DrugAwareness.org Newsletters – Page 2 – International Coalition for Drug Awareness

5/01/2001 – World Health Organization – SSRI Addiction

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Yesterday, in several major newspapers Lilly placed full page ads offering a
coupon for a month of free Prozac. Do you think they warned the consumer in
those ads that these free pills were addictive? Because so few doctors are
aware of this withdrawal and do not know how to withdraw patients from SSRIs,
after the month on the “free” pills the patient would have to continue to
purchase the drug until they could find my tape on how to get off Prozac
safely.

4/30/2001 – Brain Death in Carbon Dioxide Treatment for Depression

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ANYONE should know that depriving the brain of oxygen kills brain cells. So,
why would one think, especially one who calls himself a doctor, that would be
beneficial to someone suffering emotional trauma of any kind to give them
carbon dioxide? Will we hear next that they will be holding patient’s heads
under water for 10 minutes to see of what benefit it might be?

4/29/2001 – Another antidepressant-induced school shooting

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MATTAWA, Wash. (AP) – Apple orchards are blossoming just down the road. But
there is one student in Michelle Hansen’s honors English class who is not
there to see it.

Cory Baadsgaard is, instead, in the county jail, writing letters of apology
to classmates he has known since kindergarten – the same ones he forced into
a classroom corner using a loaded big-game hunting rifle and swear words many
had never heard him use before.

4/29/2001 – NY-CITY AGENCY'S PSYCH DRUGS IMPERIL FOSTER KIDS

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Excerpts from the Denver Rocky Mountain News:

* When the local social services workers contacted her with information
about Candace, she was told the girl had a “strong temperment,” that she was
prone to uncontrollable outbursts. Candace had been through six foster homes
by the time she was five, and her birth family had neglected her, Newmaker
was told.

4/29/2001 – Infants at [greater] risk from hospital drug errors

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David U, president of the Institute for Safe Medication Practices, Canada,
says most mistakes in medication stem from “system error.”

Cathy Landry hovered over her son’s hospital bed, trying to comfort him as he
recovered from minor foot surgery. She picked him up, held him, put him down
again. “Please fall asleep,” she whispered to her second-born. “Mommy’s
tired.”

4/28/2001 – A Prescription for Violence? (School Shootings)

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Ronald Stephens, executive director of the National School Safety
Center says: Its the thought that if youre going to put Charlie Manson in my
class I have a right to know that. . . We have kids so medicated its
incredible. I dont see parents asking the question about the numbers of
children on psychotropic drugs as being all that invasive. The public would
be shocked at the number of file drawers of prescription drugs that teachers
are asked to dispense. . . . it would be a great study for someone to go back
and see how many of the kids who committed these violent acts were on these
drugs.

6/26/2001 – Part 1 – Creating an Epidemic of Columbine Shooters!!!

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This week I was interviewed on CNN about new “research” on treating anxiety in children with the SSRI, Luvox. [I will first send you research out of Australia about anxiety and serotonin levels along with an e-mail that just came in from a mother whose son had his life ruined by Luvox and then I…

4/26/2001 – Part 2 – Luvox study on anxiety

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The study of 128 children ages 6 to 17 found that the drug Luvox, widely
prescribed for adults with depression, alleviated the debilitating symptoms
of social phobia, separation anxiety and generalized anxiety — psychiatric
illnesses that afflict as many as 1 in 10 U.S. children.

4/23/2001 – Matt Miller's Zoloft tragedy featured in UK article

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The boy’s teachers recommended that he see a psychiatrist, who prescribed
Zoloft, an antidepressant in the same chemical family as Prozac.
The doctor said it would help Matt’s mood, make him feel better about
himself. The boy started taking the pills and seemed to be in good spirits
for a few days.

4/19/2001 – Ann Blake-Tracy on the air with Columbine victims

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would like a show in your area contact your local station and tell them to
log on to www.drugawareness.org and let us know when they would like us on
the air.