Prescribing cholinesterase inhibitors and memantine for Alzheimer's disease may be unethical due to ineffectiveness and toxic side effects.

“if you go back to the original studies that were used by the FDA to approve these drugs and the reviews that were done subsequently by like the crocheting groups meta-analysis they all conclude very clearly that these drugs are ineffective and they do not improve activities of daily living and that the disease continues and progress and people die in fact in countries were they have more elaborate longitudinal data like in the UK of administration of these compounds to patients with Alzheimer's they know that they die sooner if they're taking these medications that the ones are refused to take them”

“and the UK made an attempt in fact they banned these compounds because they had evidence base they're not only they were ineffective but they were counterproductive”