Antipsychotics Linked to Less Violent Crime

Elizabeth Prewitt PACEsConnection writer 5/9/1412:00 PM

Patients who were prescribed antipsychotic drugs were at a 45% lower risk of committing violent crimes than when there was no record of a current prescription, a Swedish registry study indicated.

Among more than 80,000 patients in Sweden whose medical records indicated prescriptions for antipsychotic drugs or mood stabilizers from 2006 to 2009, the hazard ratio for conviction of violent crime was 0.55 (95

% CI 0.47-0.64) when the patients had current antipsychotic prescriptions compared with periods when they didn't, according to Seena Fazel, MD, MBChB, of the University of Oxford in England, and colleagues.

http://www.medpagetoday.com/Psychiatry/Schizophrenia/45650

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Patients who were prescribed antipsychotic drugs were at a 45% lower risk of committing violent crimes than when there was no record of a current prescription, a Swedish registry study indicated.

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