there are two groups in our society that are vulnerable
and sometimes folks do take advantage of them
thats
the young and the elderly
especially those elderly with memory issues and dementia
such as alzheimers disease
this article made me angry and sick
click here to read it
this is the reason why i lost faith in big pharma
i know for years as physicians weve used medicine off
label for health problems not approved by the
fda
respirdal (respiradone) was originally approved by the fda for
use in schizorphrenia
its now more widely used for other things
thats right in the young and the elderly
it was originally sold by johnson and johnson and its janssen
pharma subsidiary
now its generic
they are now paying a $2.2 billion dollar fine
for aggressively marketing respirdal for use in behavior problems
in dementia patients through an elder care sales force designed
to target nursing homes and doctors who treat the elderly
allegations are off label marketing and kickbacks to doctors
and pharmacies
i was given it recently at a real low dose to see if it
could help me sleep at night
since i have sleep loss from taking the aricept (donepezil)
it folks knocked me on my arse
i slept for two days
so i guess it helped some
but i was non functional
kinda like when i was taking vicodin and valium for my
ruptured disk
dont remember a dam thing when i was under their influence
please take the time to read this article
it will make you sick so you might have a barf bag ready
then
i follow a blogger who is married to a man in his early 50s
who has early onset alzheimers disease
her blog is called
missing jim confessions of an alzheimers wife
(if you really want to cry this am just click on the
video jim in his own words to the right side of the blog)
they have two young kids
she writes about her daily struggles with dealing with her
husbands illness raising her kids and working full time
you can just feel the stress extruding from her blogs
recently her son and her went to the library and got books
one he chose was
the disease book a kids guide
later he said mom read the section on alzheimers disease
she opened this kids book and read
alzheimers disease has been called the cruelest disease that
humans have ever faced for it gradually destroys the brain
simple bouts of forgetfulness may be the beginning
but the ending is always the same
kids get left out in seems in dealing with alzheimers
in family members
the alzheimers association has a section dealing with
kids and teens on its website www.alz.org
heres the link
im sure she wishes she had had him watch these videos and
read the information on this website instead
of reading what was in that book
kids and teens are really affected by this disease
for years
lets find a cure
they are the ones who will get to see this disease lessens its
grip on our society
the organicgreen doctor
when my father in law was in an alzheimers home for two years, we did wonder if the home was medicating the patients. They mostly just slept. Sometimes we visited my father in law and couldn't wake him, so just sat there watching him sleep.
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