Stemetil Can Kill you...
by meverett Friday, Jul. 29, 2005 at 9:51 AM

Iatrogenic Stemetil Poisoning

Stemetil Can Kill You...!

There is growing concern in Ontario that far too many doctors are prescribing "contraindicated" medications with utter disregard for patient safety, and Stemetil is no exception. This is a very bad trend. I am personally aware of another such case involving questionable use of Stemetil when it was clearly "contraindicated", that resulted in death. Other cases involving injury or death have been reported as allergic reactions. The exact number of Stemetil related injury and/or deaths is unknown because less than 10% of drug outcomes are reported. Many of the cases are undoubtedly the result of imprudence on the part of incompetent or negligent physicians. In my opinion, doctors who prescribe or order "contraindicated" drugs for their patients are guilty of criminal negligence. They should be divested of their right to practice medicine, fined heavily, and jailed. In cases where death results from failure to comply with the manufacturer's directives (WARNINGS), the exact same penalties that apply to "negligence causing death" should be handed down by indictment. The law applies equally to everyone, physicians are no exception.

Case in point: A hunter may be licenced to carry guns "for the pupose for which they are intended", namely hunting game. He has no right to discharge the guns "BLINDLY" with utter disregard for public safety. There's a similar case in point that could also be made for "reckless" licensed drivers who don't obey rules of the road and "ignore" WARNING signs, etc., etc., as a rule of thumb. Physicians who elect to act with "wanton and reckless disregard for human life" should be treated NO different. There's a barrel full of bad doctors out there that need to be shown the error of their ways, otherwise nothing changes.

A noble is to right wrongs and smite injustice whenever and wherever they encounter it for the good of those people which have been entrusted into their care. Turning a "blind-eye" to such negligence shows little or no concern for public safety. This is not unusual for a government backscratching drug trade bent on the path of corruption where grand corruption is rampant at the top level of government - a common feature of the McGuinty? government in Ontario (typical of a constituency severely lacking in social and moral values), whose only values evolve around the almighty dollar, and protecting each other from being . It seems clear that we are living in a a nation of cowards and shirkers.

The neuroleptics or antipsychotics are the most frequently prescribed drugs in mental hospitals, and are widely used in board-and-care homes, nursing homes, institutions for people with mental retardation, children's facilities, and prisons. They also are given to millions of patients in public clinics and to hundreds of thousands in private psychiatric offices. Often they are prescribed for anxiety, sleep problems, and other difficulties in a manner that runs contrary to the usual recommendations. And too often, they are administered to children with behavior problems, even children who are living at home and going to school. Rather than treating a disease, the neuroleptics create a disease. The neuroleptic drugs are chemical lobotomizing agents with no specific therapeutic effect on any symptoms or problems. Their main impact is to blunt and subdue the individual. They also physically paralyze the body, rendering the individual less able to react or to move. They produce a chemical lobotomy and a chemical straitjacket. The drugs are also the cause of brain damage that afflicts up to half or more of long-term patients. The original ones, including Thorazine and Mellaril, are called phenothiazines.

Chemical Lobotomy:

While the neuroleptics are toxic to most brain functions, disrupting nearly all of them, they have an especially well-documented impact on the dopamine neurotransmitter system. Dopamine neurotransmitters provide the major nerve pathways from the deeper brain to the frontal lobes and limbic system--the very same areas struck by surgical lobotomy. Most psychosurgery cuts the nerve connections to and from the frontal lobes and limbic system; chemical lobotomy largely interdicts the nerve connections to the same regions. Either way, coming or going, it's a lobotomy effect. Clinically, the drugs produce a lobotomy and neurologically the drugs produce a lobotomy. Starting from two main trunks deep in the brain, the dopamine nerves spread out like the branches of a tree, reaching into the emotion-regulating limbic system and frontal lobes. This dopamine tree is shut down by the neuroleptics.

Tardive dyskinesia is a movement disorder, frequently caused by neuroleptics drugs that can afflict any of the voluntary muscles, from the eyelids, tongue, larynx, and diaphragm to the neck, arms, legs, and torso. On rare occasions it can occur after a few weeks or months, but usually it strikes the individual after six months to two years of treatment. Some psychiatrists try to blame the neurological disorder on schizophrenia rather than on the drugs. It manifests as uncontrollable twitches, spasms, or writhing movements. Any of the neuroleptics can cause tardive dyskinesia.

We've all heard of the Chemical Straightjacket. To be put in a chemical straightjacket ca

In summary, the neuroleptic drugs are chemical lobotomizing agents with no specific therapeutic effect on any symptoms or problems. Their main impact is to blunt and subdue the individual.n be terrifyingthey also physically paralyze the body, rendering the individual less able to react or to move. Thus they produce a chemical lobotomy and a chemical straitjacket

CONTRAINDICATIONS/PRECAUTIONS: All phenothiazines, including prochlorperazine can cause neuromuscular reactions, particularly dystonias.

Prochlorperazine can worsen conditions in patients with organic or traumatic brain damage. This is a relative contraindication, and the exact cause of this phenomenon is unknown. Patients with underlying temperature dysregulation can have this condition amplified by prochlorperazine. In patients with underlying tardive dyskinesia, prochlorperazine can worsen the condition in the long term. An alternative antiemetic or anProchlorperazine can cause hypotension, so patients with cardiovascular disorders could have exacerbation of their conditions if administered prochlorperazine. tipsychotic should be considered. Concomitant administration of prochlorperazine and other anticholinergics, including atropine, monoamine oxidase inhibitors, phenothiazines, antihistamines, antidepressants, meperidine, and antiparkinsonian agents, can cause additive adverse effects such as oversedation, paralytic ileus, and severe constipation.

Stemetil is widely distributed into body tissues and crosses the blood-brain barrier. The drug STEMETIL has a history of adverse reactions resulting in -induced hypoxia with irreversible brain damage due to oxygen starvation of the brain, including "sudden, unexpected and unexplained s" in hospitalized patients.

Parkinsn's List DataBase prochlorperazine / Compazine, ... describes Stemetil as a HIGH RISK antipsychotic-antiemetic with a history of adverse effects most commonly related to the "high potency" neuroleptic . Prochlorperazine (Canadian generic name for the same medication. Stemetil is hepatically metabolized (well absorbeed into the gastrointestinal tract, with high concentrations into the liver and spleen).

Less than 16 hours after Arlene Berry's admission to the Kirkland and District Hospital on May 23rd of 2000 her family was notified that she had just died meeting brain death criteria. She was administered Stemetil for "control of nausea". The record documents a PRECAUTION for a "RESISTANT BACTERIA". Stemetil was contraindicated to CNS depression, including an untreated diabetes and toxic condition at the onset. No diagnosis was made, and her physician failed to attend - he treated her over the telephone, unseen. She had a "resistant" bacterial infection. Stemetil exacerbated her condition resulting in sepsis followed by spontaneous meningitis. She died unnecessarily, the victim of a drug induced nightmare of unprecendeted magnitude.