NEW YORK-A well-known antipsychotic drug may be helpful in alleviating severe eye pain, with fewer side effects than standard treatment, according to one researcher.

Used since 1951 by French. physicians and approved by the FDA in 1954, chlorpromazine (Thorazine) has become the archetypal antipsychotic, to the point that its oral 100-mg form is used as the standard to grade the potency of other antipsychotics. But chlorpromazine has another use. According to Jay Fleischman, MD, chlorpromazine can be given via retrobulbar injection to patients suffering with a blind painful eye (BPE).

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