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J Psychopharmacol
September 2022
Geriatric Psychiatry Division, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health/University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Drugs used to treat psychotic disorders ('antipsychotics') have been widely used in psychiatry since the introduction of chlorpromazine in the mid-1950s. The categorization of these drugs evolved in a piecemeal way, relying initially on grouping by chemical structure (e.g.
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