What about the British studies that found that cheap Haldol was just as effective(?) as any of them? Anything that sedates people will appear effective. Everyone has a theory, This is mine.

I am eternally grateful that Zyprexa is losing market share. A heck of a lot of people worked to make this happen, despite the FDA's complete ignoring of this lethal drug; despite the evidence loud and clear in their internal documents
that revealed that the company knew it could cause diabetes, hyperglycemia, and death. But I would say to Western Europe, look out. Lilly is making a big push there to make up its loss of market share here. The same thing will happen.

Just five years ago, my only son demonstrated some odd symptoms. Two days later, while the "snipers" were driving all around the hospital where he was taken, he fell into a coma, never to come out. He died on October 5, 2002, at the age of 39, of profound hyperglycemia from Zyprexa. A wonderful human being, he had managed well on lithium for years, finished college and got a Master's at Cornell. But when he went onto Maryland Medicaid, he was pushed onto Zyprexa. I believe that bribery got the drug on Medicaid's formulary in Maryland and many other states, and I hope that all fifty, as opposed to the current ten states, will sue Lilly.

To all those at Lilly assigned to monitor Furious Seasons, I ask you if your paycheck is worth making instruments of death. And to the decision makers in Washington, who glide by all the deaths; all the members of Congress and the FDA who could be doing something, I ask you if your jobs are worth the bribes that you get from Pharma that result in so much death.

And in memory of my beloved son, I would like to suggest that the answer to these questions is "no".

In my opinion, Haldol was the worst drug ever developed. I always make a point of claiming to be allergic to it. It might have been cheap, but it was a nightmare. I also find Lithium to be extremely over-rated and also inexpensive.

As I keep harping on about, statistics and studies aren't terribly effective when it comes to doing what's right for any particular patient. We need patient-based, rather than evidence-based, medicine. I'm taking Seroquel "off-label" (as a sedative), as little as I can get away with, and it seems to be working reasonably well. 100% of the people in this study are doing okay, for now. That's all I know.

Then there's orthomolecular psychiatry...