"Seroquel.... another example of how many prescription drugs cross over into the illicit drug market.... sought on the street by former drug addicts or inmates who were first prescribed them.... even some schizophrenics loathe the drug, saying it makes them feel like a zombie"
And they are giving this stuff to KIDS?!!!!!!!!!!
Related: Why You Are Getting National Health Care
Yup, the BIGGEST DRUG DEALERS in the WORLD -- the AmeriKan Pharmaceutical Industry -- PROFITING off the BLACK MARKET with the STATE CREATING an ADDICTED CLASS of CAPTIVES!!
Now go get your swine flu shot!
"Psychiatric drug sought on streets; Growing in popularity as sedative" by Patricia Wen, Globe Staff | July 13, 2009
Seroquel debuted 12 years ago as a novel drug for adult patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, a powerful pill that would help stabilize their emotional lives. Psychiatrists began prescribing these tablets to others - children with serious mental illnesses and adults with anxiety or depression.
But these days, the use of Seroquel is growing in popularity in a different group: men and women living on the margins who simply want a good night’s rest. “Seroquel puts you to sleep,’’ said Luis Lopez, 28, a patient at Men’s Addiction Treatment Center in Brockton who used to buy Seroquel tablets from drug dealers. “We all know from the streets that’s how it works.’’
The street use of Seroquel as a sedative is yet another example of how many prescription drugs cross over into the illicit drug market, creating incentives for dealers to illegally obtain the drug.... The drug, made by
Darn. Their television ads are always so soothing and relaxing from what I remember.
In a 2007 letter published in the American Journal of Psychiatry, Dr. Emil Pinta, who worked with drug abusers in an Ohio prison, said some inmates were known to fake psychotic symptoms just to continue a Seroquel habit to help them sleep. He urged clinicians to be more wary in prescribing this medication, known by its chemical name of quetiapine, and urged studies “to explore the addiction potential’’ of the drug.
There are no statistics to measure the abuse of the drug, but many clinicians who work in drug treatment programs said they noticed an uptick in Massachusetts over the past five years....
Great. No wonder there is so much drug addiction and crime in this state. Pffft!
Dr. Alex Walley, a substance abuse specialist with the Boston Public Health Commission, said Seroquel gained street value as the tablets began filling the medicine cabinets of a broader cross-section of psychiatric patients.
Your hand ever get tired from doling out the poisons in the prisons, doc?
Even though the Food and Drug Administration has approved Seroquel for adults with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, psychiatrists are allowed to use their judgment and prescribe “off-label’’ for other purposes.
Oh, well, I feel better already!
See: Prescribing Our Kids to Death
Over the years, with a shortage of other effective psychiatric medications, Seroquel has been prescribed for children with schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder, and for adults with anxiety and depression. FDA advisory panels, in fact, this year have recommended broadening the authorized uses of Seroquel.
THEY are the NUTS!! Evil fucking crazies!!!!
Dr. Joseph Glenmullen, a psychiatrist and clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School, said Seroquel’s emergence as a street drug is further proof that psychiatrists have to be more careful with their prescription pads, resisting the trend in which “antipsychotics are being overprescribed for off-label uses.’’
You will forgive me for no longer trusting you, doc.
Your colleagues here ruined it for you.
Some clinicians say they are profoundly saddened by the idea that people on the streets are using a powerful antipsychotic drug just to fall asleep; even some schizophrenics loathe the drug, saying it makes them feel like a zombie.
“It’s not thought of as a fun drug,’’ said Michael Otto, director of the Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders at Boston University. But Seroquel has its appeal....
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In New England, the prescription drugs most commonly abused are OxyContin, Xanax, and Vicodin, all of which are controlled substances, said Nancy Coffey, diversion program manager of the Drug Enforcement Administration in New England. She said the DEA does not monitor Seroquel because it is not a controlled substance.
Related: MIT Drug Ring
Why the TYPO and NO FOLLOW UP, Globe?
Officials at AstraZeneca condemned the misuse of Seroquel, which is one of the top-selling drugs worldwide, with more than $4 billion in sales last year.
And those are only the LEGAL NUMBERS!
“Unfortunately, drug abuse extends not just to illicit substances, but also to medicines that are safe, effective, and necessary when used according to doctors’ prescriptions and advice,’’ said Kirsten Evraire, a spokeswoman for the company. She said AstraZeneca supports the efforts of government enforcers to work on the “misuse and abuse of prescription medicines.’’
As the cash register goes ka-ching!
Clinicians at many drug treatment programs and prisons have begun to curb Seroquel prescriptions to minimize abuse....
The question must be asked: WHY are they giving DRUG ADDICTS NARCOTICS?
Nicholas Tenaglia, program director of Men’s Addiction Treatment Center in Brockton, said the motivation to secretly acquire the pills, he said, is sleep. “That’s what I get 99 percent of the time when I ask someone why they abuse Seroquel,’’ he said. “They say it’s not to get high - it’s to knock them out.’’
What a REAL RACKET they have going, huh?
