Drug Interactions:
Antipsychotics

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Drugs in this class are primarily used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of psychosis. Many of these medications fall in the class known as phenothiazines. This category includes:

• chlorpromazine hydrochloride (Thorazine)
• fluphenazine (Permitil, Prolixin)
• mesoridazine besylate (Serentil)
• perphenazine (Trilafon)
• prochlorperazine (Compazine)
• promazine hydrochloride (Sparine)
• promethazine hydrochloride (Anergan [injectable], Phenergan)
• thioridazine hydrochloride (Mellaril)
• trifluoperazine hydrochloride (Stelazine)
• triflupromazine hydrochloride (Vesprin [injectable])
• and others

Two newer medications, olanzapine (Zyprexa) and clozapine (Clozaril), are called atypical antipsychotics.

See Phenothiazines or Atypical Antipsychotics for more information.

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Last reviewed March 2002 by Medical Review Board

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