Clozapine Treatment and Offending: A Within-Subject Study of Patients With Psychotic Disorders in Sweden

Abstract Clozapine treatment may have beneficial effects on behavioral outcomes in psychotic disorders, including violent offending. Although clozapine and other antipsychotics have been linked to lower levels of violent behavior, these have been primarily in small selected samples, and population-b...

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Published in:	Schizophrenia bulletin Vol. 46; no. 2; pp. 303 - 310
Main Authors:	Bhavsar, Vishal, Kosidou, Kyriaki, Widman, Linnea, Orsini, Nicola, Hodsoll, John, Dalman, Christina, MacCabe, James H
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	US Oxford University Press 01.03.2020
Subjects:	Adolescent Adult Antipsychotic Agents - pharmacology Clozapine - pharmacology Criminals - statistics & numerical data Drug Prescriptions - statistics & numerical data Female Hospitalization - statistics & numerical data Humans Male Middle Aged Nonviolence Olanzapine - pharmacology Psychosis Psychotic Disorders - drug therapy Registries - statistics & numerical data Regular Sweden Violence - statistics & numerical data Young Adult Sweden antipsychotic effectiveness olanzapine clozapine mirror image study within-subject design violence
ISSN:	0586-7614, 1745-1701, 1745-1701
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