Antipsychotics and crime.

Antipsychotic drugs, also known as neuroleptic drugs or neuroleptics, were first discovered in the late 1940’s by Henri Laborit, a French surgeon. Laborit found that when phenothiazines were used in conjunction with surgical anesthesia, the patients became less concerned about their surgery, and he thought that these drugs might be useful for reducing the emotionality of psychiatric patients. Since that time, the use of antipsychotics has become common in psychiatry. Initially, these drugs were called tranquilizers, but as that term seemed to imply sedation, its use was dropped.