The Army Medical Command has determined that benzodiazepines could worsen rather than reduce PTSD and lead to addiction. The April 10 policy memo also cautions against second-generation antipsychotics due to lack of efficacy and increased risks, including suicides and long-term health effects. An anonymous army doctor said “the nation needs to take a long, hard look at what delayed the institution of these policies, and why the priorities of our Army medical leaders have too often favored the manpower needs of the Army rather than the mental health of its soldiers.”
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I appreciate articles like this documenting the lack of efficacy and outright harm of all psychiatric drugs for PTSD and other labels. Now, even PTSD has become a stigma when the original intent was much different. The fact that this has happened to soldiers for whom the PTSD label was invented primarily along with rape, domestic violence survivors and similar “combat” veterans to recognize their normal response to abnormal events makes it all the more ludicrous that they have been stigmatized as prone to mental illness and subjected to lethal, useless drugs.
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Thank you again Kermit Cole for providing us with breaking news that we activists need to be informed about like this one on PTSD. You are doing the reform movement a great service by searching out articles from around the world. There is no other site like MIA that has such daily cutting edge research being made available.
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This is excellent. Thank you.
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A similar excellent article on the dangers of nasty antipsychotic, Seroquel, for soldiers or anyone. No doubt this reflects money interests because it sure doesn’t reflect any efficacy or concern for soldiers or human beings in general.
http://www.nextgov.com/health/2011/09/military-continues-off-label-drug-use-despite-concerns/49849/
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