Letter on Mysterious deaths and Atypical Drug Risks

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_Fred Baughman, M.D._ (fabjrmd)

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Wednesday, November 04, 2009 11:13 AM

To WSJ re military 'suicides'

 

 

 

 

 

FRED A. BAUGHMAN, JR. M.D.*

NEUROLOGY AND CHILD NEUROLOGY (Board Certified)

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Tim Lemmer, Editor, Letters

Wall Street Journal

To the Editor:

Re: Suicide Toll Fuels Worry That Army is Strained, by Yochi J. Dreazen,

WSJ, November 3, 2009

There are frequent, sudden deaths occurring in the military due to its

policy of reckless, anti-scientific, psychiatric drug, polypharmacy. I say

" anti-scientific " because, in psychiatry, there are no actual physical

abnormalities/diseases to make normal (e.g., insulin in diabetes,

chemotherapy in cancer, antibiotics for infections)--only diabolically crafted,

‘big

lie’ illusions of diseases. Although antipsychotics (Ray, et al, 2009),

antidepressants (Whang, et al, 2009) and psychostimulants/amphetamines (Gould,

et al, 2009).) have been proved to increase the risk of sudden cardiac

death, they are routinely prescribed together, as if no such risk was known.

 

While Surgeon General of the Army Eric B. Schoomaker acknowledged a

" series, a sequence " of deaths, in a February 7, 2008, Chicago Tribune

interview,

there has been no explanation of these deaths--only continued references

to " suicides " and " accidental drug overdoses " --always adding that illegal

drugs and substances were also involved.

Stan White (father of deceased veteran Andrew White) and I have " Googled "

over a hundred such military deaths. Young men in their twenties do not

suddenly die for no reason at all, to be " found " " in their barracks, " “at

their workstations, " or “in their beds, " but never, beforehand, seen

semi-comatose, comatose, and never resuscitated, never making it to a hospital

or

ICU, and never surviving--all of which are common with the more usual

central nervous system depressant drug overdose. In Atypical antyipsychotic

drugs and the risk of Sudden Cardiac Death, Ray et al, NEJM 2009;360:225-35,

wrote: “The study end point was SCD (sudden cardiac death) occurring in the

community. SCD was defined as a sudden pulseless condition that was

fatal, that was consistent with a ventricular tachyarrhythmia, and that

occurred in the absence of a known noncardiac condition as the proximate cause

of

death. The end point excluded deaths of patients who had been admitted to

the hospital, deaths that were not sudden, and deaths for which there was

evidence of an extrinsic cause (e.g., drug overdose), a non-cardiac cause

(e.g., pneumonia), or a cardiac cause that was not consistent with a

ventricular tachyarrhythmia (e.g., heart failure).â€

It is time for the truth about these deaths from the Surgeon General of

the Army and from the House and Senate Veterans Affairs Committees.

It is time for an end to the for-profit, anti-scientific, psychiatric

drugging, not just of the US military, but of the US public-at-large—the

greatest health care fraud in history. Either the House, the Senate and White

House find the will to say " no " to Big Pharma or we will all become,

drugged, dependent, zombies.