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ANTIPSYCHOTIC DRUGS
Antipsychotic drugs are a class of medicines used to treat psychosis and other mental and emotional conditions.

ANTIPSYCHOTIC MEDICATIONS
The word psychosis is used to describe conditions that affect the mind, causing a loss of contact with reality. Psychosis is most likely to occur in young adults and is quite common. Around three out of every 100 young people will experience a psychotic episode, making psychosis more common than diabetes in young people. Psychosis can happen to anyone. Like any other illness, it can be treated. Most make a full recovery.

ANTIPSYCHOTIC DRUGS, ATYPICAL
The atypical antipsychotic agents, sometimes called the "novel" antipsychotic agents are a group of drugs which are different chemically from the older drugs used to treat psychosis. The "conventional" antipsychotic drugs are classified by their chemical structures as the phenothiazines, thioxanthines (which are chemically very similar to the phenothiazines), butyrophenones, diphenylbutylpiperadines and the indolones. All of the atypical antipsychotic agents are chemically classified as dibenzepines. They are considered atypical or novel because they have different side effects from the conventional antipsychotic agents. The atypical drugs are far less likely to cause extra-pyrammidal side-effects(EPS), drug induced involuntary movements, than are the older drugs. The atypical antipsychotic drugs may also be effective in some cases that are resistant to older drugs.

ANTISEPTICS
An antiseptic is a substance which inhibits the growth and development of microorganisms. For practical purposes, antiseptics are routinely thought of as topical agents, for application to skin, mucous membranes, and inanimate objects, although a formal definition includes agents which are used internally, such as the urinary tract antiseptics.

ANTISPASMODIC DRUGS
Antispasmodic drugs relieve cramps or spasms of the stomach, intestines, and bladder.

ANTITUBERCULOSIS DRUGS
Antituberculosis drugs are medicines used to treat tuberculosis, an infectious disease that can affect the lungs and other organs.

ANTIULCER DRUGS
Antiulcer drugs are a class of drugs, exclusive of the antibacterial agents, used to treat ulcers in the stomach and the upper part of the small intestine.

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