Psychoactive drugs usually relieve suffering quickly and form a relatively inexpensive treatment when compared to psychological therapies, so this is useful as more people can be treated due to the costs being low. Maintenance Drug treatment can prevent schizophrenic patients relapsing, so this shows it is effective in relieving the suffering and making sure it does not return. It also makes logical sense to treat the result of biological factors physically i.e. with drugs. However, the side effects discussed can be very disabling to the patients, and original antipsychotics were only effective in treating positive (not negative) symptoms, so some types of schizophrenia could not be treated with these typical drugs.
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