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.
Tributes have been pouring in for Sally Brampton – journalist, editor, author and mother who was the founding editor of ELLE magazine. She tragically died on Tuesday this week, after walking into the sea near her Sussex home. The following article is from the Telegraph in Australia which she wrote about her “depression” in 2003….
Grammy and Oscar winner, Prince, dead at 57 See the highlights in the article below…How many are aware that most pain killers are also serotonergic medications and interact with antidepressants which are also often given for pain thereby increasing serotonin to dangerously high levels? Although initial reports were that Prince had died of the flu,…
Brian Short and family Brian Short, a nurse with a large online website for nurses, killed his children while they slept and then his wife as she was awakened by the gunshots and began to call 911. He then went to their garage and shot himself. This is the high profile Minnesota murder/suicide case we…
Christopher Pittman, 12 I was absolutely shocked the other night when looking through all of the television specials we have posted on our website for the International Coalition for Drug Awareness www.drugawareness.org when I found that this special on 48 Hours on the case of 12 year old Christopher Pittman only had 46 views!!!! No…
Krissy With Her Favorite Aunt Arlene In Des Moines, Iowa in 1994 14 year old Krissy, on Prozac, hit her Aunt Arlene over the head with an iron skillet and stabbed her at least five times before realizing what she was doing. You often ask me how I can continue to document these cases. There…
This morning a gunman who was an ex-employee at WDBJ-TV7, in Roanoke, Va came in shooting and video taping the killing while the news was ongoing. He had sent a 23 page fax to the station. After he recorded the shooting he then posted it on Facebook before he headed out in his car and…
Today is the One Year Anniversary of Robin Williams’ Death According to Newsweek the death of Robin Williams caused an unpresidented mark on suicide hotline which suicide prevention experts are still trying to make sense of. “The impact has continued into this calendar year. In 2015, visits to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s web
This case today in Phoenix (see video of news report below) is a de-ja-vu scenario of the 1991 Kevin Kohlenberg case from my book Prozac: Panacea or Pandora? Our Serotonin Nightmare! Like Kevin, after killing his German girlfriend in France, he spent hours butchering himself. (We know that because he recorded it all.) He too…
THE FULLY UNINFORMED JURY IN JAMES HOLMES CASE In this country we believe that a jury should be fully informed in order to produce justice in a case. But this past week a completely uninformed Colorado jury found James Holmes sane, rather than insane (in spite of testimony from experts and anyone who can see…
EPIDEMIC OF MOTHERS (AND NOW GRANDMOTHERS!) KILLING CHILDREN Leeza Gibbons with Dr. Ann Blake-Tracy addresses the issue of mothers on antidepressants killing their children. Cases discussed: Robert Kirkwood whose wife killed their two small children and herself while on Effexor. Christina Riggs, a nurse whose case is featured here being interviewed from prison, was on Amitriptyline…