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How do you manage acute agitation or psychosis in patients who are already taking aripiprazole (oral or long-acting injectable)?

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Psychiatry · Franciscan Health Systems

Episodes of acute agitation are considered a psychiatric emergency, and considering treatment with dual antipsychotics (which will only be temporary) should have a lower threshold of consideration. Dual antipsychotic treatment is controversial, but there are promising results as well however (Ortiz-...

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