How Drug Abuse by Bicyclists Led to a Medicine for Psychosis
Psychology Today | 06.08.2026 00:15
There have been many different pathways to developing psychotropic drugs. None, perhaps, have differed as much as the discovery of haloperidol, which exemplifies the role of creative intuition, and the development of fluoxetine, which came from systematic development of a molecule based on a theory of chemistry underlying mental illness. Let's look at each of these, and see what they say about the genesis of new medicines.
