Edited sentence: Great care needs to be exercised when evaluating the use of drugs such as chlorpromazine developed in an era of fashionable substance use and medicine.It is increasingly clear that there was substantive abuse of chlorpromazine often seen as a panacea for a whole range of anti-social behaviours whose interplay with economic and political conditions is often more important than generic behavioural defects.Just as 50-100 years ago , mad houses were often substitute prisons, chlorpromazine and other drugs touted by their makers as the miracle in a pill have been used to the same effect.Modern clinical practice is followed up by a vastly superior patient monitoring system.Todays computers with their ability to collate vast amounts of information and a much more open medical practice with a wider array of drugs available mean that there is that ever greater chance of preventing abuse