“What medication can you take for aggressive behavior?”

We’ll have you friend talk to doctor and a therapy. There might always be other things going on that can cause anger. Yes. There are meds to help with anger but let’s find out what’s going on first with your friend.

Hope that helps.
Dr Sangra

Thank you for your question. Some medications that may help ease aggressive thoughts and behaviors include antipsychotics like risperidone (Risperdal) and haloperidol, and mood stabilizers like carbamazepine (Tegretol), lithium, and valproic acid.
Five types of therapy are also helpful for aggression:
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) can help you learn to identify and change unhelpful behavior patterns and practice more helpful coping techniques. This approach doesn’t focus much on past experiences, but it can help improve symptoms of depression, anxiety, personality disorders, bipolar disorder, and ADHD.
- Psychodynamic Therapy can help you address mental health symptoms and emotional distress by tracing their roots to earlier life events.
- Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) can help you build and practice skills to tolerate distress, regulate emotions, and navigate interpersonal relationships more effectively.
- Interpersonal Therapy can help you explore relational challenges that affect your mood and contribute to depression and other mental health symptoms.
- Parent management training can help address tense family dynamics or unhelpful parenting tactics contributing to or reinforcing aggressive behavior.

See this link...
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/545247#:~:text=Divalproex%20(Depakote)%20and%20carbamazepine%20(,the%20aggressive%20symptoms%20of%20dementia.
and
https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/news/20000404/new-drug-aggressive-children