[Eva]

My son-in-law has a schizophrenic brother, who is 17 years older than he is. It’s a real problem because his father just died and the brother is left to care for the mother, who he sometimes wants to kill because she had him hospitalized one time and he blames her for allowing the doctors to pull the plug on the father last month. It’s a nightmare. The nurses and social workers at the hospital, where the father was being treated, all told him that the brother cannot be allowed to care for the mother, but the brother is 51 years old. He hears voices and holds conversations with the voices. He has tried several times to kill the mother, but was pulled off by either the father or the brother. He hasn’t been on meds for years.

I was looking up help for him and I found that there is some new drug that they inject once a month, no more daily pills. That is according to the public health service in Walnut Creek, CA, where he lives.

[muawiyah]

That's an expensive address ~ they have EVERYTHING there ~ but I'd bet it's more like a monthly persistent injectable sedative. He'll still hold the conversations, but nobody will get all that angry. Took seconds to find out paliperidone palmitate is the new kid on the block ~ as a persistent, long lasting anti-psychotic. The old drug only lasts 2 weeks.

I think if anyone has talked to the county sheriff he'd have told them that if this guy has ever threatened to kill someone it will probably happen, so be happy to get him into jailhouse custody ~ they'll make sure he gets his drugs, or wish he had! Sounds primitive doesn't it ~ but he's a 51 year old man up against an old lady. In jail there are some tough dudes. Maybe he has enough control over his psychotic episodes to let one of his wiser heads prevail.

Remember, if he does kill someone he will end up there anyway.