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I wonder if Lilly sent this letter to the FDA in the US? They apparently have not yet heard that Lilly feels that Prozac is not recommended for children for ANY INDICATION. They are the ones who approved it for children in January of this year.
But we should not be too quick to judge, they may have research awaiting us at the Feb 2 hearings to show that there is something so unique about children who reside in the UK so that they cannot handle Prozac or the other SSRIs where American children can. You think? Remember with 50% of medical studies now being ghostwritten by drug companies anything is possible.
And now after all these years of hearing how beneficial Prozac and its clones are for PMMD we learn that it does not exist?!
But what about that poor woman on my television set who could not get her grocery cart out and completely “lost it” in the middle of the store? What will she do now? If not PMMD, what “disorder” was she suffering from and what will we treat her with now?
But once again this is only the dilemma facing women in the UK. American women still have the antidepressant treatment available to them for this non-existant disorder. Once again proving that Americans are what? from another planet?
Dr. Ann Blake Tracy,
Executive Director, International Coalition For Drug Awareness
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The Alliance for Human Research Protection has obtained copies of two Eli Lilly documents that were sent to all physicians in the UK the end of last week.
A letter informs doctors in the UK that Prozac is no longer authorized for use in (so-called) premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD). And Eli Lilly’s new Prozac Fact Sheet sent to UK physicians—but not to US physicians—states that Prozac is NOT RECOMMENDED FOR CHILDREN for any indication.
Reasons given for withdrawal of PMDD indication: “PMDD is not a well-established disease entity across Europe. It is not listed in the International Classification of Diseases.”
This demonstrates the cynicism of drug company giants: Eli Lilly’s marketing invention primarily hurt American women— who were deliberately deluded into believing they suffered from a psychiatric “disease” where none exists.
FDA officials bear a major responsibility for having allowed drug companies to invent diseases—such as PMDD, “social anxiety disorder,” ADHD, “oppositional defiance disorder”—all created in order to expand the market for antidepressant drugs, such as Prozac. American doctors have been participants in this fraudulent marketing scheme.
For image of a Eli Lilly letter which informs doctors in the UK that Prozac is no longer authorized for use in (so-called) premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD): http://www.ahrp.org/risks/LillyPMDD1203.html
Eli Lilly’s new Prozac Fact Sheet (See Link for Image) sent to UK physicians—but not to US physicians—states that Prozac is NOT RECOMMENDED FOR CHILDREN for ANY INDICATION. For a larger view, please click on the image. http://www.ahrp.org/risks/ProzacKids1203.html
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