How to Use antipsychotic in a Sentence

antipsychotic

noun
  • The first antipsychotic was designed as a sedative, and so on.
    — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 26 Apr. 2017
  • Maybe your friend started taking an antipsychotic that changed their life.
    — Kasandra Brabaw, SELF, 7 Dec. 2018
  • In the needle was a cocktail of sedatives and antipsychotics.
    — Jaime Lowe, Esquire, 26 Sep. 2017
  • While certain antipsychotics can cause this risk, other drugs can also have this same effect.
    — Karen Berger, Pharmd, Verywell Health, 20 Feb. 2025
  • These are powerful drugs — antipsychotics, sedatives, sleep aids — each carrying their own risks.
    — Dr. Sabooh Mubbashar, Hartford Courant, 27 Apr. 2025
  • The first line of treatment might involve using an atypical antipsychotic to stop mania.
    — Jessica Migala, Health.com, 28 June 2021
  • Thorazine was followed by Haldol, a more potent antipsychotic whose side effects were no kinder.
    — New York Times, 17 May 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • Drug treatments weren’t available until the 1960s, when an antipsychotic called Haldol came on the scene.
    — Andy Marso, kansascity, 20 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • Collin is finally sharing the truth about being held down, the basement cell where he was hidden for years, and the cocktail of powerful antipsychotics forced on an 11-year-old boy.
    — Yamillah Hurtado, PEOPLE, 1 July 2026
  • For meth overdoses, doctors must use a combination of sedatives and antipsychotics to calm the individual.
    — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 25 Oct. 2019
  • The general consensus is that an antipsychotic and a mood stabilizer provide a greater benefit.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 30 Nov. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • The list of medications that can lead to falls is longer than people might suspect, such as loop diuretics, antidepressants, benzodiazepines, antipsychotics, and opioids.
    — Adaira Landry, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
  • Researchers have tried without success to develop new class of schizophrenia medications since the last wave of dopamine-blocking antipsychotics emerged in the 1990s.
    — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 27 Sep. 2024
  • With the older generation of antipsychotics, many patients experienced movement disorders as a side effect.
    — Marisa Cohen, Good Housekeeping, 23 Apr. 2020
  • After that, the psychiatrist prescribed Mendez a variety of mood stabilizers and antipsychotics to treat the diagnoses.
    — Sofia Viera, refinery29.com, 9 July 2024
  • Atypical antipsychotics – medication used to treat a range of psychiatric disorders – are often used to treat psychosis in Alzheimer’s patients even though they are not approved for that purpose.
    — Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 15 Jan. 2025
  • The report noted the use of stimulant drugs, antidepressants, antipsychotics and asthma medications have all increased among children within the past 30 or so years.
    — Joseph Choi, The Hill, 22 May 2025
  • 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
  • The most effective drugs for patients are antipsychotics, Lieberman said, since those medications manage the elements of psychosis that impair thoughts and perceptions.
    — Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Matthew Purdy suffers from schizophrenia and an antipsychotic is among the medications he has been prescribed at the Tarrant County Jail.
    — Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 May 2025
  • Jenkins said that Miller worked mostly as a day laborer and took medication for depression and an antipsychotic to manage his aggravation, according to court records.
    — Nichole Manna, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 May 2024
  • The complex condition is currently treated with antipsychotics that carry safety risks like metabolic disorders, cause weight gain and often cause people to stop taking their medications.
    — Maya Goldman, Axios, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Some studies show antipsychotics could limit violent outcomes in patients, but more research is needed to determine whether meds can reduce violence to the same level as the general population.
    — David Oliver, USA Today, 23 Dec. 2025
  • 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

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