He spent time on the Whittington Hospital psychiatric ward and was prescribed the antipsychotic drug
largactil.
After the anesthesia induction, 100 mg/kg ketamine (Ketalar, Parke-Davis, Eczacibasi-Istanbul), 1 mg/kg intraperitoneally (ip), chlorpromazine (
Largactil, Eczacibasi-Istanbul) 1 mg/kg ip were applied as maintenance anesthesia.
Emma claims she was drugged with a sedative, believed to be the antipsychotic medication
Largactil.
It is not unusual for a drug to have a use different to the one for which it was originally devised; chlorpromazine, or
Largactil, for example, was originally a premedicating agent for anaesthesia.
Debunking Antipsychiatry: Laing, Law and
Largactil. Existential Analysis, 19(2): 316-344.
Drugs such as Thorazine (
Largactil) promised effective management of mental illness, but were in reality often just a straitjacket in pill form.
A este sigue la clorpromazina (
Largactil) en 16 casos a partir de 1957; desarrollada en los anos cincuenta en Estados Unidos, constituye el inicio de la farmacologia psiquiatrica para el tratamiento de la psicosis y la esquizofrenia.