Because of the various side effects associated with the first (or typical) antipsychotic medications:
A) the number of people hospitalized for schizophrenia and other serious mental disorders steadily increased during the 1960s and 1970s.
B) patients were required to undergo daily blood tests to monitor liver function and prevent liver failure.
C) patients who had been discharged from mental hospitals often quit taking the medication and had to be rehospitalized.
D) schizophrenic patients no longer received neuroleptic medications during the 1960s and 1970s.
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