How killing people with a chemical cosh is acceptable if it's done by a doctor

The way psychiatry and doctors have used the privilege of medicine, the
caring profession, on the control of behaviour and emotion is immoral.

Take the antipsychotic. It's not antipsychotic. Neuroleptics were first
called major tranquilisers. They calmed people down without putting them
to sleep. Even the most dangerous drug, clozapine (the one that kills
through agranulocytosis and is signifcantly reducing the life expectancy
of the 6000-7000 in the UK) only stops the delusions in some people -
"some" was what a qualitative paper in the British Journal of Psychiatry
on clozapine written and funded by people who work for the company which
makes it said. This drug is the neurochemical equivalent of a saw-off
shotgun. It hits lots of different receptors to achieve it's effect and
this approach is probably partially why it kills people and reducees
their life expectancy (it's affecting other brain systems which control
the body - that's my guess anyway.)

I spent a long time reading a lot of papers all about clozapine. I can't
believe it was relicensed - it was voluntarily withdrawn by the
manufacturers but psychiatrists wanted in back. I read a series of case
studies about its use. It was amazingly effective *at changing
behaviour*. This was what the case studies seemed to show. The drug
reduced unwanted behaviour.

People who have Alzhiemers aren't experiencing psychosis. Dementia is a
biologicaly caused illness but antipsychotics don't treat the brain
illness nor to do they treat the supposed brain illness in
schizophrenia. In the UK doctors decided to start using antipsychotics
on people with dementia in the community. What were they doing when they
did that? They were using the drug as it truly is. It's a chemcial cosh
or a straitjacket in pill form.

Had they told their patients and their families they should use a
straitjacket and gag I think lots of people would think twice. Instead
they offered them a straitjacket in pill form and because people think
pills treat illnesses they accepted it.

And then a study came out showing that when they used the drug on the
elderly it reduced their life expectancy by 50%. When I heard this it
blew my mind. It blew the UK government's mind too. They got the Royal
College of Psychiatry to write a report. In the report they estimated
that 1,800 old people a year died in the UK because of the use of
antipsychotics... The Royal College of Psychiatry and the one for GPs
and the General Medical Council got away with mass manslaughter with a
simple "doh!" and yet every time a schizophrenic stops using the
chemcial cosh and goes on a rampage (very rarely) it's all over the papers.

Straitjackets and gags would have been safer. They'd also have been more
obviously inhumane. In Scotland SIGN (which is their equivalent of NICE
which is the scientific body which writes clinical guidelines) now
recommend training for carers of people with dementia. What a fucking
obvious way to solve the problem. Rather than use real or chemical
restraints train people to understand and deal with the elderly.

Sadly they're still killing lots of people with mental illnesses and
they're using the drugs on even more diagnoses such as personality
disorders. Doctors are still using antipsychotics on the elderly with
dementia too.