There have been approximately 100 [one hundred] young soldiers who have died in their sleep on a combination of an antipsychotic [usually Seroquel]an SSRI antidepressant [most often Paxil]and a benzo.

As of about 10 months ago, I had a list of the names, ages and the state in which these soldiers hailed from. Have not had time to keep track of what is happening but did hear this week-end that the list is around 100 soldiers now. I know that several of the soldiers were taking Prozac or Zoloft rather than Paxil. Not all were on a benzo. Don't know anymore if Seroquel was the only antipsychotic inolved.

We can assume that this tragedy can be extrapolated to the population at large, e.g. those psychiatric patients diagnosed as bipolar, PTSD, etc.

Here is the story as it first appeared almost two years ago.

http://www.ssristories.com/show.php?item=2572

First paragraph reads: "A Putnam County veteran who was taking medication prescribed for post-traumatic stress disorder died in his sleep earlier this month, in circumstances similar to the deaths of three other area veterans earlier this year."

Paragraph 3 reads; "Military doctors prescribed Paxil, Klonopin and Seroquel for Johnson, the same combination taken by veterans Andrew White, 23, of Cross Lanes; Eric Layne, 29, of Kanawha City; and Nicholas Endicott of Logan County. All were in apparently good physical health when they died in their sleep.

http://wvgazette.com/News/200805230640

May 24, 2008
Vets taking PTSD drugs die in sleep
Hurricane man's death the 4th in West Virginia
By Julie Robinson
Staff writer

By Julie Robinson

jul...@wvgazette.com

A Putnam County veteran who was taking medication prescribed for post-traumatic stress disorder died in his sleep earlier this month, in circumstances similar to the deaths of three other area veterans earlier this year.

Derek Johnson, 22, of Hurricane, served in the infantry in the Middle East in 2005, where he was wounded in combat and diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder while hospitalized.

Military doctors prescribed Paxil, Klonopin and Seroquel for Johnson, the same combination taken by veterans Andrew White, 23, of Cross Lanes; Eric Layne, 29, of Kanawha City; and Nicholas Endicott of Logan County. All were in apparently good physical health when they died in their sleep.

Johnson was taking Klonopin and Seroquel, as prescribed, at the time of his death, said his grandmother, Georgeann Underwood of Hurricane. Both drugs are frequently used in combination to treat post-traumatic stress disorder. Klonopin causes excessive drowsiness in some patients.

Five pages is alot. But I notice most psych drug ads in magazines have at least two pages of small print. Enough to intimidate most people, I hope!

BNET ganked the images I scanned in and uploaded to imagebam. I can tell from the top right edges of the PDF of the rest of the 5 pages of ads on BNET. At least my work went to good use. http://www.imagebam.com/image/461e5458991599

my grandma gets people magazine and was thoroughly disgusted by the 5+ pages of warnings. the doctors tried to put my grandpa (now deceased) on seroquel when he had alzheimer's. thank god for his primary care physician who promptly called the hospital and screamed at the doctors over the phone. i can't imagine what would have happened to him had they actually made him take it.

well, people aren't dying in their sleep from Chantix but look at the recent commercials with their thousands of problems. That drug is just as bad if not worse.. it makes you wish you died in your sleep.