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Old drug quiets the nightmares of war.
Byline: J. Patrick Coolican
SEATTLE _ Millions of combat veterans have lived through these nightmares every night, often for decades, as one symptom of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Now though, a group of PTSD patients at the Veterans Administration hospital in Seattle say they are getting a nightly reprieve with help from Dr. Murray Raskind, a VA psychiatrist. Since 1998, Raskind has been experimenting with prazosin, an old blood-pressure medication that, in tests, has reduced and often stopped the nightmares.
If the drug delivers on its promise, prazosin could transform the lives of hundreds of thousands of veterans, including a new generation of soldiers returning from Iraq.
"I would lie in bed and say, 'I can't handle it anymore.' It's time to end it. But since I started this, life is so nice," said Vietnam veteran Larry Scott, 56.
"It changed everything. It was like being born again," said Don Hall, who lives in Seattle and was the first PTSD patient to take prazosin, in 1998. He now takes it nightly before bed.
Raskind, vice chairman of ...
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