"I was cheering for Tom if you had to guess..
That is the scariest thing I've read all day."
Tom Cruise has obviously done his homework. His position is backed up by a variety of professions as well as his religion.
Did you know the FDA agrees with Tom? They just posted information on anti-depressants three days ago. Oh wait, that didn't make the news, or Free Republic. Here is the link if you want to check it out....Does Scientology control our FDA??
http://www.fda.gov/cder/drug/advisory/SSRI200507.htm
FDA Public Health Advisory
Suicidality in Adults Being Treated with Antidepressant Medications
Several recent scientific publications suggest the possibility of an increased risk for suicidal behavior in adults who are being treated with antidepressant medications. Even before these reports became available, the FDA began a complete review of all available data to determine whether there is an increased risk of suicidality (suicidal thinking or behavior) in adults being treated with antidepressant medications. It is expected that this review will take a year or longer to complete."
And in response the number one expert, researcher, and writer on the topic of anti-depressants had this to say in response to this move by the FDA...
For additional information contact:
Ann Blake Tracy, Ph.D.,
Executive Director, International Coalition For Drug Awareness
Website: www.drugawareness.org
Author: Prozac: Panacea or Pandora? - Our Serotonin Nightmare
& CD or audio tape on safe withdrawal: "Help! I Can't Get
Off My Antidepressant!"
Order Number: 800-280-0730
Office Number: 801-282-5282
Cell Number: 801-209-1800
E-mail: atracyphd1@aol.com
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THE INTERNATIONAL COALITION FOR DRUG AWARENESS
www.drugawarness.org
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
DOES FDA ADVISORY WARNING ON
ANTIDEPRESSANTS GO FAR ENOUGH?
Friday, July 1, 2005, the FDA issued strong warnings about the dangers of
antidepressants and increased risk of suicide. But we need to ask if their
warning has gone quite far enough and how many have needlessly lost their lives to
these drug in the interim due to the lack of any warning?
By way of introduction I am Ann Blake Tracy, PhD, Executive Director of the
International Coalition for Drug Awareness. I am the author of Prozac: Panacea
or Pandora? - Our Serotonin Nightmare. The last 15 years of my life have been
devoted full time to researching and writing about SSRI antidepressants. For
13 1/2 years I have testified and consulted as an expert witness in cases
involving antidepressants. Some of the more high profile cases being: comedian
Phil Hartman's murder/suicide, Columbine, Red Lake and other school shootings,
the Atlanta Day Trader shooting and many other workplace violence incidents in
which antidepressants were involved. In September of 1991 and again in February
and September of 2004 I testified before the FDA Advisory Committee on this
issue.
The simple fact is that when LSD goes into the brain it mimics the
neurotransmitter, serotonin. Antidepressants work by impairing one's ability to
metabolize serotonin so that over time the level of serotonin begins to rise. So why
are we surprised when we see those on antidepressants doing things we would
expect to see from someone on LSD?
For many decades now medical research has shown that impairing serotonin
metabolism will produce migraines, hot flashes, pains around the heart, difficulty
breathing, a worsening of bronchial complaints, tension and anxiety which
appear from out of nowhere, depression, suicide - especially very violent
suicide, hostility, violent crime, arson, substance abuse, psychosis, mania, organic
brain disease, autism, anorexia, reckless driving, Alzheimer’s, impulsive
behavior with no concern for punishment, and argumentative behavior.
How anyone ever thought it would be "therapeutic" to chemically induce these
reactions is beyond me. Yet, these reactions are exactly what we have
witnessed in our society over the past two decades as a result of the widespread use
of these drugs. Why does the FDA expect us to wait until "more definitive
information" than what we already have "becomes available?"
Can you remember when over two decades ago depressed people used to slip away
quietly to kill themselves rather than killing everyone around them and then
themselves as they do while taking SSRI antidepressants?
A study out of the University of Southern California in 1996 looked at a
group of mutant mice in an experiment that had gone terribly wrong. These
genetically engineered mice were the most violent creatures they had ever witnessed.
They were born lacking the MAO-A enzyme which metabolizes serotonin. As a
result their brains were awash in serotonin. This excess serotonin is what the
researchers determined was the cause for this extreme violence. Antidepressants
produce the same end result as they inhibit the metabolism of serotonin.
These are extremely dangerous drugs that should be banned as similar drugs
have been banned in the past. They should be placed in the same classification
as PCP, a dissociative anesthetic.
As a society we once thought LSD and PCP to be miracle medications with large
margins of safety in humans. We have never seen drugs so similar to LSD and
PCP as these SSRI antidepressants. All of these drugs produce dreaming during
periods of wakefulness. It is believed that the high serotonin levels over
stimulate the brain stem leading to a lack of muscle paralysis during the sleep
state thus allowing the patient to act out the dreams or nightmares they are
having. The world witnessed that clearly in the Zoloft-induced murder-suicide of
comedian Phil Hartman and his wife, Brynn. (And for those who may not be
aware, the wrongful death suit for their parents was settled by Pfizer on behalf of
Sean and Birgen Hartman.)
Connecticut witnessed the Prozac-induced case of Kelly Silk several years
ago. This young mother attacked her family with a knife, then set the house on
fire killing all but her 8 year old daughter who ran to the neighbors. As she
stood bleeding and screaming for help she explained, "Help! My mommy is having a
nightmare!"
Out of the mouths of babes we will understand these nightmares for what they
are. She understood that this was something her mother would do ONLY in a
nightmare, never in reality.
This is known as a REM Sleep Behavior Disorder. In the past it was known
mainly as a drug withdrawal state, but the largest sleep facility in the country
has reported that 86% of the cases they are diagnosing are patients currently
taking antidepressants.
Because this was known in the past as a condition manifesting mainly in drug
withdrawal you can see how dangerous the withdrawal state from these drugs
will prove to be. That is why it is so critical to make sure patients are weaned
EXTREMELY slowly so as to avoid ANY chance of going into a withdrawal state.
For additional information go to www.drugawareness.org where you can find a
wealth of information.
End . . .
Find below, for your information, the FDA testimony of Mark Taylor, the first
boy shot at Columbine, given in September, 2004.
_________________
Mark Taylor's September 13, 2004 to the FDA (first boy shot at Columbine High
School)
I am Mark Allen Taylor and I am a victim of the SSRI antidepressant era. I
took six to thirteen bullets in the heart area in the Columbine High School
shooting when Eric Harris on Luvox opened fire that now infamous day.
They almost had to amputate my leg and my arm. My heart missed by only one
millimeter. I had three surgeries. Five years later I am still recuperating.
I went through all this to realize that SSRI antidepressants are dangerous
for those who take them and for all those who associate with those who take
them.
I hope that my testimony today shows you that you need to take action
immediately before more innocent people like me, and you, do not get hurt or die
horrible deaths as a result.
As Americans we should have the right to feel safe and if you were doing your
job we would be safe. Why are we worrying about terrorists in other countries
when the pharmaceutical companies have proven to be our biggest terrorists by
releasing these drugs on an unsuspecting public?
How are we supposed to feel safe at school, at home, on the street, at church
or anywhere else if we cannot trust the FDA to do what we are paying you to
do? Where were you when I and all of my classmates got shot at Columbine?
You say that antidepressants are effective. So why did they not help Eric
Harris before he shot me?
According to Eric they "helped" him to feel homicidal and suicidal after only
six weeks on Zoloft. And then he said that dropping off Luvox cold turkey
would help him "fuel the rage" he needed to shoot everyone. But he continued on
Luvox and shot us all anyway.
So, why did these so called antidepressants not make him better? I will tell
you why. It is because they do not work.
We should consider antidepressants to be accomplices to murder."
Are you in to Scientology?
You should alert your husband to this thread.
My advise to your husband, stop her MLM scheme immediately, stop all contact with her upline and downline, give up the commissions & liquidate the inventory at any price immediately, and remove her from her current situation, going so far as to find a deprogramming psychiatrist and start a regular outpatient counseling regiment.
Good luck, and do what needs to be done for your family.