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Article: Primer for prescription medications: the medicines for side effects--part two.(RX Primer)
- Article from:
- Annals of the American Psychotherapy Association
- Article date:
- December 22, 2004
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In my previous column, I began the discussion of medications that can be used to treat side effects. Most of that article dealt with the so-called extrapyramidal side effects, or "EPS," which are caused by traditional antipsychotic medications, and more rarely by some of the newer atypical antipsychotics. Fortunately, EPS is not ...