Seroquel Named Product of the Year

Wow, I was wrong all along. Seroquel is a spectacular drug and was just named product of the year--break out the champagne and balloons!--by the National Business & Disability Council. Maybe, these business blow job groups ought to check in with patients who live in the real world before providing propoganda to major pharma corporations. Of course, it's this thrum of acceptability that helps explain why none of the main mental health advocacy groups in America--who are allegedly working for patients--will criticize atypicals. This sickens me. I don't expect them to denounce atypicals but to actually listen to the millions of bipolars and schizophrenics who take these meds in a non-public health setting (ie, the 75 percent of us with mental illness who aren't on Medicaid, SSI, etc.) because these drugs are not proving out as something we can live with on a day to day basis while trying to have fully engaged lives. Some honesty is needed and this is apparently the only place providing it.