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Drugs that can induce parkinsonism include

the antiemetic drugs used to control vomiting such as
metoclopramide,

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.

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