International Coalition for Drug Awareness
Educating about the dangers of Antidepressant Medications
11/5/2002 • Adolescent Drug Use Creates Long-Term Imbalance Even commonly prescribed amphetamines may lead to addictive behavior. By Ross Grant Health ScoutNews Reporter Thomas Jefferson University Philadelphia Here is more evidence that there is significant brain alteration within brain cells in response to synthetic chemicals that change brain function in many unknown ways. Could these…
Holcombe and Gollin vs. GlaxoSmithKline 2 Wisconsin women sue anti-depressant maker By TOM HELD theld@journalsentinel.co Journal Sentinel Suits here and elsewhere claim Paxil addictive, consumers not warned. Holcombe and Gollin vs. GlaxoSmithKline 11/3/2002 2 Wisconsin women sue anti-depressant maker http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/nov02/93028.asp By TOM HELD theld@journalsentinel.co Journal Sentinel Two Wisconsin women have filed a class-action lawsuit against…
10/31/2002 • Ethyl-Eicosapentaenoate Could Be Effective In Persistent Depression By Elda Hauschildt Archives of General Psychiatry, 2002; 59: 913-919 Ethyl-eicosapentaenoate at a dose of 1 gram per day could be effective in treating depression in patients with persistent illness after standard antidepressant therapy. Ethyl-Eicosapentaenoate Could Be Effective In Persistent Depression http://www.docguide.com/news/content.nsf/news/8525697700573E1885256C5B005A901A By Elda Hauschildt Archives…
10/13/2002 The Secrets of Seroxat (Paxil) Seroxat (Paxil) is one of the world’s biggest selling and most successful anti-depressants. But this Panorama investigation from the BBC discovers the drug may have a darker side–the program reports that people can get hooked on it, suffering serious withdrawal symptoms when they try to come off it. For…
Mass. group sues Paxil drugmaker By Ellen Barry Globe Staff A group of Massachusetts plaintiffs filed a class-action suit earlier this month against the maker of the blockbuster antidepressant Paxil, alleging that withdrawal from the drug brought on such ill effects as nausea, sweating, agitation, tremors, insomnia, dizziness, and the sensation of electric ”zaps” in…
Baum, Hedlund, Aristei, Guilford & Schiavo vs. Glaxo Smithkline Corporation Judge: Paxil ads can’t say it isn’t habit-forming LOS ANGELES (AP) A federal judge ordered the maker of the popular anti-depressant Paxil to stop all television commercials nationwide that say the drug is not habit-forming. Baum, Hedlund, Aristei, Guilford & Schiavo vs. Glaxo Smithkline Corporation…
Donald Schell vs. SmithKline Beecham Glaxo Raises White Flag, Settles Paxil Trial Appeal, and Pays Up Rick Giombetti In a bombshell comparable to the recent belated revelation of the disaster that hormone replacement therapy has been, I have learned that Paxil manufacturer Glaxo-Smith-Kline (GSK) has secretly settled its appeal of the ruling in the Paxil…
Lilly faces another Prozac lawsuit
Tennessee widow says husband hanged himself 13 days after drug was prescribed.
Mind Games 5/28/2002The BBC has released an explosive program about the suicidal aspects of SSRI medications, featuring Dr. David Healy (SSRI Expert) and Andy Vickery (Attorney) and touching on several key SSRI litigations: Matt Miller’s case, the Forsyth case, the Reginold Payne case in the UK, the Joseph Wesbecker case and the David Hawkins case…
Healy vs. University of Toronto Scientist stands by views of drugs after settling lawsuit with U of T A prominent British psychiatrist who found his offer of a post at a University of Toronto teaching hospital rescinded after he criticized a popular form of antidepressants says he stands by his controversial view of the drugs…