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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The only “efficacy” any of them have, in the big picture, is the shortening of life.
Show me a peer-reviewed study in humans that establishes any such thing.
What about the Easter Bunny? I hear he has “powers” that are just as effective.
The “peer” of a liar is another liar.
>> “ I hear he has “powers” that are just as effective” <<
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You “hear” that because your cranium is stuffed with prozac easter eggs.
1989 was the year Prozac was released and then big pharma push began.
That’s about the time I noticed we were becoming a pill oriented society. TV ads were pushing hard. Got a headache? Take a pill. Need more sleep? Take a pill. Don’t feel good for any reason? Take a pill. Any problem could be fixed with a pill. No longer did people have to deal with anything. Give the kid a pill and put him back on ignore.
And natural news is now banned from FR as a 911 truther nutcase site – Jim Robinson
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