“At the fag end of life, we are disappointed, we are frustrated. Brdhya kala aula saba sukha pagala. When we cannot again, no more, we can enjoy with our senses, then we become very much depressed. Old men. You’ll find old men, those who are not spiritually inclined, they’re very morose. Morose because they cannot use anymore the senses. They sometimes take medicine. But how it can be done? So drdhya kala aula. So we are under this illusion.”
Bhagavad-gita 13.1-2
by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Bombay, December 29, 1972
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Global Antipsychotic Sale Statistics | Wikipedia
Wikipedia: “Antipsychotics are among the biggest selling and most profitable of all drugs, generating $22 billion in global sales in 2008.[12] By 2003 in the US, an estimated 3.21 million patients received antipsychotics, worth an estimated $2.82 billion.
Over 2/3 of prescriptions were for the newer more expensive atypicals, each costing on average $164 compared to $40 for the older types.[13] By 2008, sales in the US reached $14.6 billion, the biggest selling drugs in the US by therapeutic class.[14] The number of prescriptions for children and adolescents doubled to 4.4 million between 2003 and 2006, in part because of increases in diagnoses of bipolar disorder.[15]
Due to the chronic nature of the treated disorders, antipsychotic medications, once started, are seldom discontinued, and the aim of the treatment is often to gradually reduce dosage to a minimum safe maintenance dose that is enough to control the symptoms. Only when the side-effects have become too severe and/or a patient have been symptom-free for a long periods of time is discontinuation carefully attempted. Improper discontinuation or abrupt restarting of neuroleptics have been shown to cause dysfunction in regions of the brainstem as well as dysfunction of the autonomic nervous system.”
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