How to Use antipsychotic in a Sentence

antipsychotic

noun

• Forty different antipsychotics sprang up within 20 years.
  — WIRED, 7 Aug. 2023
• For instance, medications, such as antidepressants, antihistamines, and antipsychotics, can affect pupil size and how much light enters the eye.
  — Matthew Solan, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2024
• In the needle was a cocktail of sedatives and antipsychotics.
  — Jaime Lowe, Esquire, 26 Sep. 2017
• The first antipsychotic was designed as a sedative, and so on.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 26 Apr. 2017
• Shenandoah staff gave him antidepressants and antipsychotics to help him calm down and sleep.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 16 Feb. 2020
• Drug treatments weren’t available until the 1960s, when an antipsychotic called Haldol came on the scene.
  — Andy Marso, kansascity, 20 Oct. 2017
• Twice a day, someone came by and watched him swallow four milligrams of risperidone, an antipsychotic.
  — Zander Sherman, Esquire, 20 Apr. 2016
• Maybe your friend started taking an antipsychotic that changed their life.
  — Kasandra Brabaw, SELF, 7 Dec. 2018
• That first day at the nursing home, staff gave Ms. Hill Haldol, a powerful antipsychotic, her medical records show.
  — New York Times, 13 Mar. 2021
• Thorazine was followed by Haldol, a more potent antipsychotic whose side effects were no kinder.
  — New York Times, 17 May 2022
• At the time of his murder arrest, Bowser was on more than a dozen medications, including sedatives and antipsychotics.
  — Jessica Pishko, Slate Magazine, 28 Feb. 2017
• The first line of treatment might involve using an atypical antipsychotic to stop mania.
  — Jessica Migala, Health.com, 28 June 2021
• This came as the government attempted to crack down on the use of antipsychotics in restraining elderly dementia patients.
  — Melanie Hicken, CNN, 26 Sep. 2019
• In 2004, Robbie punched an uncle at a family cabin, and was escorted to the hospital by sheriff’s deputies, who later tackled him to the ground so that a nurse could inject him with an antipsychotic.
  — Abe Streep, The New Yorker, 21 May 2021
• The callous indifference of both the VA and Congress to the overmedication crisis has only recently started to change, and that’s just for opiates, not antipsychotics.
  — Art Levine, Newsweek, 12 Oct. 2017
• Myth #2: Everyone who takes antipsychotics has schizophrenia or psychosis.
  — Kasandra Brabaw, SELF, 7 Dec. 2018
• Army doctors had been giving him a cocktail of medicines that included quetiapine, a top-selling antipsychotic from AstraZeneca sold under the name Seroquel.
  — Charles Piller, Science | AAAS, 5 July 2018
• In 2002, the two big companies together brought that pill to market under the brand name Abilify, originally branding it as a novel antipsychotic to treat schizophrenia.
  — Popular Science, 10 Mar. 2020
• For meth overdoses, doctors must use a combination of sedatives and antipsychotics to calm the individual.
  — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 25 Oct. 2019
• Shankar’s group offered to help other agencies with similar tweaks, to facilitate microloans to farmers, or to reduce the overprescribing of antipsychotics and other drugs by Medicare providers.
  — Sarah Stillman, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2017
• Laib ran out of medication treating her depression — Zoloft, an antidepressant, and Seroquel, an antipsychotic — a few days before her death.
  — Jason Laughlin, Philly.com, 8 May 2018
• Research shows that antipsychotics may make conception more difficult.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 17 Jan. 2019
• But researchers are still looking into how other antipsychotics might impact pregnancy.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 17 Jan. 2019
• The general consensus is that an antipsychotic and a mood stabilizer provide a greater benefit.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 30 Nov. 2018
• The first of hundreds of lawsuits filed by consumers who claim the Abilify antipsychotic caused compulsive behavior has been scheduled for trial in June after a federal judge tossed a bid by drug makers to dismiss the litigation.
  — Ed Silverman, STAT, 19 Mar. 2018
• Lobotomies for ulcerative colitis, and for mental illness, were halted in the late 1950s because of outrage at the barbarity of the procedure and the emergence of new drugs — antipsychotics for mental illness and corticosteroids for colitis.
  — Jim Carrier, STAT, 12 June 2018
• Current antipsychotics — which mostly block dopamine receptors — have become blockbuster schizophrenia medicines despite causing troubling side effects like weight gain and somnolence.
  — Adam Feuerstein, STAT, 18 Nov. 2019
• Seroquel was then known to be associated with sudden cardiac death when used with certain drugs, and several antipsychotics similar to Seroquel also had a record of cardiac fatalities.
  — Charles Piller, Science | AAAS, 5 July 2018
• Another class of medications prescribed for bipolar disorder is antipsychotics to treat mania (during which psychotic episodes can occur), according to the NIMH.
  — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 27 Sep. 2018
• So the medical workers came armed with Thorazine, a powerful antipsychotic that resolves a frightening drug experience much as a ballistic missile resolves a ground skirmish.
  — WIRED, 29 June 2023

Last Updated: 30 Sep 2024