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2 Summarized comparisons of restrictive or potentially fatal effects of psychotropic drugs prescribed for autistic adults with learning disabilities and challenging behavior (ca 2001). From left to right, starting with the antipsychotics: phenothiazines (e.g. Chlorpromazine), thioxanthines (e.g. Fluenthixol), Haloperidol, pimozide, risperidone, olanzapine; and then various non-neuroleptic experimental drugs for autism-related perceived problems, viz paroxetine, lithium, carbamazepine, buspirone, naltrexone, and the beta-blocker propranolol
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In 1998, Dinah Murray founded APANA (Autistic People Against Neuroleptic Abuse), an autistic-led campaign in the UK to stop the overuse of drugs being given to people with intellectual disabilities. The campaign subverted the medicalization of “challenging behavior” and focused on three cases studies of institutionalized autistic adults who were be...
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... website, run by my friend Sue Craig, had much factual information, including all the illustrations to this chapter, and useful links and ancient advertisements for old drugs and new. Canadian artist Ralph Smith designed an elegant logo for us ( Fig. 4.2). This served us well and got the message out that Autistic People Against Neuroleptic Abuse was an active force. Autistic activists in the USA such as A. M. Baggs (now g. Fluenthixol), Haloperidol, pimozide, risperidone, olanzapine; and then various non-neuroleptic experimental drugs for autism-related perceived problems, viz ...