THE STORY OF DRUGS: A POPULAR EXPOSITION OF THEIR ORIGIN, PREPARATION, AND COMMERCIAL IMPORTANCE

By ANDREW DAVIS

CONTENTS 1 CURE OR CURSE: WHAT ARE ANTIPSYCHOTICS? 2 CHLORPROMAZINE: THE FIRST WONDER DRUG 3 MAGIC BULLETS: THE DEVELOPMENT OF IDEAS ON DRUG ACTION 4 BUILDING A HOUSE OF CARDS: THE DOPAMINE THEORY OF SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DRUG ACTION 5 THE PHOENIX RISES: FROM TARDIVE DYSKINESIA TO THE INTRODUCTION OF THE ‘ATYPICALS’ 6 LOOKING WHERE THE LIGHT IS: RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIALS OF ANTIPSYCHOTICS 7 THE PATIENT’S DILEMMA: OTHER EVIDENCE ON THE EFFECTS OF ANTIPSYCHOTICS 8 CHEMICAL COSH: ANTIPSYCHOTICS AND CHEMICAL RESTRAINT 9 OLD AND NEW DRUG-INDUCED PROBLEMS 10 THE FIRST TENTACLES: THE ‘EARLY INTERVENTION IN PSYCHOSIS’ MOVEMENT 11 THE ANTIPSYCHOTIC EPIDEMIC: PRESCRIBING IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY 12 ALL IS NOT AS IT SEEMS NOTES