The above is an article that was posted on Beyond Meds about a year ago that explores the source of the statistic about early death and psychiatric drugs. Yesterday’s post on the high rate of deaths associated with psychiatric drug use did not have a link to the source of the statistic used in that article, so I thought I’d share the above article again today that does have some source material. ●  ●

The re-blogging feature is weird. The article is here:  The seriously mentally ill die, on average, 25 years earlier than the general population… (exploring the source of a statistic)

●  ●  While you’re at it you might be interested in the following article about how benzos and sleeping pills are also independently implicated in shortening the life-span of regular users:  Sleeping Pills (benzos and Z-drugs) shorten life-span and a list of other adverse reactions