Schizophrenia, neuroleptic medication and mortality

Schizophrenic patients given neuroleptic medication die at an alarming rate.

http://bjp.rcpsych.org/cgi/content/abstract/188/2/122

http://bjp.rcpsych.org/cgi/reprint/188/2/122

http://www.springerlink.com/content/v87mlpbdv096lf0v/

http://www.gims.tcu.edu.tw/981%A4%BD%BD%C3%B1M%B0Q/1103%B6%C0%A6%B6%A7%C2.pdf

That's too high a price for the patients, their families and society to pay.
Patients need and deserve proper medical workups.