Posted by ed_uk on January 6, 2007, at 13:39:21
In reply to Re: Patient paid to accept neuroleptic depot injec, posted by Klavot on January 6, 2007, at 12:13:29
Hi Klavot
>Where I live (South Africa), drugs like Zyprexa are not available in state hospitals because it is too expensive. They only use drugs like chlorpromazine. Even drugs like Zoloft are not used in state psychiatric facilities - they use tricyclics, because it is cheaper.
It's interesting to hear about South Africa. The UK was much slower to accept the use of atypicals than the US but things have changed a lot in recent years. Atypicals are now more widely used than typicals in the UK. Chlorpromazine and haloperidol have decreased in popularity. What you said about Zoloft was interesting. The situation in the UK is that some of the generic SSRIs are now even cheaper than the TCAs. Fluoxetine 20mg caps are the cheapest of all, the cost to the health service being about £2 per month!
Ed
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