A recent study of the long-term effectiveness of antipsychotic drugs found that
A) atypicals are much more effective than the conventional drugs.
B) these drugs are very effective for over 90 percent of schizophrenic patients.
C) there is tolerance to the beneficial effects and doses must be increased after six weeks.
D) three-fourths of the patients stopped taking their medication within 18 months.
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