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Tranquilizer
* Help when internal psychological struggles turn outward.
* also help some pets who have trouble traveling.
* are drugs that slow down the nervous system
  - one type of depressants
* can be addictive to the baby and the mother
  - useful in some situations
  - cause insomnia
  - lessen agitation and motion sickness in pets traveling by car
  - reduce fears and sleeplessness during stressful times
* cause dependence and tolerance.
* disrupt the psycho-motor, intellectual, and perceptual functions.
* generally intensify fatigue.
* have their uses.
* make horses unsteady.
* relax sympathetic nerv.
* tend to raise or lower respiration, occasionally with disastrous effect.

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Antianxiety drug
* are a multibillion-dollar business.
* is tranquilizer

Antipsychotic
* Most antipsychotics have long half-lives.
* are available either as tablets or as long-acting injections
  - drugs which balance people's moods or stop hallucinations
* can have bad side effects such as sedation, tremors and seizures.
* work by blocking the transmission of dopamine.
+ Illegal drugs, Types of psychoactive drugs and their effects, Anti-psychotics

Antipsychotic agent
* cause an increase in the metabolic turnover of catecholamines.
* is tranquilizer

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Antipsychotic drug
* Many antipsychotic drugs make patients nauseous.
* Most antipsychotic drugs produce strong side effects, such as uncontrollable limb movements.
* act primarily at receptors.
* are the most regulated group
  - standard treatment for delusional infestation
* can often significantly alleviate hallucinations and other abnormal behaviors
  - take between one and three months to take effect
* have a specific antimanic effect even if overt psychotic symptoms are absent.
* help to control almost all the positive symptoms of the disorder.

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Conventional antipsychotic
* block primarily dopamine receptors.
* seem to primarily affect only dopamine.

Anxiolytic
* allow the clinician to administer a smaller analgesic dose to achieve the same effect.
* are medicine.
* reduce pain-related anxiety, help relax muscles and can help a person cope with pain.

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Hydroxyzine
* appears to be an effective alternative treatment to benzodiazepine prescription.
* can be effective
  - decrease itching, but also can cause significant drowsiness
* inhibits neurogenic bladder mast cell activation.
* is an antihistamine that suppressed activity in subcortical regions of the brain
  - especially effective for the treatment of cholinergic urticaria
  - one of the most effective but often causes drowsiness
  - prescription only
* member of the piperazine class of antihistamines.

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Neuroleptic
* also are extremely helpful for treating mania.
* are a class of drugs used to treat psychiatric disorders
  - dopamine ant agonist
* are the drugs of choice for treating the symptoms of schizophrenia
  - most effective drugs in the treatment of chorea
* can feel like torture for many people
  - have adverse side effects related to many organs and systems in the body
* have a consistent modest effect in agitated patients
  - modest, but broad therapeutic effect on symptoms in all domains
  - low abuse potential
* help some people but in some they cause death.
* induce peptidases and diet of course reduces the peptide load.
* make the patient calm.
+ Antipsychotic: Drugs used in psychiatry
  * The name 'neuroleptic' was introduced in 1955, from the 1990s, the term 'antipsychotic' is used more frequently. Neuroleptics make the patient calm. Today, they are mostly used for the treatment of psychosis, as it occurs in schizophrenia and  bipolar disorder. They can also be used to treat depression and mood swings.