A case is reported of hyperkinesis due to chlordiazepoxide, an effect paradoxical to that expected from this drug. As this drug is one of the commonest prescribed, and as a sample of psychiatrists were unaware of this side-effect, knowledge about it would appear to require wider dissemination.
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