How to Use chlorpromazine in a Sentence

chlorpromazine

noun
  • Some patients on chlorpromazine developed mild tremors or tics.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Apr. 2026
  • The drug is chlorpromazine, which has also been used to treat psychotic disorders.
    — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 23 July 2022
  • Those doctors offered an acid reducer for his stomach and more chlorpromazine.
    — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 20 July 2017
  • The drug chlorpromazine, an anti-psychotic medication, was found in her system.
    — Mckenna Oxenden, baltimoresun.com, 15 Sep. 2021
  • The drug chlorpromazine, an antipsychotic medication, was found in her system.
    — Mckenna Oxenden, baltimoresun.com, 21 Oct. 2021
  • For persistent hiccups, doctors sometimes turn to prescriptions like gabapentin, baclofen and chlorpromazine.
    — Marisa Sloan, Discover Magazine, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Researchers eventually discovered that drugs like chlorpromazine might work by dampening the transmission of dopamine.
    — WIRED, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Research suggests that chlorpromazine is the most likely to cause seizures among typical antipsychotics while clozapine is most likely among atypicals.
    — Kimberly Truong, SELF, 7 Dec. 2018
  • Anti-nausea drugs like chlorpromazine, metoclopramide, or prochlorperazine can help treat nausea and vomiting symptoms.
    — Sara Gaynes Levy, SELF, 17 Nov. 2021
  • In the early 1950s, psychiatrists began treating schizophrenia with a new drug called chlorpromazine.
    — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2020
  • And last year, scientists working with mouse brain cells found that the anti-malaria drug quinacrine and the anti-psychotic drug chlorpromazine interfered with the ability of prions to cause normal brain protein to misfold.
    — Mark Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 July 2017
  • That only began to change in the 1950s with the development of the first antipsychotic drugs, foremost of which was chlorpromazine, also known as Thorazine.
    — Christian Millman, Discover Magazine, 23 Oct. 2019
  • One of those drugs, the antipsychotic chlorpromazine, had been shown in laboratory experiments to prevent the coronavirus from multiplying.
    — New York Times, 30 Jan. 2021
  • The antipsychotic drug chlorpromazine, derived from a clothing dye called methylene blue, was first tested on agitated and delusional patients in 1952.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Or the life-saving psychiatric medication chlorpromazine, now known as Thorazine, created in 1951.
    — Robert Pearl, Forbes, 13 June 2022
  • First-generation antipsychotics include chlorpromazine, haloperidol, perphenazine, and fluphenazine, the NIMH says.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 30 Nov. 2018
  • By 1960, doctors had the first drug that could effectively blunt psychosis — chlorpromazine, brand name Thorazine — giving tens of thousands of residents a chance to live independently.
    — Benedict Carey, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2018
  • Drugs that may cause a problem include barbiturates, benzodiazepines, chlorpromazine, reserpine, and tricyclic antidepressants.
    — Katie Wiseman, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Jan. 2024
  • Looking back, the purely unexpected discovery of lithium, chlorpromazine (the first antipsychotic drug) and several antidepressants around the 1950s promised rapid therapeutic progress.
    — Dr. Claes Wahlestedt, miamiherald, 6 June 2017
  • It was also spurred by the introduction of the antipsychotic drug chlorpromazine in the 1950s; the 1963 Community Mental Health Act to fund a system of local mental health care centers; changes in Medicaid; and landmark court decisions and federal civil rights laws.
    — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2025

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