Antipsychotics

Drugs in this class are primarily used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of psychosis. Many of these medications fall in the class known as phenothiazines . This category includes:

chlorpromazine hydrochloride (Thorazine)
fluphenazine (Permitil, Prolixin)
mesoridazine besylate (Serentil)
perphenazine (Trilafon)
prochlorperazine (Compazine)
promazine hydrochloride (Sparine)
promethazine hydrochloride (Anergan [injectable], Phenergan)
thioridazine hydrochloride (Mellaril)
trifluoperazine hydrochloride (Stelazine)
triflupromazine hydrochloride (Vesprin [injectable])
and others

Newer medications, risperidone (Risperdal), quetiapine (Seroquel), ziprasidone (Geodon), aripiprazole (Abilify), olanzapine (Zyprexa) and clozapine (Clozaril), are called atypical antipsychotics .

See Phenothiazines or Atypical Antipsychotics for more information.

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