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British report said Alzheimer's patients are dying earlier because of controversial sedatives known as neuroleptics. A five-year study by Britain's Alzheimer's Research Trust found that patients died an average of six months earlier because of the sedatives, which are associated with a significant deterioration in verbal fluency and cognitive f

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  • Avg rating: (+3/-0 3)hiscity
    hiscity
    March 31, 2007, 7:30 p.m.

    Of course, that's what's done in the medical community with ailments that can't be helped -- like thorazine plus morphine to hallucinate through the last 3 months of your terminal illness.

    Or mixed tranquilizers and sedatives to definitely end the chronic depression of someone like Anna Nicole Smith.

    Or chemotherapy to poison the cancer just short of killing the person, perhaps, regardless of whatever other damage or hastened aging might occur.

    "The tender mercies of the wicked are cruel."

    • Avg rating: (+0/-0 0)1-2-Oscar
      1-2-Oscar
      March 31, 2007, 9:03 p.m.

      Sedatives are merely the instrument of choice. It's really the doctors who are killing Alzheimer's patients.

      • Avg rating: (+0/-0 0)evelyna
        evelyna
        March 31, 2007, 11:11 p.m.

        If you are the spouse of an alzheimers or stroke patient the drs do not want to prescribe pills and they tell the spouse to deal with it.

        Just doesn't seem fair.

        How can they really prove the people would have lived 6 months longer?

        • Avg rating: (+4/-0 4)NormanSWofford
          NormanSWofford
          Sept. 22, 2007, 11:35 a.m.

          It's interesting!

          http://www.vbnet.ru/

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