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Opinion: The shortage of haloperidol, an ‘old’ drug, haunts me

If the haloperidol shortage continues, there may be a bumpy road ahead of me, filled with aggravating side effects and unknown outcomes, that I will have to somehow take in…

As I sit on the couch in the cozy living room of my home, I hear a man’s low voice singing opera. It’s just far off enough that I can’t make out the lyrics. I also heard it last night while lying in bed.

What I’m hearing isn’t really there. It’s just the spirits in my head.

More than two decades ago, I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder following a brief stay in the psychiatric ward of a hospital in the Hudson Valley. That involuntary hospitalization came at the beginning of what should have been my last semester in college. I

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