Top drugs used in psychoses in England 2021

This statistic displays the leading ten dispensed drugs used in psychoses and related disorders in England in 2021, by number of prescription items. In that year, the most dispensed drug used in psychoses and related disorders was quetiapine at 4.2 million items.

Leading 10 dispensed drugs used in psychoses and related disorders in England in 2021, by number of items

Characteristic	Number of items
Quetiapine	4,200,612
Olanzapine	2,599,771
Risperidone	1,772,142
Aripiprazole	1,484,867
Lithium carbonate	836,238
Valproic acid	542,325
Amisulpride	399,643
Haloperidol	328,093
Chlorpromazine hydrochloride	227,317
Levomepromazine hydrochloride	122,009

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Release date

June 2022

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United Kingdom (England)

Survey time period

2021

Supplementary notes

Drugs used in psychoses and related disorders includes drugs used to treat the symptoms of mental disorders such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
The statistic shows the number of prescription items dispensed. 'Items' is the number of times a product appears on a prescription form. Prescription forms include both paper prescriptions and electronic messages.

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