Cheaper psychotropic drugs

Treatment for psychosis will finally become affordable as the National Health Security Office (NHSO) is planning to add two psychotropic drugs - Risperidone and Sertraline - to the national drug list, NHSO secretarygeneral, Dr Winai Swasdivorn, said yesterday

He made the announcement after attending a meeting at which an NHSO subcommittee proposed that these two drugs be added to the national list because their commercial licenses had already expired.

Once the drugs are added to the national list, the Government Pharmaceutical Organisation (GPO) can produce cheaper, generic versions. Winai said antidepressant Sertraline will only cost Bt5 per....