Long-term 'treatment' of schizophrenics with typical neuroleptics: a crime against humanity?
It is well documented that neuroleptics acting on dopamine receptors induce suppression of reward-directed behaviors in animals (1). Since the need for reward and pleasure is evidently also a powerful determinant of human behavior, it is suggested that compulsory treatment of schizophrenics in remission with anhedonic neuroleptics should be regarded as a crime against humanity, comparable with the scientifically approved use of frontal lobotomy in the management of poor psychotics before the advent of neuroleptics.
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Kellokoski Hospital, Finland.
D000818:Animals; D014150:Antipsychotic Agents / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006801:Humans; D008960:Models, Psychological; D012201:Reward; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000188:drug therapy*; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology
D014150:Antipsychotic Agents