Talk:Haloperidol
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Now, the article on Haloperidol has been completely revised and extended. Please check carefully for errors and communicate them. Thanks for your help!
[edit] See also
Ombudsman (talk • contribs) inserted a few articles for "see also": Biological psychiatry, New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, Psychiatric survivors movement.
I removed these links because they do not relate directly to haloperidol. Ombudsman reinserted them with the edit comment: "restore see also section; haldol has been central to the arsenal of 'treatments' used against persons labeled w/ pseudoscientific 'diagnoses'; article is an example of whitewashing"[1].
Ombudsman has a history of pushing his POV by inserting "see also"s to articles with content have he favours. The edit summary reveals the antipsychiatry POV. I encourage Ombudsman to improve this page with NPOV content, such as substantiation of the assertion that this article is "whitewashing" and a source for the assertion that psychiatric diagnoses are "pseudoscientific". JFW | T@lk 14:33, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] contradiction
It seems like 'devoid of any psychological dependence' and 'rebound into mania' are contradictions, unless there is a clear defined, referenced differentiation between their 'physical' and 'psychological' sources. Clarification? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 168.105.118.109 (talk • contribs) .
- I think, when looked at informally, the intent of the two terms is fairly obvious: Haloperidol is not 'addictive' in the colloquial sense (not in the way that benzodiazepines are), but may cause clinical deterioration upon abrupt cessation. Perhaps the language could be cleaned up a bit, though. --Bk0 (Talk) 17:48, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
Rebound is being used incorrectly. The term here is more appropriately "relapse." Rebound is a rapid onset of symptoms due to the abrupt discontinuation of a drug. Relapse is the re-emergence of underlying disease due to lapse of treatment. Patients may relapse into psychosis or acute mania if anti-psychotic medication is withdrawn.
There seems to be another contradiction within the artical, it supposedly states that this drug will surpress hullciations caused by PCP, however i was under the impression that PCP was a dissasociative drug and therefore Haloperidol would be uneffective, however I am not an expert and therefore did not feel i had the right to change anything.
[edit] Breast feeding
Very good article. Perhaps it would be useful to provide some additional information on the use of haloperidol in lactating mothers. The authoritative website http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/search/f?./temp/~ox1B0U:1 comments: "...Limited information indicates that maternal doses of haloperidol up to 10 mg/day produce low levels in milk and do not affect the breastfed infant. Very limited long-term follow-up data indicate no adverse developmental effects when haloperidol is used alone. However, combinations of antipsychotic agents can negatively affect development. Monitor the infant for developmental milestones, especially if other antipsychotics are used concurrently."
Since the dose used seems to clearly influence the degree of potential effects, this issue warrants discussion, in my opinion.
Thank you,
146.155.244.174 15:40, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
