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There are tons of drug coupon and assistance programs out there for the newer, more expensive drugs.
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Some of the comments point that out. My son was always able to get the newer medications, despite being unemployed and uninsured.
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Also, Haldol is still considered the "gold standard" anti-psychotic by a fair number of doctors, ...
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I agree.
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I, as a high school drop-out, am apparently more capable of finding than all those doctors and college professors put together.
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I suspect the reason for this op-ed piece is less to solve a real problem than to sway public opinion in the direction of spending more tax payer money on drug company products. The many insightful comments to this article won't appear in the print version, of course, and won't be read by many online readers. So the problem is framed as "old drugs bad, new drugs good, lives destroyed by being forced onto old drugs because of stingy tax payers."