Antipsychotic drugs have now become the top-selling class of prescription drugs in the United States, with $14.6 billion in annual revenue. Quite a trick for a group of drugs approved for one percent or less of the population.
But now you can go into any nursing home or elementary school and find non-psychotic patients taking these anti-psychotic drugs every day. Therein lies a marketing story for pharmaceutical manufacturers, who have danced around FDA regulations intended to keep the drugs marketed for only proven and safe uses.
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