PTSD: Anti-Psychotic Drugs Condemned by VA Study

The same for anti-depressant drugs.

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(MOLALLA, Ore.) - About one million combat veterans from Vie4tnam to the present would/could tell the VA and the military medicos. The same thing after being treated like lab rats for the past 40 or so years with not only lack of success but worsening of symptoms with suicides, murder, alcoholism and "illegal drug use".

The illegal drug is usually marijuana and the combat veterans know that it works better than any anti-psychotic or anti-depressant drug.

In the meantime, the drug companies and their lobbyists in Washington are making billions of dollars selling to the VA and the military, etc. Check it out for yourselves.

The New York Times on August 3 2011 issued a report in the JAMA, (Journal of the American Medical Association), about this subject, in which a research group affiliated with the VA performed a double blind study with 123 PTSD veterans on an anti-psychotic drug Risperdal and 124 veterans on placebo sugar pills. They found the drug was successful only 5% of the time, and only 10 to 20% of veterans showed some relief.

These results indicate the ridiculous and dangerous failure of these type of drugs which also include Seroquel, Geodon and Abilify. Most of this type of drugs only produce a zombifying, stupefying brain depression of no benefit but very bad, adverse side effects.

There is most likely a valid reason for the miserable failure of these drugs along with the small number of successes. PTSD is NOT a certain definitive syndrome.

It can be very mild which may be the 5% who were helped. PTSD is on a scale of 1 to `10, the lower grades, 1-3 probably need minimal medical intervention. Those 8's, 9's and 10's are almost beyond drug help, in fact any help. The VA itself reports that about fifty percent of PTSD veterans do not seek VA medical help. They know from the underground telegraph that they will be treated like lab rats, and their pleas for help are brutally ignored with 300k veterans waiting for adequate treatment.

The VA still seems to think that talk therapy will reduce the chief PTSD symptoms of nightmares, panic attacks and reclusive behavior. They don't understand that severe PTSD victims in the 8, 9 and 10 range CAN NOT talk about their demons even if the VA shrinks "think so".

The Times article says that the anti-psychotic drugs tend to include relaxation (stupefying), increased exposure to stress triggers (terror) and inaccurate assumptions which fuel anxiety (terror again).

A really weird comment was made by a doctor named Charles Hoge, a senior scientist at Walter Reed Army Hospital (Recent research has found that about 24 months after a one-year deployment is about enough for the body to reset itself psychologically. This is the standard VA BS. It just don't work like that! Many PTSD symptoms get worse after 24 months.

We PTSD victims need help... and why not!

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