Posted by Christ_empowered on July 2, 2022, at 11:40:14
I thought about it and...
do non-neuroleptic sedatives have any specific benefits in Schizophrenia and related disorders? I mean...they're still -just sedatives- , but...
isn't that what a lot of the agitated among us really need, anyway?
I remember some references to studies in the 60s-early 80s, but..low quality, the very definition of Schizophrenia was apparently a lot more broad back then...
plus...if I recall, those were short term. The one I remember off the top of my head was just for the prodromal phase. Valium did about as well as Prolixin, but I forget if the people were on stable neuroleptics or...?? as-needed antipsychotic treatment was tried, here and there...70s, maybe? E. Fuller Torrey says its disastrous. some more recent studies seem to show a subset of people who just bust out the neuroleptics for a couple of weeks at a time, here and there...other than that, good to go.
tolerance would be an issue. dosage escalation. and...doctor preference. I think librium, valium would probably be better...but it seems that ativan, xanax, and klonopin are the top benzodiazepines in the US. why? -shrug- szasz says psychiatry runs on dogma and trends.
blah. what do y'all think?
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