Dual Diagnosis Treatment

The older antipsychotic medications are notorious for their side effects.  Here is a description of the older antipsychotics used in treatment: Phenothiazines is the name of the largest of the five main classes of typical antipsychotic drugs.  There are three groups in the Phenothiazine class of antipsychotics: Aliphatic Compounds, Piperidines, and Piperazines. Among the Aliphatic […]

At one time in the near past, schizophrenia was treated with antipsychotics that had horrible side effects and were severely sedating.  The primary reason for all the side effects of antipsychotics in the past was that they focused primarily on the dopamine receptors in the brain and when you start messing with the dopamine receptors