Kennedy's impairments/disabilities

Carl Remick carlremick at hotmail.com
Sat Nov 16 16:03:52 PST 2002



>From: Marta Russell <ap888 at lafn.org>
>
>In Kennedy File, a Portrait of Illness and Pain
>
>November 17, 2002
>By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN and TODD S. PURDUM
>
>... In December 1962, after Jacqueline Kennedy complained that
>he seemed "depressed" from taking antihistamines for food
>allergies, he took a prescribed antianxiety drug,
>Stelazine, for two days. At other times he took similar
>medications regularly.

Jesus, talk about burying your lead. Stelazine?! That's a bit more than an "antianxiety" drug, as one web source notes: "Trifluoperazine ( Stelazine ) is an anti psychotic drug of high-potency. Used in the treatment of disorganized and psychotic thinking. Also used to help treat false perceptions (e.g. hallucinations or delusions.)" Too bad JFK wasn't taking the stuff a couple of months earlier, during the Cuban Missile Crisis ;-)

Carl

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