Psychotropic Drug | Mental Health Nursing

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Introduction
Psychotropic drug is capable of affecting the emotion, mind and behaviour of an
individual. Few psychotropic legal drug is lithium, which is used to treat bipolar disorder.
Cocaing is considered to be the illicit drug. The three main classes of psychotropic drugs are
anxiolytic such as benzodiazepines that can manage insomnia and anxiety, antidepressant as well
as antipsychotics (Donley et al., 2011). Few other psychotropic class includes stimulant and
anticonvulsants. As this drug mainly affects brain as well as mind, medicines that are closely
related to anti-dementia along with opioids are classed as psychotropic medicine. However, if
people take in high doses the effect can be adverse. Sedatives medication reduces brain activity
(Kretchy et al., 2018). They make a person feel relaxed. The medication treats anxiety and sleep
sicknesses. The main aim of this paper is to discuss about the controversy in the use of sedative
or psychotropic medication in controlling the behaviour of the people. The paper is structured to
discuss about the controversy and ways to manage symptoms for people experiencing psychotic
illness and various challenges faced by the nurses administering these patients.
Discussion
There is an ongoing controversy that psychotropic drugs have harmful effects and more
use of dementia as well as antidepressant drugs can be stopped before causing any harm.
Researchers have found that the side effects of the psychotropic drug overcome its benefits if
there is minute change in the dosage (Stroup et al., 2019). It has been researched by the
Australia’s health association team that psychotropic drugs are necessary and it was also
acknowledged that the overdose antipsychotics to alleviate violate patients suffering from
dementia. It has been noticed that more than half a million people above the age of 65 suffers
fatal death due to use to the psychotropic drugs.

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Psychotropic medications have a role on brain as well as central nervous system. They
alter the chemicals present in the brain known as neurotransmitters and send messages among
brain cells by a synapse or crossing (Goldberg, 2012). Every psychotropic medication can treat
specific recognised symptoms. Psychotropic medication manages psychological and behavioural
symptoms of dementia. It is not projected to be inclusive, and confines its possibility to the more
frequently arranged medicines inside an Australian background. Medicines prescribed to treat
mental illness, might lead to exaggeration of behaviours. In general, while it is factual
that medicine treating central nervous system activity might precipitate or exacerbate the illness,
the significant drugs are used to avoided to be used with anticholinergic activity (Matson &
Mahan, 2010).
Cholinergic medications be able to recover awareness. Anticholinergics, hence, causes
augmented confusion. Anticholinergic medications have a habit of to be of binary types; which
are prescribed as they have anticholinergic features, and those that are known to have
anticholinergic side effects (Serretti et al., 2013). Drugs such as benhexol (Artane), oxybutynin
(Ditropan), and benztropine (Cogentin) have anticholinergic side effects that include digoxin,
opioid analgesics, salbutamol, frusemide, corticosteroids and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory
drugs (NSAIDS) as well as tricylic antidepressants.
Even though these drugs have benefits but they are minimal to overcome the colossal
negative outcomes. Few people claim that the research that has been done Australian health team
is bias, as they think that the patients involved in the study was already under some other kind of
medication (Kagee, 2011). Hence, the outcome was adverse. If the patient under the
psychotropic medication stops the drug suddenly then they experience a sudden withdrawal
phase and slowly after trying some other medication the effects turns out to be beneficial.

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Researchers have also claimed that even sudden stop of the drug have resulted in suicidal
tendency.
Antidepressant such as venlafaxine and fluoxetine have a caused impulsive reduction of the
disease over time. There is also an underlying controversy showing that the schizophrenia drugs
for ADHD (attention deficit hyperactive disorder) are highly uncertain (Hill & Wee, 2012). The
drug can lead to brain damage. Research on other hand, have also showed that the harmful effect
of the psychotropic drug can be prevented by dropping antidepressant, dementia and ADHD
drugs. The use of drugs such as benzodiazepines and antipsychotics. This process would help to
receive long-lived and healthier population.
Results have also shown that long-term use of this drug is harmful and they must be used
under serious situations. The analysis of the working of Psychotropic drugs is tough to predict
hence, it is tough to analysis how it would react in every individual. These drugs are highly
exposed as chemical toxins that have a strong power to kill. The medical professionals have
claimed these drugs can save lives for an individual suffering with severe illness however it also
has some side effects if taken for a longer period of time (Matson & Hess, 2011). Records have
shown that the psychotropic drugs increase the chances of suicide. The long-term use has created
lifetime of mental as well as physical damage to the brain. Few side effects that are commonly
seen are hallucination, suicidal ideation, sudden death, stroke as well as psychosis (Mental
Health Australia, 2020).
Argument have been placed that elaborates that these drugs work and they have a good
beneficiary and effective result as any other medications. These drugs are also needed for the
patient with psychiatric conditions that are considered to the fifth leading cause of disability in
the world. It has also been noted that my mentally ill patient suffers from several other physical