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Tracking the American Epidemic of Mental Illness - Part III

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"These frequent, sudden deaths occurring in the military are due to its policy of reckless, anti-scientific, psychiatric drugging," he warns.


Veterans Dying


"Official figures regarding military "suicides" also have to be taken with a grain of salt," Baughman says.


In 2008, after reading an article in the Charleston Gazette, titled "Vets Taking Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Drugs Die in Sleep," Baughman began to investigate veterans dying in their sleep because the deaths did not make sense. "Young men in their twenties do not suddenly die for no reason," he points out.


He specifically investigated the deaths of four West Virginia veterans who died unexpectedly in their sleep in 2008, including Andrew White, Eric Layne, Nicholas Endicott and Derek Johnson. At the time, Stan White, Andrew's father, knew of eight such cases in Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia.


Baughman learned that all four veterans had been diagnosed with PTSD and all were taking the same three-drug cocktail consisting of Seroquel, an atypical antipsychotic, Paxil, an antidepressant, and the anti-anxiety drug, Klonopin.


His investigation determined they did not commit suicide or go into a coma, as a result of an accidental mixed drug overdose, as suggested by the military. "None of the veterans who died in their sleep were drunk, drugged, or overdosed when they went to bed, they all appeared normal," Baughman says.


Within a year, he had learned of between 70 and 80 more similar cases. "These are undoubtedly sudden cardiac deaths," he reports, "due to the prescription of antipsychotics and antidepressants."


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