Definition of "antipsychotics" []

• Plural form of antipsychotic. (noun)

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• "Meanwhile, Zyprexa remains one of several so-called antipsychotics drugs that are too often given without rational, ethical or scientific justification to subdue children throughout the United States."
• "NEUROLEPTIC drugs - now known as antipsychotics - were first developed in the 1950s for use in psychotic disorders, who previously might have received surgical lobotomies."
• ""The antipsychotics are a godsend," said Dr. Alan Manevitz, a psychiatrist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York who was not involved in the study."