Seroquel and the sudden death warning on the label, why was the warning lost in the news headlines? what about people with mental illness?

Did the warning of sudden death and QT prolongation side effect warning make it to your newspaper headline? do you know someone or are you someone diagnosed with mental illness?

Has anyone ever wondered why drugs such as Avandia make the headlines but serious label revisions for antipsychotics don't?

Could it be discrimination? could it be that people with mental illness are discriminated against daily and treated as second class citizens? that this drug, the antipsychotic Seroquel is just considered one of those crazy people pills?

I'm not going to make people feel better by reading words candy coated such as "schizophrenics" or "crazy pills". What people with mental illness are up against in their lives are medications that don't work, meds that are forced on them due to court orders as discharge plans when leaving psychiatric hospitals, and drugs that have massive and serious, deadly warnings on the labels.

But, people say, "I care about my loved one, as long as they are here that is what matters."

No. At what cost do you want them here? have they been prescribed an antipsychotic for insomnia or as an add-on to their antidepressant? take the long list of side effects on both of those drugs and ask yourself just how much human determination do you expect your loved one to have?

You cannot overcome a crisis when loaded up on potent chemicals and even begin to think about long term and quality of life, hell they can't even speak or form words after a B-52 forced injection in the locked psych wards.

This is all America has to offer it's war veterans? drugs that can cause them to die in their sleep when treated for PTSD?

Why is the U.S.Dept of Veterans Affairs willing to risk the use of Seroquel and Paxil in a study for PTSD, and why was that study sponsored by AstraZeneca the makers of Seroquel?

Who are the mentally ill in America? are they people who matter? are they anyone with a mental illness diagnosis? the soldiers, the trauma survivors, the kids with bipolar disorder diagnosis, the mothers who suffer with post partum depression? the people with schizophrenia? your neighbors? your friends? your family members?

It's time for America to consider the billions of dollars spent on antipsychotics every year, and reconsider the treatment model for mental illness that has become a CASH COW FOR PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES.

It's time for label revisions such as QT Prolongation for Seroquel to be front page headlines in newspapers, and it's time for the FDA to consider the true health and safety of the people they are serving: the citizens of the United States of America and the most vulnerable ones at that.

Step up to the plate and stop the madness, call the FDA, call the White House, talk about second class citizens, and remind them people with mental illness matter!