What the wikipedia clozapine page might look like in half a century

Or less if i can figure out an alternative.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulin_shock_therapy

This was a nationally approved treatment for schizophrenia.

People used to be injected with massive doses of insulin to induce comas and seizures. This would happen many times in a week to the patients and while they were in a coma ECT would sometimes also be used.

It is always the absence of an alternative that allows these inhumane treatments to be justified using whatever passes for evidence-based medicine at the time.

At the present time it seems the convenience and inexpensiveness of clozapine is also a significant factor to it's continued use, as well as its suppose effectiveness based upon the cardinal sins of schizophrenia as described by psychiatry.

If patient experience or as a proxy measure patient compliance with treatment was a measure of success then clozapine would be banned right now. Mental healthcare is so far from that sort of measure.