Do the New Antipsychotics
Make A Difference?

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Conclusions

The introduction of new antipsychotic drugs has alleviated many of the problems of side effects for people with psychoses and resulted in obvious improvements in their quality of life. Hopefully, use of the new antipsychotics in combination with optimal education and community support, will improve compliance with treatment and reduce the chance of relapse. It is necessary for those involved in planning the delivery of services to devise ways to reduce the duration of untreated psychosis. Evaluations carried out over the next few years will determine whether these interventions are associated with improvements in clinical outcomes in the medium term and the long term.

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The optimal goal of treatment must be the immediate, complete, and sustained remission of all symptoms of psychosis in all individuals being treated. Although we are still a long way from achieving this goal, the new antipsychotic drugs have narrowed the gap between current and optimal practice.

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