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Clozapine |
Clozaril |
Clozapine (trade names Clozaril®; Leponex®), approved by the FDA in 1989, was the first of the atypical antipsychotics. Clozapine is the only FDA approved medication indicated for treatment-resistant schizophrenia and for reducing the risk of suicidal behaviour in patients with schizophrenia.
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... CLOZAPINE (Clozaril®) helps to treat emotional and mental problems like schizophrenia. Clozapine can help keep you in touch with reality and reduce your symptoms. It is not a cure. Clozapine is sometimes also used for the treatment of other severe emotional or mental problems. Clozapine is used to help people that have not responded to other medications. It is available only through a monitoring and dispensing system (special doctors, pharmacists, and laboratories). For the first several months of treatment, you will be required to have weekly or every-other-week blood testing before your doctor or pharmacist will be allowed to dispense the next supply of tablets. Generic clozapine tablets are available. ...
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Clozapine Systematic (IUPAC) name 8-chloro-11-(4-methyl-1-piperaz ...
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