This slide depicts the “odds” (likelihood) of developing heart disease, diabetes, pneumonia, suicide, stroke, or dementia for mentally ill patients based upon exposure to antidepressant (AD) or antipsychotic (AP) drugs.
	Numerous investigations, performed in a variety of age groups, have demonstrated the potential of pharmaceuticals to accelerate the risks of disease and death.  Even when compared to similarly diagnosed patients who have avoided antidepressant or antipsychotic drugs, consumers of these medications have been two to fifteen times more likely to attempt or complete suicide, and two to seven times more likely to develop pneumonia, diabetes, heart disease, or stroke.
	Equally important -- but seldom discussed by health care professionals – the use of antidepressant or antipsychotic drugs has been repeatedly associated with a two- to fourteen-fold higher likelihood of dementia.