International Coalition for Drug Awareness
Educating about the dangers of Antidepressant Medications
FYI–Tonight (Friday, 8/25/00) on ABC 20/20 at 10pm eastern time will be another show about the problems with SSRI medication. Please check your TV GUIDE for the time in your area. Mark H I G H L I G H T S Friday. Aug. 25 Dr. Nancy Snyderman examines the possible side effects when discontinuing…
Marcia Angell, former editor in chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, wrote in an editorial this spring titled “Is Academic Medicine For Sale?” This article seems to confirm these suspicions. Hearings are scheduled next Tuesday in Washington, D.C. on this issue. Mark ———- Questioning Research Hearings on Keeping Conflict of Interest Out of…
Thanks to George Ellis for bringing the following report on Ecstasy to our attention and for his voice of sanity in this insane serotonin drug situation. Be sure to note the comment “First patented under a differnet name as an appetite suppressant, ecstasy releases a neurotransmitter called serotonin, which heightens energy levels. The drugs short-term…
Jurgen and Brenda Viktor will be on the Queen Latifah Show on August 4, 2000. They will be interviewed about their son Jared’s tragic experience on Paxil, an account of which, written by his mother and posted on the www.drugawareness.org site, follows below. You will need to check your local TV guide to find times…
This article might explain why your doctor’s interest has shifted away from you as a patient. He may be looking at you with $$$$ signs stamped all over you as he envision another guenia pig for yet another clinical trial funded by a large drug company. Most of you are aware, or certainly should be…
Mr. Rick Ewing, a trial attorney for the firm of Vickery and Waldner, responds to the purported balance of opinions expressed in the New York Times article on Prozac and violence (Article #108 on our eGroups list). It is a wonderful analysis, and I hope you’ll read it. Mark ——- Ms. Goode’s article is a…
Once again we thank Vera Hassner Sharav, President, CIRCARE: Citizens for Responsible Care & Research, a Human Rights organization, for passing on this interesting commentary on Prozac’s name being changed to Sarafem for PMS. The dangers of interaction leading to serotonin syndrome – a life threatening complication of serotonergic medications – is most obvious in…
In case any of you missed this last fall when it broke in the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Wall Street Journal, here it is again so you have it for reference. Notice that this FDA official is also the doctor who is credited with starting the Fen-Phen craze with a medical study he published suggesting…
Seems like exercise works better than SSRI’s! What a surprise. After 16 weeks, patients who exercised showed statistically significant and comparable improvement relative to those who took Zoloft, or those who took the Zoloft and exercised. Be sure to look at the wide disparity in the percentage on drugs who relapse into depression after eight…
July 18, 2000 Once Again, Prozac Takes Center Stage, in Furor By ERICA GOODE —————————————————————————— — Naum Kazhdan/ The New York Times At least two recently published books say that Prozac and related antidepressants are often indiscriminately prescribed and pose the risk of serious side effects, but critics of those views call them alarmist and…