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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. The researchers note that these services are provided to the entire population as needed and recorded in the registry based on their universal healthcare system.

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From the Dopamine Theory to the Outcomes Paradox

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Paradoxical’, because in contrast with healthcare outcomes generally being better in ‘developed’ (high income) countries, outcomes for those who had suffered psychosis were apparently better in the ‘developing’, lower and middle income countries. This is not the same as accounting for their causal origin ( aetiology ).