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| Drugs that can induce Parkinson's disease | ||
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Drugs that can
induce parkinsonism include the antiemetic drugs used to control
vomiting such as the antiarrhythmic amiodarone, the antipsychotic agents haloperidol and chlorpromazine, the antihypertensive agents reserpine, methyldopa, and certain calcium channel blockers like cinnarizine and flunarizine, There was one case of captopril-induced parkinsonism that resolved on drug withdrawal. |