorazine, another antipsychotic; and 50 milligrams of Benadryl, records show.
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Other former doctors testified that they prescribed him antipsychotic medication.
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A few weeks later, she went off Abilify, the antipsychotic.
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Mr. Sawah said he was given antipsychotic drugs, sometimes forcibly.
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She seems to enjoy her tantrums and refuses antipsychotic medication.
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Slater's current medicine cabinet includes the antidepressant Effexor, the antipsychotic Zyprexa, another antipsychotic, Abilify, the stimulant Vyvanse, the anti-anxiety medication Klonopin, as well as lisinopril to combat the high blood pressure caused by Effexor.
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It didn't matter that my psychiatrist had increased my antipsychotic dosage.
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His sister could not get him to take his antipsychotic medications.
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They all continued with their usual antipsychotic medication throughout the trial.
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The Science report in particular highlights the antipsychotic Seroquel, developed by AstraZeneca.
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He refused to eat or take the antipsychotic drugs he'd been prescribed.
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Doctors diagnosed him with catatonic schizophrenia and prescribed Haldol, a powerful antipsychotic.
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Amisulpride is an antipsychotic normally used to treat the symptoms of schizophrenia.
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Training also covered risks associated with antipsychotic medication used to treat agitation.
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He was once placed on an antipsychotic medicine used to treat schizophrenia.
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The psychotic form requires an antipsychotic drug in addition to an antidepressant.
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She became increasingly isolated and was no longer taking her antipsychotic medication.
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The antipsychotic she takes causes insatiable hunger and her weight has ballooned.
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Clozapine is the only antipsychotic with FDA approval for treating suicidal behaviors.
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He had also been prescribed antipsychotic and antidepressant medications, the Associated Press reported.
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How it works: The antipsychotic tablet can help treat schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
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Clozapine, an antipsychotic, can be particularly dangerous to go off of cold-turkey.
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The company has also used it for antipsychotic medications that are dosed monthly.
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In one case, a psychiatrist prescribed the antipsychotic medication olanzapine to a prisoner.
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The judge noted that Webb still hears voices despite a year on antipsychotic medications.
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He was taken to a psychiatric unit and given a tranquilizer and an antipsychotic.
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Her parents communicated her directive's preferences, including objections to electroconvulsive therapy and antipsychotic medications.
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When she was still no better, she saw another psychiatrist, who added an antipsychotic.
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To date, only three antipsychotic drugs have been approved as add-on treatments for MDD.
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He was prescribed an antipsychotic, Risperdal, and the antidepressant Zoloft, which he continues to take.
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I was eating this medication Seroquel, which is an antipsychotic that I take to sleep.
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Judicious use of antipsychotic medication can greatly reduce the risk of suicide in this population.
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He believed he could crush and smoke his antipsychotic medication to achieve its intended effect.
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The psychiatrist gave her tranquilizers and an antipsychotic drug and told her to stop writing.
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After the injection of [the antipsychotic medication] aminazin, I was supposed to sleep that way.
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When residents were taken off antipsychotic drugs, they and their family members often saw improvement.
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The drug could be a game changer for the estimated $11 billion antipsychotic drug market.
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One man was given an antidepressant instead of an antipsychotic drug, likely worsening his condition.
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So while antipsychotic medication may reduce violent reoffending, it's a small part of the picture.
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For instance, at its height, AstraZeneca's antipsychotic drug Seroquel got $5 billion a year in revenue.
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Treatment has long focused on antipsychotic medications and on really difficult-to-treat symptoms, Schlosser said.
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People called them insane, and doctors took it as evidence that the antipsychotic drugs were working.
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Overall, about 1 in 660 patients reported new-onset psychosis and were prescribed an antipsychotic medication.
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He had ingested large quantities of Seroquel, an antipsychotic commonly handed out at detoxes like candy.
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While antipsychotic drugs are the first line of treatment for schizophrenia, they can make catatonia worse.
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The researchers attempted to match women who were similar to each other, except for taking antipsychotic medications.
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And despite all the different groups of antipsychotic meds, Maggie never got full relief from her symptoms.
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The doctors gave Abramson antidepressant and antipsychotic medications that helped bring her out of this psychotic state.
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The researchers found that outdoor activities were more effective than antipsychotic medications for treating physically aggressive patients.
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Yoshizawa treated cave fish with two medications: fluoxetine (Prozac) and clozapine (an antipsychotic used to treat schizophrenia).
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She said she knew of no good reason to prescribe more than one antipsychotic at a time.
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Simeone was spending long periods each week scouring pharmacies for olanzapine, an antipsychotic drug, having little luck.
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First I tried an antipsychotic (often prescribed then for Tourette's, even though it's not a psychotic disorder).
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Five times as many children are now prescribed psychostimulant and antipsychotic medications as were in the 1980s.
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In her deteriorated physical condition, she finally surrendered to a psychiatric assessment, and began taking antipsychotic medication.
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When should doctors intervene with antipsychotic or anti-anxiety medication, to best allow the patient a peaceful death?
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A person who is hospitalized with schizophrenia will inevitably be put on some type of second-generation antipsychotic.
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Recent reports describe children being forcibly injected with antipsychotic drugs and becoming suicidal from the trauma of separation.
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In 1993, when it was still a regular nursing home, 4003% of patients were being given antipsychotic drugs.
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So in the spirit of education, let's consider a recent online ad for Latuda, a new antipsychotic medication.
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Recently the plan has focused on Seroquel, a branded antipsychotic that costs far more than a similar generic.
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Then, the doctors tried an antipsychotic called Zyprexa, which made him feel like a zombie, foggy and tired.
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Coleman, 38, was found to have died from an adverse reaction to an antipsychotic drug administered at the hospital.
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Their doctors will typically start antipsychotic medications once the babies are born in order to help prevent another episode.
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Taking antipsychotic medicines during pregnancy does not increase the risk for birth defects, a large new study has found.
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In November 2015, researchers showed that risperidone, an antipsychotic drug, altered the gut microbes of mice who received it.
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In the 1960s, Dr. Carlsson showed that antipsychotic drugs work by blocking receptors on neurons that receive dopamine signals.
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In about half of people with dementia, antipsychotic drugs do not work, according to the UK-based Alzheimer's Society.
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At the hospital, he was required for the first time to take antipsychotic medication, and his delusions eventually abated.
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Falk was unable to see her daughter, who was reportedly given antipsychotic drugs, or return her home until Feb.
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Previous studies had found that antidepressant and antipsychotic use stayed steady after bariatric surgery, while use of other drugs decreased.
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Another medication, an atypical antipsychotic called olanzapine, stopped an episode that lasted the entire month of August in two doses.
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Antipsychotic drugs - such as Risperdal, Zyprexa and Seroquel - were developed to treat schizophrenia, which is a rare condition in children.
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His work provided the underlying science for many antipsychotic drugs, which modulate the strength of chemical signals in the brain.
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One man was given an antidepressant instead of an antipsychotic and another was given aspirin despite already having thin blood.
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McGuire and his co-researchers found that adding CBD to regular antipsychotic medication reduced psychotic symptoms in patients with schizophrenia.
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That move made a difference, reducing the use of antipsychotic drugs by 35%, according to a statement emailed to CNN.
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In the trial, 88 patients with psychosis received either CBD or placebo for six weeks, alongside their existing antipsychotic medication.
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He filled out a medical request form November 20, 22016, complaining of anxiety and saying his antipsychotic meds weren't working.
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The team has plans to evaluate antipsychotic use for the risk of gestational diabetes and other pregnancy related outcomes, she said.
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Nicholas Murray, 26, previously won $680,000 in the case over the antipsychotic drug Risperdal in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas.
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Soon, I gained 20 pounds—a common side effect of antipsychotic medications—and could no longer fit into my old clothes.
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Currently treatments for schizophrenia can include a combination of antipsychotic medication and therapy and the cause of the disease is unknown.
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She believes it has enabled him to take a lower dose of Risperdal, an antipsychotic drug used to treat bipolar disorder.
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Gonzalez had been prescribed the antipsychotic medications Risperdal and Depakote, which he hid in the side of his mouth without swallowing.
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He had thoughts of killing himself, he said, and saw a psychiatrist, who put him on an antidepressant and an antipsychotic.
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Later, a second antipsychotic, Abilify, was added—common practice, though there was limited research justifying the use of antipsychotics in combination.
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Soon Alseep explored Bates' experiences with antipsychotic medication, and Memory Bed goes on to tackle the spiritual reckoning in its wake.
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I knew, though, that if we gave him antipsychotic medication, he would realize that he was a homeless man with AIDS.
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She responded well to lithium, one of only two psychiatric medications shown to reduce suicide (the other is an antipsychotic, clozapine).
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A Philadelphia judge lowered the damages in a case that claimed Johnson & Johnson played down the risks of an antipsychotic drug.
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Three years ago, I was hospitalized for three months and put on an antipsychotic medication called Clozapine, which has rehabilitated me profoundly.
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The country's last supplies of antipsychotic medication were vanishing, and Mr. Simeone had gone weeks without the drug that controls his schizophrenia.
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A man has won $8 billion in punitive damages from Johnson & Johnson over claims that antipsychotic drugs gave him breasts without warning.
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But there were no differences in use of antipsychotic medications, although use was quite low to start, at less than 10 percent.
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In fact, Latuda is one of 10 "second generation" antipsychotic medications, many available in generic forms, that essentially work the same way.
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A trial of any antipsychotic is around six weeks, and 25 weeks is all that's needed to realize that one isn't working.
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Finally, on Wikipedia, Vincent read about a condition called akathisia, a disorder of distress and restlessness sometimes caused by antipsychotic and antidepressant medications.
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There's a huge debate in the medical community about the safety of taking antidepressant and antipsychotic medication during pregnancy and the postpartum period.
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Yet this study showed that 61 percent of patients did not receive any antipsychotic medications, and 41 percent did not receive any psychotherapy.
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Before he goes in to see Rafael, I ask the guy in the tie-dyed shirt if he's ever been given antipsychotic medication.
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Desperate, by the time he was 19, they dragged him to a psychiatrist, who prescribed an antipsychotic drug, a tranquilizer and an antidepressant.
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Immediately upon entering the gallery, I faced the nearly eight-foot-tall, exalted, fantastical, glowing, abstract, minimalist icon: "Untitled (Sleepiness, Antipsychotic, Pain)" (2219).
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She stopped taking her antipsychotic drug and began trying to solicit sex from passing drivers and swap alcohol for drugs with neighborhood children.
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David Egilman was an expert witness in a lawsuit alleging Eli Lilly & Co's antipsychotic drug Zyprexa could cause excessive weight gain and diabetes.
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Now, Baker's medical team says he'd been a "model patient" who knows he has to take antipsychotic medication, according to the Canadian Press.
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Right now, she's on an antipsychotic medicine, an anti-anxiety medicine, and an antidepressant, and all of them help her deal with the voices.
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All were forced to admit to having a mental illness, mostly schizophrenia, and agree to take antipsychotic drugs as a condition of their release.
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I saw a woman who had fried her brain with meth and who, with an antipsychotic, is able to function and keep from harming.
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Also, research conducted in the Netherlands suggests that anti-inflammatory drugs used in conjunction with antipsychotic drugs may be more effective than antipsychotics alone.
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In October, his girlfriend, Olivia Parker, found him dead in their Laos hotel from a mix of alcohol, sleeping pills, antidepressants and antipsychotic medicine.
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Still, antipsychotic use remained substantially higher among foster children than other Medicaid-insured and privately insured children from 13 to 21, the research shows.
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In facilities implementing the program, staff received training in techniques for facilitating social interaction and education in the effects and risks of antipsychotic medications.
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There's also evidence that if dementia patients become over-reliant on antipsychotic meds, their risk of stroke and of death rises, the researchers note.
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Manufactured by Otsuka and Proteus Digital Health, the pill is a variation on antipsychotic medication Abilify, used with patients suffering from mental health disorders.
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Nearly one quarter of patients were taking at least one antidepressant or antipsychotic medication, some of which have weight gain as a side effect.
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Antipsychotic medications would have substantially reversed if not eliminated the paranoid ideas and fears that had crippled her capacity to realize her innate potential.
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Previous efforts to influence overprescribing of opioids, and an earlier study from one of the researchers on antipsychotic medications, failed to make much difference.
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Antipsychotic medications like haloperidol and risperidone, which are often given for anxiety and agitation, can increase the risk of death in people with dementia.
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The government has long-recognized the problem of overusing antipsychotic medications and is required to monitor the use of such drugs, the report shows.
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For example, certain antipsychotic medications can cause people to have uncontrollable tics, tremors, and muscle movements, and these behaviors can look strange to others.
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Increasingly, research shows the beneficial properties of CBD include being antiemetic, anticonvulsant, antipsychotic, anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant, anti-tumoral/anti-cancer, and anti-depressant.
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Multiple guidelines say that if a person hasn't responded to any two antipsychotic drugs, or can't tolerate their side effects, clozapine should be prescribed.
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On his intake forms, the nurse noted he was bipolar and on antipsychotic medications, and suffered maladies including diabetes, heart pain and rheumatoid arthritis.
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In November of 103 he published research that suggested the use of antipsychotic medication could radically reduce rates of reoffending for high risk criminals.
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At the Julian Hospital, three months after dementia patients were moved into a redesigned ward in 2012, use of antipsychotic medication fell by nearly 40%.
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A federal magistrate judge is allowing plaintiffs suing the makers of antipsychotic drug Abilify to take additional depositions based on newly disclosed company audit reports.
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Bristol-Myers Squibb will have to produce additional discovery requested by plaintiffs in the multidistrict litigation over antipsychotic drug Abilify, a judge ordered on Tuesday.
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Otsuka Pharmaceutical recently tried a similar tactic to shield its big-selling antipsychotic, Abilify, from generic competition by getting it approved for a rare disease.
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Between 2014 and mid-2017, inspectors issued more than 7,000 citations to facilities for violations tied to the use of antipsychotic medications, the report shows.
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Among the goals is an expectation that nursing facilities which still overuse antipsychotic medications will decrease their use by 15% by the end of 2019.
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The Chicago Tribune reported that an autopsy showed he died of a reaction to an antipsychotic drug and also had bruises and abrasions on his body.
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These include genes associated with plasma levels of LDL cholesterol and vitamin D, eating disorders, visceral fat accumulation, rheumatoid arthritis, schizophrenia, and response to antipsychotic drugs.
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All but one of the pseudopatients were released with diagnoses of schizophrenia, and were released only on the condition that they agree to take antipsychotic prescriptions.
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In the center, folding tables hold hundreds of bingo cards, sorted alphabetically by generic drug name, from the blood pressure drug acebutolol to the antipsychotic ziprasidone.
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The patient, who had a history of psychotic symptoms, had been admitted to a rehabilitation center for cannabis and ketamine abuse and was taking antipsychotic drugs.
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She sees a therapist once a week, and once a month a nurse at the community health center administers a shot of the antipsychotic drug Abilify.
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A man has been awarded $8 billion in damages over claims he wasn't forewarned his antipsychotic medicine from Johnson & Johnson could cause him to develop breasts.
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When the session grows audibly tense, Audrey charges in, demanding that Farid diagnose her son and give him a different medication than the antipsychotic he's prescribed.
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Because Nuplazid is a new kind of antipsychotic that targets a different receptor in the brain, its maker claims it comes with fewer toxic side effects.
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He had trouble making eye contact during the interview, continuously rubbed his face and stuck out his tongue compulsively, a possible side effect of antipsychotic medications.
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The antipsychotic drugs I take for my schizophrenia have caused me to develop something called tardive dyskinesia, which, for me, manifests as facial grimacing and hand tremors.
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The drug, Ingrezza, is the first treatment to be approved for the irreversible disorder, which occurs in 503 percent to 8 percent of patients taking antipsychotic drugs.
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She had tried many antipsychotic and mood stabilizing medications, and was still taking six drugs when, at age 70, she began a keto diet to lose weight.
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In 1954, the F.D.A., for the first time, approved a drug as a treatment for a mental disorder: the antipsychotic chlorpromazine (marketed with the brand name Thorazine).
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Over the next 10 years, he was hospitalized several times and prescribed antipsychotic medications to treat bipolar disorder, which he often did not take, his parents said.
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The condition can be triggered by antipsychotic medications that affect dopamine levels in the brain, as well as by other drugs, including stimulants like amphetamines and cocaine.
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Antipsychotics are commonly used to treat bipolar but can also be used for fibromyalgia Antipsychotic medications affect the brain&aposs circuits that control mood, thinking, and perception.
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He finally started to come out of the psychosis with the help of several antipsychotic drugs, and he moved back home with his parents in San Clemente.
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Antipsychotic medications are relatively safe and effective, and treatment is important for the health, safety, and quality of life of people with schizophrenia and their friends and family.
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Antipsychotic drugs, which are often prescribed to treat these behavioral symptoms, come with some concerning side-effects, such as an increased risk of stroke and death, Watt said.
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The agency had already banned imports from the plant in July, except for some drugs, such as the cancer medicine carmustine, the antipsychotic haloperidol, and the antibiotic amikacin.
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Another letter warned primary care doctors that the federal government had flagged them for prescribing too many antipsychotic medications to patients who could be harmed by the drugs.
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It can end the inappropriate administration of antipsychotic medications by enforcing regulations and penalties, improving inspections, requiring informed consent, and ensuring adequate staffing and training in care facilities.
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" One man at Eloy Federal Contract Facility in Arizona was supposed to receive antipsychotic medication — but allegedly got antidepressants instead, the memo said, "which likely worsened his psychosis.
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They turned to online testimonials where many drugs users go to report their experiences with a great variety of substances, from psychedelics and deliriants to sedatives and antipsychotic drugs.
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The company is facing an onslaught of litigation over its talc products and other business segments, with claims involving opioids, transvaginal pelvic mesh implants and the antipsychotic drug Risperdal.
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Internal company communications show Avanir salespeople were directed to specifically target facilities that historically used high levels of antipsychotic medications -- facilities that would see Nuedexta as an attractive alternative.
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A Philadelphia judge on Friday slashed an $8 billion jury verdict in a lawsuit over the marketing of the antipsychotic drug Risperdal, reducing the punitive damages to $6.8 million.
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Katz, who was 20113, was prescribed a number of psychiatric medications, including an antipsychotic, and saw "a succession of psychiatrists," according to a 2006 letter from the father's attorney.
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Court documents state that Katz suffered emotionally as a child and was prescribed psychiatric drugs, including Lexapro, an antidepressant, and Risperidone, an antipsychotic medication sometimes used to treat schizophrenia.
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My parents wouldn't have that, so the doctors switched her to Clozaril, a newer antipsychotic and the only one that actually alleviated her symptoms without turning her into a zombie.
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Another will compare the effectiveness and safety of three strategies — using magnetic fields to stimulate nerve cells in the brain, adding an antipsychotic medication or switching to a specific antidepressant.
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In the study, 396 patients with moderate-to-severe psychotic symptoms were given Acadia's treatment pimavanserin or placebo as an add-on to their current antipsychotic treatment, the company said.
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Adding pimavanserin to existing antipsychotic treatment showed a consistent trend in improvement of psychotic symptoms, however, the results did not show statistical significance in achieving the main goal, Acadia said.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. jury on Friday awarded $70 million to the family of a boy who developed breasts after taking Johnson & Johnson unit Janssen Pharmaceuticals' antipsychotic drug Risperdal.
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The Japanese drug maker Otsuka Pharmaceutical won the approval for an upgraded version of Abilify, the antipsychotic drug first approved 15 years ago to treat schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression.
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The National Alliance on Mental Illness, an advocacy group for patients, said the proposal "could limit access to long-acting injectable antipsychotic medications" used to treat schizophrenia and other disorders.
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AstraZeneca has had five new products recently added to the country's National Reimbursement Drug List - Onglyza for diabetes, cancer drugs Iressa and Faslodex, heart medicine Brilinta and antipsychotic treatment Seroquel.
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She was started on a new combination of medications: lithium, to stabilize her moods, and Ativan, a benzodiazepine, in addition to the antipsychotic Seroquel, which she had already been taking.
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Where it stands: A jury recently said J&J had to pay $8 billion to a man who claimed he got enlarged breasts from taking the company's antipsychotic drug Risperdal.
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The company is facing more than 13,000 lawsuits tied to antipsychotic drug Risperdal as well as a range of lawsuits involving its baby powder, opioids, medical devices and other products.
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And last week, a Philadelphia jury ordered J&J to pay $8 billion in punitive damages for downplaying risks that its antipsychotic drug Risperdal could promote breast growth in boys.
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The agency also said its review had found "potentially concerning prescribing patterns," such as the use of Nuplazid with other antipsychotic drugs or with medications that can cause heart issues.
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He didn't discuss the treatment he received, but the National Institute of Mental Health states that evidence-based treatments for depression include cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and antidepressant and antipsychotic medications.
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Antipsychotic drugs are designed to block dopamine receptors, but in some patients the signal gets amped up and more dopamine is released in a region of the brain that controls movement.
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A federal judge in Delaware has upheld the validity of an Allergan PLC patent on the company's antipsychotic drug Saphris rebuffing generic drugmakers' efforts to sell copycat versions of the drug.
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For example, cognitive-behavioral therapy has shown efficacy in reducing the incidence and severity of a schizophrenia diagnosis and the need for antipsychotic medication, compared to a minimally treated control group.
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A jury in Philadelphia ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $8bn in punitive damages to a man who claims his childhood use of Risperdal, an antipsychotic drug, caused him to grow breasts.
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One daughter, who'd assumed her 20143-year-old mother's decline was irreversible, said she saw her mom come back to life after the two years of being on antipsychotic drugs stopped.
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Neanderthal mutations also turned up in genes that influence how people respond to antipsychotic drugs, their levels of "bad" cholesterol and Vitamin D, and how much fat they pack around their middles.
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According to a court brief, children were forced to take medications including benzodiazepine tranquilizers, which have addictive potential, as well as mood stabilizers generally reserved to treat bipolar disorder, and antipsychotic medications.
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After the pair committed to seek marriage counseling, they saw a psychiatrist — who gave Barnett a diagnosis on the bipolar spectrum and prescribed her an antipsychotic drug, according to the TV newsmagazine.
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" But he added, "While pre-clinical or animal studies show CBD may have anti-anxiety properties and may be antipsychotic, for the majority of uses, there is not a lot of evidence.
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The Italian pharmaceuticals group said on Tuesday it had signed an exclusive license agreement with Hungary's Gedeon Richter to commercialise cariprazine, a new antipsychotic drug, in Western Europe, Algeria, Tunisia and Turkey.
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Currently, there is no drug approved in the United States specifically for psychosis linked to Parkinson's disease and common antipsychotic treatments including Quetiapine, Clozapine, Risperidone and Zyprexa are used for these patients.
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On Monday, the FDA approved Abilify MyCite, an upgraded version of the antipsychotic medicine used to treat bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, and major depressive disorder when taken in combination with an antidepressant.
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Last week, a Philadelphia jury awarded $8 billion in punitive damages to a Maryland man who said he hadn't been warned that the antipsychotic drug Risperdal could cause enlarged breasts in boys.
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The company's results also were dented by generic competition for its antidepressant Cymbalta drug in Europe and Canada, for its antipsychotic treatment Zyprexa in Japan and cancer drug Alimta in several countries.
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Drugmaker AstraZeneca has agreed to pay $110 million to settle two lawsuits brought by the state of Texas claiming that it fraudulently marketed the antipsychotic drug Seroquel and Crestor for high cholesterol.
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Akathisia is a fairly common and well-known side effect of antipsychotic medications, commonly used to treat disorders like schizophrenia but increasingly given for a variety of mental health complaints, including depression.
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Only 3.9 percent of the children in total, about 42,000, were later hospitalized and diagnosed with any mental health disorder, while 5.2 percent, 56,000 children, later received a prescription for an antipsychotic drug.
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A federal appeals court on Friday upheld the dismissal of a whistleblower lawsuit that claimed Bristol-Myers Squibb Co and Otsuka Pharmaceutical engaged in a scheme to improperly promote the antipsychotic drug Abilify.
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Plaintiffs suing Bristol-Myers Squibb and Otsuka Pharmaceutical over compulsive behavior allegedly triggered by antipsychotic drug Abilify have joined the drugmakers in requesting that a new multidistrict litigation be created for the litigation.
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This was driven by the losses of exclusivity for its antidepressant Cymbalta drug in Europe and Canada, its antipsychotic treatment Zyprexa in Japan and cancer drug Alimta in several countries, the company said.
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In the study, 396 patients with moderate-to-severe psychotic symptoms were given Acadia's treatment pimavanserin or placebo as an add-on to their current antipsychotic treatment, the company said in a statement.
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Other emails from managers show how the government's crackdown on dangerous antipsychotic drugs -- which were once widely used to control unruly and erratic behavior in nursing home patients -- created an opportunity for Avanir.
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Most of these residents are older and have dementia, and researchers say the antipsychotic medications are administered as a cost-effective "chemical restraint" to suppress behaviors and ease the load on overwhelmed staff.
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Alkermes is also developing ALKS 3831, which was found to help keep weight gain, a common side effect of antipsychotic medicines, under check and is expected to submit its U.S. marketing application this year.
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A Pennsylvania appeals court has granted a young Texas man another chance to prove at trial that he developed breasts after he was prescribed Johnson & Johnson's antipsychotic drug Risperdal when he was a child.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Drugmaker AstraZeneca has agreed to pay $110 million to settle two lawsuits brought by the state of Texas claiming that it fraudulently marketed the antipsychotic drug Seroquel and Crestor for high cholesterol.
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Example:A common dose of antipsychotic drug aripiprazole costs $0.30 per pill, but the median Medicare drug plan priced it at $2.58 per pill in the first quarter of this year, according to 46brooklyn's analysis.
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"Because the (Supreme Court) test was met, we further conclude that the forced administration of antipsychotic medications to Dear is not an unconstitutional deprivation of his liberty," the judges ruled in their unanimous decision.
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A compelling new paper in the journal Schizophrenia Research reported two cases in which patients with schizophrenia who were able to go off of their antipsychotic medications after being treated with a keto diet.
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Yet over the next three weeks, he said, as Ms. Ortega recovered from surgery and started taking antidepressants and antipsychotic medication, she did start to report to psychiatrists that she was hearing disembodied voices.
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Earlier, Glover, who described himself as bipolar, told medical staff he had not taken his antipsychotic and antidepressant prescriptions for one to two days before his arrest and made bad decisions when not medicated.
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And the antipsychotic paper found that doctors wrote fewer prescriptions both for the target group — patients who would not benefit from the drugs — and those who, in line with their diagnoses, would have benefited.
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But after adjusting the numbers to account for other factors that may increase the risk of birth defects, the researchers found no increased risk for either type of antipsychotic drug - with the exception of risperidone.
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Example: A common dose of antipsychotic drug aripiprazole costs $0.30 per pill, but the median Medicare drug plan priced it at $2.58 per pill in the first quarter of this year, according to 46brooklyn's analysis.
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Johnson & Johnson's shares fell 2886.10% after a jury awarded $21.21 billion in punitive damages to a man who accused it of failing to warn that young men using its antipsychotic drug Risperdal could grow breasts.
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By Andrew M. Seaman (Reuters Health) - Pregnant women on antipsychotic drugs can continue taking most of those medications without worrying the pills will increase the risk of their newborns having birth defects, a new study suggests.
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A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the validity of Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma Co Ltd's patent on its depression drug Latuda, ensuring the Japanese drug company can maintain a monopoly on the antipsychotic for another year.
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The 133-year-old Johnson & Johnson brand is under pressure as the company faces more than 100,000 lawsuits over the safety and marketing of products like opioids, transvaginal pelvic mesh implants and the antipsychotic drug Risperdal.
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In 1985, the paper had published a story, "Schizophrenics 'Wild' on Weak Generic," describing how "all hell broke loose" at a veterans' hospital after the psychiatric unit switched from a brand-name antipsychotic to a generic.
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He said he and his team eventually learned that the man, who had stopped taking his antipsychotic medication, had taken a bus to San Diego and was later found in a psychiatric ward on Staten Island.
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Johnson & Johnson won the mid-trial dismissal on Monday of a lawsuit by a Pennsylvania man who claimed he developed breasts after taking the antipsychotic drug Risperdal, which is produced by the company's Janssen Pharmaceuticals unit.
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He had to start the application process from scratch after he got home, making increasingly frantic calls and scrambling to find his birth certificate and other paperwork as his supply of lithium and perphenazine, an antipsychotic, dwindled.
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"Rather than taking someone off an antipsychotic" and opting to treat the patient in ways that don't require medication, "providers search for a different 'magic bullet,'" said Helen Kales, a geriatric psychiatrist and University of Michigan professor.
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The director at the facility, Oakmont of Mariner Point in Alameda, California, told the patient's son, Jason Laveglia, that the medication wasn't an antipsychotic and threatened to evict his mother if she wasn't put on the medication.
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On the positive side, the study did find that rates of prescribing antipsychotic medication for children in foster care and other low-income children insured by Medicaid had leveled off after rising rapidly in the past decade.
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Johnson & Johnson, which makes Duragesic, a fentanyl skin patch, has long had a reputation for being willing to risk jury trials, notably in cases involving the antipsychotic drug Risperdal and, this week, Xarelto, the blood thinner medication.
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During their first visit — nearly two weeks earlier — the doctors at the local hospital in their Queens neighborhood gave him a medication, chlorpromazine, an antipsychotic that has been shown to stop hiccups, though it's not clear why.
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A jury on Tuesday said drugmaker Johnson & Johnson must pay $8 billion to a man who accused the company of failing to properly warn that its antipsychotic Risperdal could cause breast growth in men, according to Reuters.
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Citing a desperate need for a seriously ill population, the Food and Drug Administration approved Nuplazid in 2016 despite a conclusion from the government's medical reviewer that the benefits of the antipsychotic medication didn't outweigh its risks.
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The recall was the latest blow to the more than 130-year-old U.S. healthcare conglomerate that is facing thousands of lawsuits over a variety of products, including baby powder, opioids, medical devices, and the antipsychotic Risperdal.
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Last year, for example, European scientists reported that patients with schizophrenia who were given 1,000 milligrams of CBD in addition to their regular antipsychotic medications experienced fewer hallucinations and racing thoughts compared with those on a placebo.
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The drug, ALKS 3831, is a tablet composed of Alkermes' new drug samidorphan and olanzapine, and is designed to provide the antipsychotic effect of olanzapine while mitigating its associated weight gain, the company said on a conference call.
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Mr Trump is not the first president to raise questions about who is fit to control nuclear weapons—consider Richard Nixon's drinking or Kennedy's reliance on painkillers, anti-anxiety drugs and, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, an antipsychotic.
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Typical medications used to treat long-term hiccups, according to the Mayo Clinic, are the muscle relaxer Baclofen; antipsychotic Chlorpromazine; and Metoclopramide, which increases muscle contraction in the upper digestive tract and is typically used to treat reflux.
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Abilify MyCite is not approved to treat patients with dementia-related psychosis and contains a boxed warning alerting health care professionals that elderly patients with dementia-related psychosis treated with antipsychotic drugs are at an increased risk of death.
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After a month in the hospital, two months of a full-time outpatient program, the temporary help of an antipsychotic medication and years of therapy with a new psychologist, Amanda made an impressive recovery, learning to manage her condition.
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I was prescribed some medication that ruined my life, and then I was prescribed some medication that didn't ruin my life as much (I could see after the fourth antipsychotic I tried, at least, which was a definite plus).
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For more severe and debilitating cases, antipsychotic medication, botulinum toxin injections and implantation of a deep brain stimulation device might be considered, although all of those options are riskier, can have unpleasant side effects and are not entirely effective.
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Some family members in dark over dangers The Food and Drug Administration has not deemed antipsychotic drugs an effective or safe way to treat symptoms associated with dementia -- including dementia-related psychosis, for which there is no approved drug.
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Earlier this month, a Pennsylvania jury also ruled that J&J must pay $8 billion in punitive damages following a man's claim that the company didn't warn young men that they could grow breasts after using the antipsychotic drug Risperdal.
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Data from a late stage trial showed that patients on Alkermes' drug had a mean weight gain of 4.21 percent after six months, compared with an average gain of 6.59 percent in patients receiving olanzapine, the most commonly used antipsychotic drug.
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When Lady Gaga takes her top off in Five Foot Two, it's clear that she's trying to appear naked, emotionally and otherwise—yet she struggles to articulate her history of chronic pain, sexual assault trauma, and reliance on antipsychotic medications.
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A California state appeals court on Wednesday threw out a $5.6 million jury verdict against Johnson & Johnson's Janssen research unit over the death of a 25-year-old man during a clinical trial of an injectable version of antipsychotic drug Risperdal.
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Released in 2013, Prescriber Checkup catalogs the prescribing habits of hundreds of thousands of doctors in the US. Its focus was to provide reporters with data to find out which doctors were prescribing painkillers and antipsychotic drugs in dangerous quantities.
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Bristol-Myers Squibb Co and Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co are asking the judge overseeing the multidistrict litigation for antipsychotic drug Abilify to dismiss the cases of some 550 plaintiffs unless they provide more information about their Abilify use and medical history.
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And with higher performance by nonprofits on other critical indicators like a 9 percent lower re-hospitalization rate and 10 percent less use of antipsychotic medications, sponsorship should be a significant consideration when looking to identify high-quality nursing homes.
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Johnson & Johnson must pay $8 billion in punitive damages to a man who previously won $680,000 over his claims that it failed to warn that young men using its antipsychotic drug Risperdal could grow breasts, a Philadelphia jury said on Tuesday.
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A court ruled that Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) must pay $8 billion in punitive damages to a man who previously won $680,000 over his claims that it failed to warn that young men using its antipsychotic drug Risperdal could grow breasts.
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A Pennsylvania appeals court on Tuesday upheld a $76.6 million jury award to a man who claimed he developed breasts after using Johnson & Johnson's antipsychotic drug Risperdal as a child and cleared the way for him to seek punitive damages.
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One common example is the use of anti-Parkinson therapy for symptoms caused by antipsychotic drugs, with the anti-Parkinson drugs in turn causing new symptoms like a precipitous drop in blood pressure or delirium that result in yet another prescription.
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"The techs would come in: 'So-and-so is getting me on my nerves watching TV and won't quit talking; come over here and give her a PRN'" — a shot that could contain a sedative such as Ativan or an antipsychotic like Haldol.
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One report filed by a nurse practitioner in 2015 detailed the rapid decline of an 86-year-old Alzheimer's patient after Nuedexta was added to the psychotropic medications she took including Zoloft (an antidepressant), Xanax (an antianxiety drug) and Risperidone (an antipsychotic).
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Riordan, who is not a doctor, said that she had recommended Nuedexta after learning about the medication from a local psychiatrist and had seen it help a number of other aggressive dementia patients without the dangers and sedative effects of an antipsychotic.
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Mr. Bahnasawy's family insists that the F.B.I. manipulated him into carrying out acts he would not have done on his own, pointing out that he has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and was taking antipsychotic medication at the time of his arrest.
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About 2100 drugs or classes of drugs are subject to such risk-management programs, including the narcolepsy drug sodium oxybate, the antipsychotic drug olanzapine and the acne drug isotretinoin, which used to be branded as Accutane and can cause severe birth defects.
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The new Medicaid agreement in Oklahoma may help Alkermes in its sales pitch to doctors, including for Aristada Initio - approved last month as the first antipsychotic injection that does not require patients to begin treatment by taking oral pills for several weeks.
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Eli Lilly and Co may move forward with a bid to have Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd and Teva Pharmaceuticals held in contempt for violating a 12-year-old order blocking them from selling generic versions of antipsychotic drug Zyprexa, a U.S. judge has ruled.
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In my last column I mentioned that I used to take Seroquel, an antipsychotic to help me sleep, in college; I actually ended up going off it the summer after I graduated, because occasionally it made me sleep so heavily I'd miss an entire day.
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Moreover, the analysis in Health Affairs showed that more than one-third of foster children given antipsychotic drugs failed to receive counseling or other psychosocial interventions, such as anger-management training, which doctors and policymakers believe should have been the first line of treatment.
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He said that he never broke any laws and that he only prescribed Nuedexta if they suffered from PBA or he thought it could benefit them, noting that it had far fewer side effects than dangerous antipsychotic medications often used to treat these patients.
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And it includes Rodrigo Pessoa, a Brazilian equestrian show jumper who received a gold medal from the 453 Olympics in Athens at a 2005 ceremony in Rio de Janeiro after the horse of the winner, Cian O'Connor of Ireland, tested positive for two antipsychotic drugs.
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Meanwhile, antipsychotic drugs (such as Abilify), which are approved as add-ons if other drugs aren't working alone, bring on seizures in rare cases and, according to the most recent warning from the FDA, the uncontrollable urge to binge eat, gamble, and have sex.
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CBD has been found to reduce the negative effects of THC, particularly in terms of its ability to produce paranoia and psychotic experiences—so much so that researchers have looked at CBD as a potential antipsychotic medication with far fewer side effects than current drugs.
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Johnson & Johnson — Shares of Johnson & Johnson fell 2% after a Philadelphia court jury ruled the pharmaceutical company must pay $8 billion to a man who claims that the company failed to warn young men using its antipsychotic drug Risperdal that they could grow breasts.
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Moss's decision on Tuesday is in line with a ruling last year by another judge in the same court, who allowed generic versions of Otsuka's antipsychotic drug Abilify to go on the market even though the drug had recently been approved for a rare disease.
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The doctor that gave me my final diagnosis insisted on immediately initiating a treatment with haloperidol, a high-potency antipsychotic medication only given to extreme cases (mainly of schizophrenia), which had nothing to do with the episode of facial dystonia I was suffering at that time.
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" Forensic psychiatrist Mark J. Mills, who was hired by Reveal to analyze the 420 pages of medical records and statements in the lawsuits, explained, "You don't have to be a rocket scientist here; it looks like they're trying to control agitation and aggressive behavior with antipsychotic drugs.
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State efforts to oversee the use of antipsychotics in children have focused on the need to first try behavioral interventions, to monitor children prescribed antipsychotics for diabetes risk and to curb the use of prescribing more than one antipsychotic at a time, the study authors write.
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Dozens of men suing Johnson & Johnson over its antipsychotic drug Risperdal are preparing for upcoming trials in Philadelphia state court over claims the medication caused them to develop breasts, with the company facing the prospect of stiff punitive damages in trials scheduled to begin on Dec. 3.
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Medicare beneficiaries in Hawaii used fewer opioid pain medications, fewer antibiotics, fewer antipsychotic drugs and fewer drugs labeled as risky for seniors on average than patients in any other state in 2015, according to a ProPublica analysis of data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
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After accounting for factors such as mood and anxiety disorders diagnosed before pregnancy, exposure to antidepressants and antipsychotic medications, the researchers found that women who used benzodiazepines early in pregnancy were 1.85 times more likely than those who did not take the drugs to have a miscarriage.
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A study conducted by researchers at Columbia and Rutgers Universities and published in 2009 found that children covered by Medicaid are provided with antipsychotic drugs, used to treat conditions such as bipolar disorder, at a rate four times higher than privately insured children, and often for less severe conditions.
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"It looks like the same things that help any person lose weight work well in those taking antidepressant or antipsychotic medications: making lifestyle changes for reducing calories, engaging in physical activity, and meeting regularly with weight loss specialists," McTiernan, who wasn't involved in the study, said by email.
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J&J shares have been under pressure this year, widely underperforming the S&P healthcare sector, as the company faces more than 210.28,000 lawsuits tied to antipsychotic drug Risperdal as well as a range of potentially costly lawsuits involving its baby powder, opioids, medical devices and other products.
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According to Dr. Caroline Apovian, president of the Obesity Society, frequently prescribed medications that may cause weight gain include Benadryl, Ambien, benzodiazepines, older antidepressant and antipsychotic medications, Paxil, beta-blockers (for high blood pressure), several diabetes medications including insulin, sulfonylureas and thialidazones, and some contraceptive methods, especially Depo-Provera.
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That means one in three kids in the systems across those states largely went without critical oversight of their prescribed medications — antidepressants, antipsychotic drugs and sedatives, for example — despite repeated calls to action from advocates, physicians and even government investigators to do so over the last several years.
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Shares of J&J fell 2.93% Wednesday and were down slightly for the year after a jury in Pennsylvania ruled J&J must pay $8 billion in punitive damages following a man's claim that the company didn't warn young men that they could grow breasts after using the antipsychotic drug Risperdal.
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Before her illness she had been a student with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder, dutifully swallowing an antipsychotic medication; then a mild rash and swollen lips turned into toxic epidermal necrolysis syndrome, the one-in-a-million, dreaded pharmacological complication that caused her skin to bubble up and melt away.
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Senator Elizabeth Warren, Democrat of Massachusetts, said that Mr. Azar "helped manage the fallout" when Lilly in 2009 paid a criminal fine of more than a half-billion dollars to settle accusations that it had promoted an antipsychotic drug, Zyprexa, for uses not approved by the Food and Drug Administration.
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On Thursday, Johnson & Johnson agreed to pay $117 million in a settlement over the deceptive marketing of transvaginal pelvic mesh implants, and a jury this month ordered it to pay $8 billion to a Maryland man who accused the company of playing down the risks associated with the antipsychotic drug Risperdal.
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This was driven largely by two events: the 224 introduction of Thorazine, the first successful antipsychotic drug, which stabilized many patients enough that life outside the walls of a hospital could be considered; and a 8113 federal law that prohibited the newly established Medicaid from paying for patients in state psychiatric hospitals.
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Norma Jeane carried a wooden cane and a black handbag, in which she kept her Bible, an empty pickle jar that she used as a wallet, a cracked cell phone with no battery, a magnifying glass, and an old bottle for Seroquel, an antipsychotic medication used to treat bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.
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With the discovery of new antipsychotic drugs, an effort began to empty out state psychiatric hospitals, sparking a historic shift to community-based care that was buoyed by the Kennedy administration's 1963 Community Mental Health Act, which funded public and nonprofit community mental health centers (CMHCs), as well as the advent of Medicaid.
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A. The biggest thing I'm concerned about is the incredible prescribing of psychiatric drugs to kids today, such as benzodiazepines like Ativan for anxiety, S.S.R.I.s like Zoloft for depression, antipsychotic drugs like Seroquel, along with drugs like Adderall and Ritalin for A.D.H.D., which is a diagnosis that is given way too freely.
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Here's what is known about the potential link between anticholinergic medicines and dementia: Anticholinergic drugs include the antipsychotic clozapine; the bladder drug darifenacin (marketed as Enablex); the anti-nausea drug scopolamine; the bronchodilator ipratropium; the muscle relaxant tizanidine; antihistamines such as diphenhydramine (brand names include Benadryl), and antidepressants such as paroxetine (brand names include Paxil).
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Around the time of his recusal, Inamed was petitioning the FDA for reapproval of its controversial silicone breast implants, VaxGen was still trying to develop an anthrax vaccine despite withdrawing its AIDS vaccines after faulty test results were uncovered, and Eli Lilly was facing charges that it was illegally marketing its antipsychotic drug Zyprexa and hiding serious side effects.
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After he was injected with haloperidol—an antipsychotic drug that decreases excitement in the brain and is frequently used to treat psychosis, schizophrenia, and Tourette's syndrome—he says he dragged himself against a wall, feeling trapped in his own body, without any control over the movement of his arms and legs, unable to react to that internal tension.
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Youth migrant shelters — there are roughly 100 such facilities housing more than 10,000 minors across the country — have been cited for a long list of abuses, including physical abuse, sexual abuse, blatant medical neglect, the forcible injection of antipsychotic medications, the unlawful restraint of children in distress and harsh rules that prohibit even siblings from hugging one another.
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"If you rewind the clock a month before these papers came out, there was no example of a really simple, easily scalable intervention that could move prescribing by a significant magnitude," said Adam Sacarny, an assistant professor of health policy at Columbia and a co-author of the antipsychotic prescribing paper, which appeared in JAMA Psychiatry last month.
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Trump administration officials say that drug makers have little incentive to negotiate because they know that Medicare's prescription drug plans must cover almost all drugs in the six protected classes: antidepressants; antipsychotic medicines, used to treat schizophrenia and certain related disorders; immunosuppressant drugs, to prevent rejection of organ transplants; anti-epilepsy drugs; antiretrovirals, used in treating H.I.V./AIDS; and many cancer drugs.
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After the GAO's report, the U.S. Health and Human Services' Office of the Inspector General found in a 2015 review of kids on Medicaid that there were serious "quality-of-care concerns" in the treatment of children with second-generation antipsychotic drugs, such as poor monitoring of kids, potential for incorrect treatment and too many prescription drugs with harmful side effects.
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For a few months during my senior year I took the antipsychotic Seroquel as part of one psychiatrist's valiant quest to make me go to sleep, and it was so effective that, looking back, remembering how much other stuff I was still messing around with at the time gives me that slightly shaky feeling you get when a car nearly hits you but does not.
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Prices in other high-income countries are on average 56 percent lower than in the U.S. and range from 43 percent less in Japan to 67 percent less in France compared to in the U.S. Some drugs, such as those used to treat cardiovascular, musculoskeletal and nervous system conditions, cost on average of about 80 percent less outside the U.S. Take the antipsychotic Abilify, for example.
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Read more: Lady Gaga told Oprah she takes an antipsychotic, and without it she would &aposspiral very frequently&aposThe last decade showed how social media could topple governments and make social change — and it&aposs only getting crazier from hereUnder pressure, Michael Bloomberg faces a new court challenge to his company&aposs use of non-disclosure agreements in discrimination casesHarvey Weinstein&aposs trial is about to begin.
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An elderly woman who died of an untreated bedsore after being discharged from a hospital; patients with kidney failure who received abbreviated dialysis treatment because the centers were they were treated didn't have enough fuel to keep powering their generators; a man who suffered from mental illness who committed suicide after not having access to his antipsychotic medication — these are just a few of those who died in the weeks and months after Maria hit.
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