International Coalition for Drug Awareness
Educating about the dangers of Antidepressant Medications
The former US Surgeon General, Dr. C. Everett Koop has joined in the current concern over SSRI medications and suicide, and posts this on his site, drkoop.com. ————- Questions Persist Concerning Prozac’s Role in Suicide Risk May 11, 2000 Lee Hickling drkoop.com Health News The question of whether Prozac, the most-prescribed antidepressant, can make some…
Thanks to Steve Whiting for alerting us to the following warnings from the FDA. It is about time the gave us some warning about the terrible withdrawal associated with the SSRI and SNRI antidepressants. I have highlighted a few spots in this warning that I want you to take note of in particular. Knowing HOW…
This appears today on the ABC News website at http://abcnews.go.com/sections/living/DailyNews/ssri000524.html Falling Off Prozac Doctors and Patients Unaware of Withdrawal Side Effects By Robin Eisner N E W Y O R K, May 24 — Tara Calhoun wanted to kill herself. The then-48-year-old mother of two from Norman, Okla., had forgotten to take her small dose…
Salon Magazine has put several articles out this week on the SSRIs. The first article is about Dr. Joseph Glenmullen’s new book “Prozac Backlash.” Of course in their usual form Eli Lilly representatives and other critics have slammed it as misleading and lacking in scientific rigor. And now the author claims Eli Lilly reps are…
In case you missed this I wanted to send this out again. I feel it is very important to know. There are too many children on this type of medication and little knowledge of these serious side effects to this drug. How many children are ending up on antidepressants as a result of their acne…
I hope you have all had the chance to read “The Next Generation Medical Guinea Pigs–Our Prozac, Zoloft and Paxil Babies” (located near the bottom of the page at http://drugawareness.org/200000.html). I wrote this article for the two major Salt Lake newspapers and it was published the summer of 1998. It will give you the background…
The New England Journal of Medicine May 18, 2000 — Vol. 342, No. 20 Is Academic Medicine for Sale? by Marcia Angell, M.D., editor, In 1984 the Journal became the first of the major medical journals to require authors of original research articles to disclose any financial ties with companies that make products discussed in…
Another article from the Indianapolis Star on yet another case filed against Zoloft. Vickery goes after Pfizer and its antidepressant Zoloft Staff Report The Indianapolis Star Last updated 11:01 PM, EST, Sunday, April 23, 2000 Andy Vickery aims to go beyond Prozac. He’s sighted a new target: Pfizer Inc. and its Prozac-like antidepressant, Zoloft. Vickery…
Drug giant to face lawsuit over Ritalin The Express, May 16, 2000 FROM GRAEME BEATON IN WASHINGTON The first of what could become a barrage of lawsuits over Ritalin, the controversial medicine prescribed for hyper-active children, has been launched by American lawyers. The action seeks unspecified damages against Novartis, the £30billion Swiss pharmaceutical giant which…
This story ran on page A10 of the Boston Globe on 5/15/2000. © Copyright 2000 Globe Newspaper Company. A BOSTON GLOBE EDITORIAL Better drug reporting deal with a wide range of conditions, from depression to osteoporosis, doctors are reaching increasingly for their prescription pads. Patients who consume these drugs have faith that any side effects…