Antipsychotic Drugs: Medicolegal Implications for Pharmacists

Abstract

The purposes of this article are to briefly review the adverse reactions induced by antipsychotics that have the greatest modicolegal implications and to set them in the context of pharmacist liability for patient injury. Although little or no case law has evolved specifying antipsychotic drugs and the pharmacist's possible duty to warn, such an obligation may be increasingly realized as standards of practice in psychiatric pharmacy are elevated.