[Tolerance of sultopride (author's transl)].

Especially used in the psychiatric emergency field for the rapidity of its action, sultopride, a sedative but not ataraxic drug, has been used for prolonged cures in 45 patients with important characterial disturbances. Heavy doses sometime needed for achieving aggressive tendions were not an obstacle in regard of the tolerance of these prolonged cures, as proves the cases of a mental deficient patient whom agitated and aggressive drug resistant episodes recovered with a barnetil continued treatment by 3,600 mg a day (nine tablets) for more than a year without any sign of intolerance.