Australian researchers have uncovered an alarming increase of Seroquel-related ambulances calls. Rising prescriptions of of the drug along with its developing use as a drug of abuse have contributed to an increase from 32 calls to 598 over the last ten years. One author, speaking about Seroquel in Australian Doctor, said “quetiapine-related overdoses were more likely to result in … coma or death than all other antipsychotics combined.”
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Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry March 2012 vol. 46 no. 3: 279-280
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