I personally found the piece irritating. Atypicals do have serious side effects too. And those side effects do sometimes cause stigma and non-compliance. You get the feeling the authors work for a pharmaceutical company.

My question is why are atypicals so much more expensive. My son's medication, olanzapine, is off patent, and he takes the generic. Nevertheless, it stills costs something like $400 per month - which the tax payer picks up the bill for.

Btw my son has never been prescribed one of the older APs - even before he was on Medicare.

The comments to the story were more insightful IMO.