[Magdalen] Drug research.

[Allan Carr]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorpromazine

In the section headed "History", it was developed as a better alternative to a drug used to calm surgical patients. It was quickly tested in a mental hospital, with a dramatic effect on a manic patient who was discharged in three weeks.
It was marketed as Thorazine, replaced such treatments as shock therapy and psychosurgery and quickly emptied mental hospitals of patients with all sorts of psychoses.
It also led to the discovery of antidepressants.
If I recall correctly, there are 30,000 homeless living on the streets of Los Angeles, many of them psychotic. I'm not sure if most of them reject treatment with drugs like Thorazine.


> On Aug 17, 2016, at 2:25 PM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Thorazine was the first anti-psychotic (early 1950s)
> but IIRC was developed with the hope that it would treat malaria.
> 
> In its rudimentary clinical trials it was found to have other potentials.
> -M, who remembers patients with Tardive dyskinesia
> 
> On Wednesday, August 17, 2016, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
> oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> No.
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