International Coalition for Drug Awareness
A Group of physicians, researchers, Journalists and concerned citizens dedicated to educating about the dangers posed by many Rx medicines.
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…
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 https://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…