Posted on 01/12/2013 9:34:04 AM PST by JohnPDuncan
Since I first began working as a medical expert in product liability cases way back in the early 1990s, I’ve spent innumerable hours culling the sealed data contained within the files of companies like GlaxoSmithKline and Eli Lilly. Among other things, I long ago found evidence that Paxil and Prozac cause suicidality in adults. These discoveries then led to settlements in product liability suits brought against the two companies brought by surviving family members. I’ve also communicated my conclusions in books like Talking Back to Prozac and the Antidepressant Fact Book and in scientific articles but the primary data until recently remained sealed.
Drug-company-groomed data creates the biggest loophole in the FDA’s evaluations of drug safety. In May 2006 GSK published a 'Dear Healthcare Provider' letter admitting that Paxil causes suicidality in depressed adults, but even that data was diluted before it was processed. The real picture is even worse.
Paxil Suicide Data Sealed in Company Files
I recently published analyses of previously sealed GSK data on Paxil suicide in the journal Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry. I combed the data out of GSK files during a several-day investigation of the company’s Paxil records. My original medical/legal report recently became unsealed and provided the basis for the published reports.
The first report shows how GSK omitted some suicides and suicide attempts from their tables and from the data sent to the FDA.[ii] The second shows how the company hid data on Paxil-induced akathisia (psychomotor restlessness) and its relationship to suicidality.[iii] The third shows how the company hid the basic concept of activation or stimulation that recently became a central part of the newly mandated antidepressant labels.[iv]
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I have heard this for years. So why is it sold?
Because non toxic house plants are illegal.
The rifle maker who listed all of the murderers that used prescription drugs died in a car crash a few days ago...things are getting weird.
Before I’ll listen to one word this guy says, I want to know if he is at all connected to Scientology.
Chewing on the poinsettias again?
No. Really, I was given a drug for my peripheral neuropathy that is also used for bi polar conditions etc. I did not ask my doctor if in should quit it, within 1 week it went into the trash. Nasty crud.
Chewing on the poinsettias again?
No. Really, I was given a drug for my peripheral neuropathy that is also used for bi polar conditions etc. I did not ask my doctor if in should quit it, within 1 week it went into the trash. Nasty crud.
Oh Nos!!!
I have heard stories that people who get started on medications for hypertension and high cholesterol die of heart attacks!1!1!
Ne’r mind the Whopper, super-sized fries, and XL Coke in the corner....
It’s always nice to know that depression now has no link to suicide. Very little reporting effort seems to have been spent on learning whether or not victims of suicide, who were putatively on antidepressants, had actually been taking the medication up to the day of their suicide, or had discontinued them well in advance.
It’s so much easier to draw the obvious link, antidepressants, than actually work. Much the same as the war against SUV’s, which have been repeatedly accused of killing people, as though nobody actually sat behind the whee.
Who was that?
What the pharmaceutical companies and physicians won’t tell you is that there is no difference between homocidal and suicidal thoughts. They only mention suicidal thoughts to protect themselves from lawsuits from those who use such medications.
The medical profession now is addicted to giving pills for problems that would not exist in a society where there are close family ties, where friends can be relied on and everyone is expected to pitch in, roll up their sleeves and do something constructive.
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Secrecy was required, but people talk...
Antidepressants in the main work fine, as you suspect the problems arise when you stop taking them abruptly. Quitting an antidepressant "cold turkey" is a very dangerous thing to do and almost certainly is going to do one of two things: One, it may scare you enough to go back on your meds where things soon stabilize. Or two it may push you over the edge, into a psychotic break. In order to successfully come off antidepressants, it is necessary to slowly lower the dosage over a long (months) period of time. It is also a good idea to be monitored by a doctor while this is going on. The "detox" for antidepressants is far longer than for any "recreational" drug that I know of and once it is clear of your system you are still the "wounded bird" you started out as. Psychotherapy in a bottle doesn't cure the underling causes of your problems, it merely masks them. I suspect these effects are stronger when children are so medicated, with adults it's bad enough.
If Biden is sincerely looking for an answer to random school shootings, he should take a very close look at the prevalent use of psycochemicals to control the behavior of school children.
Regards,
GtG
Several judges have questioned Breggin’s credibility as an expert witness. For example, a Maryland judge in a medical malpractice case in 1995 said, “I believe that his bias in this case is blinding... he was mistaken in a lot of the factual basis for which he expressed his opinion.”
In that same year a Virginia judge excluded Breggin’s testimony stating, “This court finds that the evidence of Peter Breggin, as a purported expert, fails nearly all particulars under the standard set forth in Daubert and its progeny.... Simply put, the Court believes that Dr. Breggin’s opinions do not rise to the level of an opinion based on ‘good science.’”
Should we take them off the market? No! But doctors need to educate themselves and patient and families to possible pyschotic in nature adverse reactions they can bring.
It’s not just anti-depressants. After a grand mal seizure, my 10 year old daughter was put on Keppra, an ant-seizure medication. Her neurologist told us that it had minor side-effects.
Wrong! She started having terrible rages! They were very, very scary! I finally went online and found out that they are one of the common side-effects of Keppra.
The rages stopped when she got off of it, and put on Lamictal. (She is 16 now, and a very sweet, kind girl.)
Some people do wonderful on Keppra, so I’m not against it. However patients and caregivers should be given warnings and training for how to deal with the situation. Also, the should maybe have more check ups.
I shudder to think what would have happened if my daughter was older when she started this medication. Also, what happens when an adult starts this type of medication. I don’t think they should be living by themselves. I also don’t think they should have access to guns. Knives are kind of scary also.
Have you know who read this article!!!
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