International Coalition for Drug Awareness
Educating about the dangers of Antidepressant Medications
At times I get so busy with all of these cases that I forget that not all of you are aware of what is happening. I must apologize for not sending this out sooner. This is a case that has been filed against the makers of Fen-Phen in a murder/suicide situation – another caring mother…
http://search.boston.com/globe.vts A BOSTON GLOBE EDITORIAL The Prozac Question Eli Lilly, manufacturer of the highly successful antidepressant drug Prozac, wants to have it both ways. While it has always insisted that the drug does not cause even a tiny percentage of its users to contemplate suicide, it also wants to sell an updated version of Prozac…
http://199.97.97.16/contWriter/yhd7/2000/06/08/medic/8169-0102-pat_nytimes.h tml Eli Lilly Sued By Family Of Prozac User Who Killed Wife, Self Mitchell Zuckoff c.2000 The Boston Globe Opening a new front in the battle over Prozac and suicide, the family of a man who killed his wife then himself while taking the drug are accusing Eli Lilly and Co. of fraud for…
June 8, 2000 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Baum, Hedlund, Aristei, Guilford & Downey 12100 Wilshire Blvd., Ste. 950 Los Angeles, CA 90025 Contact: Robin McCall bhagd@… Day: (800) 827-0087 or (310) 207-3233 Night: (818) 558-5964 www.bhagd.com/media/prozacinformation.html PROZAC MAKER, ELI LILLY AND COMPANY, COMMITTED FRAUD ON HAWAII COURT BY CONCEALING CRUCIAL EVIDENCE AT TRIAL, FAMILY IN NEWLY…
Use of Sertraline Linked to Suicidality LONDON, May 30 (Reuters Health) – The use of sertraline might prompt some patients to commit suicide, a UK researcher warns based on a study of healthy volunteers. In a double-blind, randomized crossover study, Dr. David Healy of the University of Wales College of Medicine compared the effects of…
It is my opinion that one of the most frightening and dangerous practices in American medicine today is this direct to consumer advertising. Advertising of tobacco products has been banned, yet they are allowed to advertise prescription drugs? Where is the logic? Clearly many who have had their lives destroyed by the SSRIs would not…
You’ll find this story on the wire today, or at http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/living/DailyNews/drugs_m edia0601.html Misleading Drug Coverage Study Finds Failure to Disclose Important Information in Media By Katharine Webster The Associated Press June 1 — A study of how the mass media covers health found that many news stories on drugs fail to report side effects or…
Here are another couple of articles on the close ties between the drug industry and medicine have become even closer. From these articles we learn what has gone wrong with the clinical trials that we thought were protecting us from big profit motives. The overall general attitude now seems to be: “Approve all drugs in…
This chat is on tonight on the following ABC news site. http://chat.abcnews.go.com/cgi/chat/chat.dll?room=glenmullen Join Dr. Joseph Glenmullen, clinical instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and author of Prozac Backlash: Overcoming the Dangers of Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, and Other Antidepressants with Safe, Effective Alternatives, for a chat about this withdrawal phenomenon at 6 p.m. ET. Dr….
This appears at http://abcnews.go.com/sections/living/DailyNews/antidepressant s0515.html —— Antidepressants-Suicide Link Harvard Psychiatrist: Studies Needed The Associated Press B O S T O N, May 15 — Dr. Jonathan O. Cole, a Harvard psychiatrist who has suggested a link between antidepressants like Prozac and suicide, says drug manufacturers and the federal government haven’t adequately investigated the problem. In…