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.
Understanding Antidepressant-Induced Psychosis And Everything Else They Cause I have been going back through my book Prozac: Panacea OR Pandora? – Our Serotonin Nightmare! (Keep in mind that the only reason Prozac is the only antidepressant mentioned in the title is because it is the mother drug to all of the other SSRI and SNRI clones…
ANESTHESIA AS AN ANTIDEPRESSANT??? The latest research is coming to us out of the University of Utah. In the early 90’s I wrote to the Governor of Utah and told him that drug companies did not need laboratories because they had Utah! If there is anything they want to try out on willing guinea pigs…
The FDA Advisory Committee held an additional hearing on the safety of antidepressants for young adults ages 18 – 25 in December of 2006. Click here www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz0-XzEq3x8 to watch me give my testimony to them after which they expanded the Black Box Warning for increased suicidal ideation from those 18 and under to anyone under age 25.
For over 20 years now I have run non-stop in this battle. So I have not slowed down to look much at what is going on around me as far as who has come on board to help or how the battle is going, etc. Of course I have done a quick scan of the whole situation occasionally, but that has been about it. So, the other day in searching for something else I ran across the following statements about my book & was both pleasantly surprised & humbled by what is said here. I thought I would share this with you so that you know a little more about the book that I so often forget to even mention.
The brain chemical these drugs increase, serotonin, is the same brain chemical that LSD, PCP and other psychedelic drugs mimic in order to produce their hallucinogenic effects. And remember that psychedelic agents are “a class of compounds with no demonstrated therapeutic use, a history of extensive abuse, and the ability to provoke psychosis.
There is an alarming connection between alcoholism and the various prescription drugs that increase serotonin. The most popular of those drugs are: PROZAC, ZOLOFT, PAXIL, LUVOX, SERZONE, EFFEXOR, ANAFRANIL, and the new diet pills, FEN-PHEN and REDUX. For seven years numerous reports have been made by reformed alcoholics (some for 15 years and longer) who are being “driven” to alcohol again after being prescribed one of these drugs. And many other patients who had no previous history of alcoholism have continued to report an “overwhelming compulsion” to drink while using these drugs.
SSRI & SNRI BABIES The Next Generation Medical Guinea Pigs–Our Prozac, Zoloft and Paxil Babies by Ann Blake-Tracy, Executive Director, International Coalition for Drug Awareness (This article was originally written for and published in the Citizen’s section of the Salt Lake Tribune and the Deseret News.) On June 17, 1998, syndicated columnist Arianna Huffington published…
Note: Keep in mind that these drugs are all serotonergic agents and clones or “copy cat” drugs of Prozac – the first SSRI antidepressant introduced to the market in America. Basically what applies to one, applies to the others. For instance we have more data out on Prozac because it has been around longer, but as the mode of action is the same for all of these meds the effects will be the same for the other drugs on this list as it is for Prozac. If we are discussing one drug, similar effects would be expected from any other company’s version of the drug. In fact it would be more honest to give them the titles of Prozac #1, Prozac #2,Prozac #3, etc. rather than the brand names they have been given, from the second clone, Zoloft, to the latest Prozac clone, Celexa.