Worthless Drugs

There's a story on Alternet about the prescribing of deadly psychiatric drug cocktails to treat PTSD and the death of Sgt. Eric Layne. Eric Layne died while taking Seroquel, a drug originally approved for use in treating schizophrenia with Paxil and Klonopin. What I want to point out is how psychiatry is using drugs like Seroquel, a drug approved for schizophrenia to treat PTSD. Is the same chemical imbalance being corrected in both schizophrenia and PTSD? The answer is no, that's why I hate calling neuroleptic drugs like Seroquel antipsychotics. They're anti-anything. Janette Layne, Sgt. Eric Layne's widow testified at an FDA hearing on whether or not to approve the drug as a treatment for depression, there she testified that:

"In summer of 2007, he began taking Klonopin and Seroquel. He ate excessively and would fall asleep with food in his mouth. He had tremors and was extremely lethargic. His speech was slurred to the point I couldn't tell what he was saying. Eric did not have any of these problems before he took these medications."

You might ask yourself, how was Sgt. Eric Layne helped with his PTSD? That description of him should give you some idea. His death was really tragic. What's makes it more tragic is that it likely resulted from the combined toxicity of worthless drugs.