M ETABOLIC INSTABILITY, ESPECIALLY weight gain, is associated with some of the psychotropic medications administered to clients in the mental health setting. They include antidepres-sants, mood stabilizers, and antipsychotics used alone or in combination. Drug therapy using antipsychotic drug treatment is the cornerstone of treatment in mental health for psychotic disorders, such as schizophrenia. The treatment of choice for most clients experiencing psychosis is atypical, or second-generation, antipsychotic medication. First-generation or typical antipsychotic medicines came in the market in the middle of the last century and were developed to work on dopamine and serotonin receptors in the brain. These drugs were found to