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Trazadone: 13 dead in Washington Navel Yard Shooting
Drugawareness.org ^ | 09/18/2013 | Dr. Ann Blake Tracy

Posted on 09/18/2013 6:03:26 PM PDT by Captain7seas

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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!"

(Excerpt) Read more at drugawareness.org ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aaronalexis; annblaketracy; antidepressants; deathtoll; navyyard; psychiatry; shootings; trazadone
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To: Captain7seas

Drugs plus, as the Wall Street Journal reported, “hardcore alcohol use.”

Chemicals pile up in the brain and they’re so common and ordinary and widely used that nobody bothers to add or subtract to estimate the overall effect.

Here’s one overall effect.


41 posted on 09/18/2013 6:53:00 PM PDT by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: 1035rep

as compared to Ambien which I take about 3x a week, Trazadone is supposed to be non addicting and a better drug for sleep....


42 posted on 09/18/2013 6:53:12 PM PDT by cherry
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To: Captain7seas

I have been on that drug for years due to fibromyalgia and costochondritis. A few years ago I quit taking it cold turkey. The only effect that had was that I wanted to cry all the time. When I told a friend who was a psychologist, he let me know very quickly that was a very bad idea. I am the odd one though. I never get the common side effects, it is the one that bothers less than 5%.


43 posted on 09/18/2013 6:53:29 PM PDT by MamaB
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To: Captain7seas

Nope we just need more gun control according the liberals. The fact that years ago when most people had firearms and seriously mentally ill people were locked up shootings like this did not occur but rarely. Now that we regulate firearms and allow seriously ill people to determine their own freedom/treatment we frequently have mass shootings. (I acknowledge conditions mental patients were kept in were deplorable and if done again things would have to be different)


44 posted on 09/18/2013 6:54:49 PM PDT by Tammy8 ( ~Secure the border and deport all illegals- do it now! ~ Support our Troops!~)
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To: steve86

Newer studies are showing these little ‘money makers’ aren’t very effective at treating depression either.

“We don’t know enough to be mucking with brain chemistry...” quoting an old professor of mine...


45 posted on 09/18/2013 6:54:53 PM PDT by GOPJ ( Politicians who fear the people seek to disarm them. - - Bill St. Clair)
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To: cherry

Yeah evil was definitely in the mix, it surrounded him, but Trazodone, not so much.


46 posted on 09/18/2013 6:54:59 PM PDT by Dysart (Being nuts has its advantages...and the machete doesn't hurt, either.)
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To: steve86

Tell me about the mass murderer - ONE person gunning down a bunch of innocents... A name?


47 posted on 09/18/2013 6:57:02 PM PDT by GOPJ ( Politicians who fear the people seek to disarm them. - - Bill St. Clair)
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To: Captain7seas

I have been on the drug for years and I have had none of those. It could be the type of personality a person has. I am very easy going.


48 posted on 09/18/2013 6:57:19 PM PDT by MamaB
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To: steve86

Tell me about the mass murderer - ONE person gunning down a bunch of innocents... A name?

Murder has been with us since Cain and Able... that’s not what I’m talking about...


49 posted on 09/18/2013 6:57:40 PM PDT by GOPJ ( Politicians who fear the people seek to disarm them. - - Bill St. Clair)
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To: peeps36
I couldn't tell you if they worked because I was too afraid to take them.

I know the feeling and, in fact, am going through the exact same thing myself. I am down to the last class of drugs for a particular condition (the others having pooped out) and the drugs in this class have the worst and most common side effects (especially discontinuation-related). So on alternate days I either am or am not going to start the new drug. But I really need to -- the drug is treating a real condition that is screwing up my life.

50 posted on 09/18/2013 6:59:12 PM PDT by steve86 (Some things aren't really true but you wouldn't be half surprised if they were.)
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To: steve86

Honestly, if you put ten normal health care peeps in a room, at least seven would call it a tri-cyclic. It all goes in the “makes you tired, not a controlled substance, at least its on the $4 list” category. That’s about as involved as anyone gets with trazodone.


51 posted on 09/18/2013 6:59:36 PM PDT by ToastedHead
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To: steve86

All kinds of misinformation on this thread!


52 posted on 09/18/2013 6:59:58 PM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." -- M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: FoxInSocks

“I read it on the Internet, so it must be true!”


53 posted on 09/18/2013 7:00:33 PM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." -- M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: Captain7seas; a fool in paradise

Big Pharma’s Fault.
Big Pharma contributed to Bush’s campaign?
Conclusion:
BUSH’S FAULT!


54 posted on 09/18/2013 7:03:47 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Captain7seas

Trazadone is not an SSRI, it is a very old tetracyclic antidepressant. Frequently used for sleep. I have taken it and didn’t feel the need to do violence nor did evil thoughts creep into my brain.


55 posted on 09/18/2013 7:06:11 PM PDT by seeker41 (take your country back by whatever means necessary)
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To: cherry

It’s much better for me. I’ve always had sleep problems like night terrors and sleepwalking and the Trazodone does the trick. Now my husband can get some sleep too.


56 posted on 09/18/2013 7:06:12 PM PDT by 1035rep
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To: GOPJ
Newer studies are showing these little ‘money makers’ aren’t very effective at treating depression either.

I don't know about that. None are efficacious say like opiates for pain, but...they often do help. This is a presentation I bookmarked last night:

Look at the duloxetine efficacy chart vs. placebo

February, 2013 article

Venlafaxine and Duloxetine: A Comparison of Efficacy and Tolerability for the. Treatment of Depression in Elderly Patients. Jonathan Potter, MS, PharmD ...

http://www.nova.edu/gec/igs14/forms/presentations/venlafaxine-and-duloxetine-comparison.pdf

57 posted on 09/18/2013 7:08:07 PM PDT by steve86 (Some things aren't really true but you wouldn't be half surprised if they were.)
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To: Captain7seas

so many of the other mass shooters have been those who HAD BEEN taking anti depressants.....

Starting with the columbine punks

I remember hearing the author going into detail about this an a radio program several years ago.


58 posted on 09/18/2013 7:08:46 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( Un-Documented Journalist / Block Captain..Tyranny Response Team)
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To: seeker41
it is a very old tetracyclic antidepressant.

Lord have mercy.

59 posted on 09/18/2013 7:10:33 PM PDT by steve86 (Some things aren't really true but you wouldn't be half surprised if they were.)
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To: Captain7seas

Washington NAVEL yard?

Didn’t know that DC had a bellybutton.


60 posted on 09/18/2013 7:12:48 PM PDT by 353FMG ( I refuse to say whether I am serious or sarcastic -- I respect FReepers too much.)
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