anti-psychotic drug
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drug
noun[C]
uk/drʌɡ/us/drʌɡ/
any natural or artificially made chemical that is used as ...
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A three-year old was treated for poisoning from an atypical, mind-alteringanti-psychoticdrug.
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It includes money for anti-hypertensives, diabetic drugs, and atypical anti-psychotic drugs.
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He is being treated with anti-psychotic drugs, but he believes that his condition is influenced by satellites.
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The anti-psychotic drugs, introduced in the mid-1950s, helped many patients to live almost normal lives in the community.
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One says that prescribing anti-psychotic drugs is "always involved", and the other says that they may cause increased deaths.
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The evidence shows that there is vast over-prescribing of neuroleptic anti-psychotic drugs in residential homes.
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All independent studies have found vast over-prescription of powerful, anti-psychotic drugs.
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There are currently no plans to assess the advantages of the electronic monitoring of the confused elderly in residential homes as an alternative to the use of anti-psychotic drugs.
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He has conveniently forgotten that, as part of our strategy to modernise mental health, we are releasing significant new resources to help purchase new anti-psychotic drugs.
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They are fed anti-psychotic drugs and sedatives.
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There is a wealth of evidence to suggest that anti-psychotic drugs are being administered to make the homes easier to run rather than to benefit the patients.
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Pages 98 and 99 of the national service framework appear to contain contradictory statements concerning the use of neuroleptics or anti-psychotic drugs.
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