EVALUATE ANTI-PSYCHOTIC DRUGS Flashcards
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FOR
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- Cole et al did a study examining effectiveness of anti psychotic drugs against a placebo
- found psychiatry could treat mental disorders in the same way as physical ones by using drugs
- 75% of those given drug considered much improved and only 25% of placebo
- none got worse similar to Somarro
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AGAINST
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- Rattenbacher found full compliance in only 54.2% of individuals with schiz partial compliance in 8.3% and non compliance in 37.5%
- suggests that real world anti psychotics may not be as effective
- found those who do not follow drug therapy pose a threat to others and themselves
- Tiihonen et al found a 37 fold increase in suicide in patients who stopped taking their meds
- NCISH reported 346 homicides had been committed by people with a history of schiz 29% of these had not been taking their meds
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APPLICATION
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- led to research in comparing a-typical and conventional
- Ravanic et al compared drugs and in 325 individuals with schiz over 5 years there was a significant difference in psychometric scores and favoured clopazine
- which also had fewer adverse effects
- suggests a typical are preferable when treating schiz however some respond better to conventional
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ALTERNATIVE
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- by assuming schiz is only due to biological factors this is reductionist and ignores other equally plausible explanations for schiz
