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Although chlorpromazine was the first synthetic neuroleptic drug discovered and represented a major innovation in the therapy of psychoses, its use was eroded by later generations of more potent phenothiazine drugs and, in particular, by the nonphenothiazine, haloperidol. In the two decades between 1958 and 1978, haloperidol became one of the most frequently prescribed neuroleptics in the world (Ayd, 1978) and the World Health Organization listed it, along with chlorpromazine and fluphenazine, as an essential psychotherapeutic drug (WHO, 1979).
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Maxwell, R.A., Eckhardt, S.B. (1990). Haloperidol. In: Drug Discovery. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0469-5_9
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