Talk:Benperidol

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[edit] Uses of benperidol.

"It is an antipsychotic, which can be used for the treatment of schizophrenia[2], but it is primarily used to control deviant, antisocial hypersexual behaviour[3], and is sometimes prescribed to sex offenders as a condition of their parole, as an alternative to anti-androgen drugs such as cyproterone.[4]"

In Germany, benperidol (Glianimon and generics) is used mainly as a highly potent antipsychotic in severely psychotic and manic (e.g. schizophrenia, almost exclusively in acute pharmacological intervention) patients, though not nearly as often as haloperidol and 2nd generation antipsychotics. No specific use in antisocial hypersexual behaviour (or, not more than other neuroleptics/antipsychotics) occurs; this drug is quite infamous among psychiatric patients and personal to be the ultimative, "superpotent" neuroleptic with massive EPMS side-effects.
Is it used in the UK really as the "antipsychotic of choice" for sexual deviants, as could be assumed from the publications quoted?
Also, the "dichotomisation of choice" of pharmacotherapy between an antiandrogen or an antipsychotic seems not really close to practical therapy routine; cyproterone treatment is quite often co-administred with psychopharmaceutical medication and non-pharmaceutical treatment options... But these are just my impressions and thoughts...--Spiperon 12:43, 1 May 2007 (UTC)