Antipsychotics Reduce Sex Drive

American Voices

Antipsychotics Reduce Sex Drive

April 23, 2007 | ISSUE 43•17

A study of people taking antipsychotic drugs for treatment of schizophrenia shows reveals that diminished sexual function is an unwanted side effect. What do you think?

Where can I get some of those drugs? I'm sick of sex.

Lyndon Fitzpatrick
Scuba Instructor
My God. That means virtually everyone on Craigslist is off their meds.

Molly Prescott
Unemployed
That's it, no more medication for me. I sure hope I get laid a lot in the lucid moments from my nightmarish paranoid delusions and horrifying hallucinations.

Ty Jackson
Systems Analyst

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