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Antipsychotics Lead to Worse Outcomes in First-Episode Psychosis

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This included 3714 adolescents ages 13-20 who received a diagnosis of a psychotic disorder between 2003 and 2013 and had never before taken antipsychotic drugs. Bergström and Gauffin used the Finnish National Health Registry to identify all those who met the study criteria.

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From the Dopamine Theory to the Outcomes Paradox

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This was widely taken by psychiatrists as supporting biochemical intervention with the use of ‘antipsychotics’ at the earliest opportunity. Data tends to show that longer-term functional ( ie social and occupational ) outcome measures appear no better for those who received EIP, than for those who did not.