SOLDIERS/VETERANS DEAD OF PROBABLE SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH (PROB SCD)
THE LIST AS OF 2/27/13-#336 TOTAL (supersedes previous lists)
Š Fred A. Baughman Jr., MD
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By no means is this a complete list. Such deaths are continuing to occur with no clear indication that the military leadership will limit the availability of antipsychotics, antidepressants or prescription "polypharmacy" which can never be scientific, safe or effective. I continue to find 'new' deaths every time I have a spare hour or two to begin Googling again.
I call to the readers attention the posting of Leland Tyrone (#267) which the editor of The Gazette tells us was altered at the military's request. How common or routine are such alterations. How many of these probable SCDs have been called "suicides"? How many accidental or other multiple drug toxicities or overdoses when they are none of these things?
There can be no rational or scientific change of psychiatric drug policy in the US military until such time as there has been a full acknowledgement and explanation of these and all similar deaths in the militaryFAB