Antipsychotics, mood stabilisers, and risk of violent crime.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Antipsychotics and mood stabilisers are prescribed widely to patients with psychiatric disorders worldwide. Despite clear evidence for their efficacy in relapse prevention and symptom relief, their effect on some adverse outcomes, including the perpetration of violent crime, is unclear. We aimed to establish the effect of antipsychotics and mood stabilisers on the rate of violent crime committed by patients with psychiatric disorders in Sweden.

Methods

We used linked Swedish national registers to study 82,647 patients who were prescribed antipsychotics or mood stabilisers, their psychiatric diagnoses, and subsequent criminal convictions in 2006-09. We did within-individual analyses to compare the rate of violent criminality during the time that patients were presc

SUBMITTER: Fazel S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4165625 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature