RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Another depot neuroleptic: pipothiazine
JF Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin
JO Drug Ther Bull
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
SP 28
OP 28
DO 10.1136/dtb.22.7.28
VO 22
IS 7
YR 1984
UL http://dtb.bmj.com/content/22/7/28.abstract
AB Pipothiazine palmitate (Piportil Depot) is a piperidine phenothiazine derivative, the seventh long-acting injectable neuroleptic to be marketed in the UK.1 Although new here, it has been used for more than a decade in other countries.2,3 After injection pipothiazine acts for about 4 weeks (range 2–8 weeks), longer than other injectable neuroleptics.