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Antipsychotic drugs
The corner stone when treating schizphrenia is with no doubt medication with so called antipsychotic drugs, or neuroleptics. This group of medications consists of a number of chemical substances, and is divided into several subgroups. These have all shown to be very efficient in reducing the psychotic symptoms in schizophrenia, but vary in terms of the side effects they may cause. For a more extensive description of treatment with antipsychotic drugs, click on the link below.
Antipsychotics - Drugs against Schizophrenia (concentrated text)
Antipsychotics (easy to read text for the general public and families)

To get more information about antipsychotics, click on the link below.
Information about Antipsychotics

Please note! An antipsychotics list is only available for antipsychotics listed in FASS (the official book for pharmaceutical specialties in Sweden), and in Swedish only!
Swedish list of Antipsychotics

Other treatments
Apart from pure medication there are also a number of treatments, which are usually used as a compelment to the drug treatment. To these belong various types of therapies and forms of social support, plus education and information for the patients and their families and close surrounding.

In Sweden there is for instance Riksförbundet av Intresseföreningar för Schizofreni (Riks-IFS) and in the US National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI), who both function to make sure the support to persons who directly or indirectly are affected by schizophrenia is maintained according to the regulations.
Read more about support organisations for the ill and their families

The section Information for the general public and family offers easy-to-read texts about treatment of schizophrenia.
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