Low doses of Seroquel for what? Sleeping?

Antonia already mentioned here that she made a mistake typing that name--Seroquel. ( I think she meant Sinequan).

The truth about Seroquel is that Astra Zeneca has deceived physicians in the US about the safety of this drug. They reaped big bucks by hiding the diabetes risk, for years. This prompted
misleading information to doctors that this drug was "safer" than its competitors Risperdal and Zyprexa. And it is not. So many patients were switched to it, when the "truth" about the other two became common knowledge.

Small doses of this for sleeping...? Seroquel is going off patent soon, and their sales force is pushing this drug to internal medicine doctors for patients with "sleeping" trouble. This drug is an antipsychotic. I can remember small doses of Stelazine being pushed on OBGYNs for their menopausal patients to calm the nerves. This lead to huge side effects and damage to the dopamine system. Do doctors give patients in pain with sleeping problems a little bit of Haldol? Time has shown that both the older drugs like Haldol and the newer atypicals, are the SAME....No we don't see a little bit of Haldol, and we shouldn't be fooled into a little bit of Seroquel either! IMO.

Seroquel should remain for psychiatric use only, by trained professionals, who hopefully keep up with the negative studies that come out about the risks of this drug. It should not be used for situations that can be handled with drugs that have less risk.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/142864.php

http://industry.bnet.com/pharma/1000...ctor-perfector

One can search Google and find tons of revealing information about how this drug was and is being marketed.