Posted on 09/18/2013 6:03:26 PM PDT by Captain7seas
[drugawareness] TRAZADONE: 13 Dead in Washington DC Naval Yard Shooting FROM Dr. Ann Blake Tracy TO 1 recipient Show Details
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TRAZADONE: 13 Dead in Washington DC Naval Yard Shooting
The New York Times released the fact that over the past month Aaron Alexis has been on the antidepressant, Trazadone, to treat insomnia. ( quotes below.) Of course I am not finished asking questions. I want to know what he was on before this that may have induced his serious problems with insomnia. Was that yet another antidepressant? Was he in withdrawal from an antidepressant before the Trazadone which causes terrible insomnia? How many times had he been on and off an antidepressant? Considering the way the military hands them out like candy and stops them abruptly ... the options are endless. Considering also that he had plenty of the drug he could have attempted to overdose the night before in an impulsive suicide attempt. That can also be the case when it turns into a shooting like this because the brain toxicity seems to hit before the toxicity that would bring death.
"On Aug. 23, Mr. Alexis went to Veterans Affairs hospitals in Providence, where he had been working as a contractor, complaining of insomnia but did not say that he was hearing voices, according to a federal official. Mr. Alexis said he could not sleep for more than a few hours. Doctors there prescribed...(Click link below to continue reading)
http://www.drugawareness.org/antidepressant-evidence-13-dead-in-washington-dc-naval-yard-shooting/
Ann Blake Tracy, Executive Director, International Coalition for Drug Awareness www.drugawareness.org & http://ssristories. drugawareness.org Author: *"Prozac: Panacea or Pandora? - Our Serotonin Nightmare - The Complete Truth of the Full Impact of Antidepressants Upon Us & Our World" & Withdrawal CD "Help! I Can't Get Off My Antidepressant!"
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It’s pretty interesting that a drug that has “insomnia” listed as a side effect is prescribed as a sleep aid.
And she can't spell trazodone correctly.
Read any drug monograph and you’ll scare yourself silly. Most are infrequent to rare and also have causes other than the drug in question, typically something else going on or a pre-existing condition, but during testing it is reported so it goes on the drug profile. Practitioners prescribe Tranzadone when they want to take a very conservative approach. This guy was likely suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and they should have brought the chemical hammer down on him, not this.
You've got to be careful with inferences from that.
The individuals were put on psychoactive drugs because there was something wrong with them in the first place. They weren't "OK" to begin with.
True, the drugs can make things better or worse.
Whoops — you’re right - has an “o” in the middle.
Trazadone isn’t exactly an SSRI. It works at 5HT receptors, true but depending on the receptor it either works as an agonist or antagonist.
Not yet!
j/k
Pretty much all the ADs can be like that (except for mirtazapine -- acts like an antihistamine). Opposite effects on different people or even on the same person at different times.
Same with gain/lose weight.
Gotta cover all the bases, in case someone can’t sleep and wants to sue. “May Cause Drowsiness” has a companion auxilliary label that reads “Or It May Not”, but there’s only so much room on one little 13dr vial:)
Trazodone is not an SSRI. It is a much older class of medication called a tca (tricyclic antidepressant) These are not used as antidepressants any longer, but are the favored non addictive sleeping medication.
Sometimes people are just crazy. They were crazy before taking meds and meds are not responsible for their actions.
For heaven’s sake, leave my small Trazadone sleeping pill alone. If I didn’t take that, I would never go into deep sleep and that’s been proved. It doesn’t take much for me but I don’t get deep sleep without it. It was my pain specialist who put me on that.
I think what happens is, GP doctors who don’t know what they are doing, just hand out pills right and left for no particular reason.
I was surprised to see this article with “Trazadone” as a “bad” drug - my little pill. Maybe they are giving huge doses of it. It isn’t a controlled drug as I don’t have to show ID to get it refilled.
my wife has used it for a long time for sleep problems knocks her out for 6-7 hrs every night
Some months back a freeper put out the list - all the killers - all the 'meds' they used... there's a connection.
Not a tricyclic.
don’t forget about the evil.....
ok. I havent looked it up in a while, hardly even use it. Still not an SSRI and the rest of my statement stands.
There were plenty of mass murders prior to these drugs. Not long ago I was reading about one really heinous episode in the 20s.
I guess you think that if the drugs were no longer prescribed the mass murders would stop. Guess again.
Yeah, it’s hardly even worth knowing about except to try as a hypnotic.
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