Posts Tagged ‘Haloperidol’
The use of haloperidol as a long-acting neuroleptic in game capture operations
The use of haloperidol as a long-acting neuroleptic in game capture operations.
By Hofmeyr J. M.
Source: J S Afr Vet Assoc. 1981 Dec;52(4):273-82.
Journal of the South African Veterinary Association, December 1981
Abstract
Haloperidol (R1625, Serenace) a potent, long-acting butyrophenone neuroleptic, was shown to be very effective in game capture operations for the neuroleptization of several species of African wild herbivores, especially the medium and small antelopes. With a rapid onset
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Haloperidol is Neurotoxic
Haloperidol is Neurotoxic
By Sandra Steingard, MD
Featured Blogs July 21, 2013
This is the headline of an editorial in the most recent edition of Current Psychiatry. It is written by Henry A. Nasrallah, MD, a prominent psychiatric researcher. This is one of the free journals sent to, I assume, every psychiatrist in the US. Although it says it has a subscription cost of $113/year, I know I have never been asked to pay. I assume it is supported by its advertisements, 18 pages of which in
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“Quérulence” Timeline
This timeline needs the Fabrikant case in which Rolland declared him.
1984
Yves-Marie Morissette first broaches alleged abuse of process as a symptom of mental illness
No doubt in honor of George Orwell, Rhodes Scholar Yves-Marie Morisette pens his first article raising the subject of “querulousness” or "quarrelsomeness" for the Quebec Bar Review. The French publication may be cited as "L’initiative judiciaire vouée a l’échec et la responsabilité de l’avocat ou de
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Le Juge Yves-Marie Morissette de la Cour d’appel: La référence en quérulence au Québec par “Le Commission Papillon”
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Judge Yves-Marie Morissette of the Court of Appeal: the Reference on Querulence in Quebec By "The Papillon Task Force"
La Commission Papillon - La carte cachée d'une faction corrompue du système de justice Québécois
The Papillon Task Force -- The Hidden Card of a Corrupt Faction in the Quebec Justice System
Introduction
Qu’est-ce que c'est, la Commission Papillon?
What is the PapillonTask Force?
Dans ce qui s’apprête à
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Soviet psychiatric drug for dissidents given to U.S. patients
It’s called Haldol. The generic name is haloperidol. It’s classified as an “anti-psychotic”. You’ll read that Haldol is being phased out in the US, but PM: The Essential Resource for Pharma Marketers reports that Haldol accounts for 5% of anti-psychotic prescriptions handed out between 2010 and 2011. That’s 2.7 million prescriptions for Haldol. In one year, in the US. The major and frequent adverse effects of the drug? Akathisia (the irresistible and painful impulse to keep moving, the inability to sit still), dystonia (severe muscle contractions that twist the body grotesquely), and Parkinsonism. In short, torture. All three of these effects can indicate motor brain damage.
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