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Dr. Ann Blake Tracy (International Coalition For Drug Awareness) (Confirmed)
Dr. Ann Blake Tracy, a PhD in Psychology and Health Sciences, has specialized for 20 years in adverse reactions to serotonergic medications. She is the executive director of the International Coalition for Drug Awareness and author of the book PROZAC: PANACEA OR PANDORA?
ANTIDEPRESSANTS CAUSE CATARACTS, STUDY FINDS
NOTE FROM DR. TRACY (www.drugawareness.org): Could this be the problem with Glenn Beck’s eyes that is causing him to lose his sight? Antidepressants are not the first medication to be linked to a higher risk for cataracts. Beta blockers, steroids (oral or inhaled) and recently hormone replacement therapy (HRT) have all been linked to elevated risk [...]
A Decade Later Additional Heightened Concerns About Pharmaceuticals in Water
This kind of concern was first raised a decade ago in 2000. We sent out the information far and wide then. Clearly few knew enough to be concerned. But now with further study the results are shockingly confirming all we warned of in 2000! Those results are especially telling when it comes to fish being given low doses of Prozac . . . the bizarre changes inbehavior, etc.
DO NOT sit around and say it is only fish, there is no need to worry. Our entire world is balanced with each species playing an extremely important role. We do not survive if they do not survive!
FOSAMAX: Woman Awarded $8M After Osteoporosis Drug-Induced “Jaw Death”
NOTE FROM DR. TRACY (www.drugawareness.org): Perhaps Merck should just quit while they are SO FAR BEHIND!!! As if the Vioxx damage suits and wrongful death suits were not keeping their legal team busy enough, now they are just beginning a huge backload of jaw death cases related to Fosamax! Fosamax is a drug I have [...]
ANTIDEPRESSANTs: Canadian Coroner’s Jury Recommends Changes in Prescribing SSRIs
NOTE FROM DR. TRACY (www.drugawareness.org): Just today a Canadian Coroner’s Jury has made several recommendations in the way patients taking SSRIs are warned of the risks of taking these medications with alcohol or other drugs!! Two decades is all it took to FINALLY get this kind of warning even though it had to come from [...]
ANTIDEPRESSANTS: Patients Report 20 Times More Side Effects Than Doctors Report
The investigators followed 300 patients who were in
ongoing outpatient treatment for depression over six weeks. The authors compared
what the patient reported on a standardized scale of 31 different side effects
(Toronto Side Effects Scale; TSES) with the information recorded by the treating
psychiatrist on each patient’s chart. The main finding: A stunning disconnect
between psychiatrists and their patients. The average number of side effects
reported by the patients on the TSES was 20 times (!) higher than the number
recorded by the psychiatris. When the investigators concentrated on those side
effects that were most troubling to the patient, patients still reported
2 to 3 times more side effects than were recorded by the treating
psychiatrist.
ANTIDEPRESSANTS & ALCOHOL: Death: Ireland
AN A&E consultant has warned
of the “lethal” consequences of combining alcohol and prescription medication
following the death of Bertie Ahern’s nephew from a mixture of drink and
anti-depressants.
Dr Chris Luke said people were admitted every day
suffering from the effects of legal drug and alcohol cocktails. Dr Luke, a
consultant at Cork University Hospital, said legal drugs were as dangerous as
illegal drugs and the public needed to be made aware of the dangers.
ANTIDEPRESSANT & ALCOHOL: Suicide: British Judo Star Tipped for Olympics: UK
British judo star tipped for Olympic glory hangs himself with own black belt after breaking up with girlfriend
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 1:39 PM on 19th April 2010
A British judo star tipped for success at the 2012 Olympics hanged himself with his own black belt after struggling to get over splitting from his girlfriend, an inquest heard.
CELEXA: Murder-Suicide: Two Doctors Say Celexa Caused Tragedy: Ireland
THE WELLBEING FOUNDATION has demanded that Mental Health Minister John Moloney act immediately to put in place proper protections for patients, their families, relatives and friends following the ‘not suicide’ verdict in the Shane Clancy SSRI-inspired double death case. The Irish Medicines Board is still funded by the drug companies, still remains one body despite the recommendations of an Oireachtas committee, and still issues weak and ineffective patient information leaflets with inadequate warnings of the dangers of the SSRI antidepressants which drove Shane Clancy to kill a college friend and then stab himself to death.
ANTIDEPRESSANT & PAIN MED: War Vet Kills Self In Front of VA Medical Center: OH
DAYTON Jesse Charles Huff walked up to the Veterans Affairs Department’s Medical Center on Friday morning wearing U.S. Army fatigues and battling pain from his Iraq war wounds and a recent bout with depression.
The 27-year-old Dayton man had entered the center’s emergency room about 1 a.m. Friday and requested some sort of treatment. But Huff did not get that treatment, police said, and about 5:45 a.m. he reappeared at the center’s entrance, put a military-style rifle to his head and twice pulled the trigger.
One Big Reason for Dumb Blonde Jokes & More Women on Prozac & ADHD in Kids
NOTE FROM DR. TRACY (www.drugawareness.org): This information will give you some insight as to why I personally have not worn lipstick nor hardly any other kind of makeup for about 35 years now. . . . Studies suggest the average woman inadvertently consumes about 4 pounds of lipstick over the course of her life, licking [...]
One Big Reason for Dumb Blonde Jokes & More Women on Prozac & ADHD in Kids
NOTE FROM DR. TRACY (www.drugawareness.org): This information will give you some insight as to why I personally have not worn lipstick nor hardly any other kind of makeup for about 35 years now. . . . Studies suggest the average woman inadvertently consumes about 4 pounds of lipstick over the course of her life, licking [...]
MEDICATIONS: Yet Another So Called “Terrorist” on Meds!
Mohamed Mahmood Alessa, 20, of North Bergen, N.J.,
and Carlos Eduardo Almonte, 24, of Elmwood Park, N.J., were reportedly nabbed
with help from an undercover rookie New York policeman of Egyptian descent, The Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J.,
reported. Alessa’s mother, Nadia Alessa, told CNN she thought the man Alessa
and Almonte called “Bassim” recorded provocative remarks the pair made and built
a case against them.
PAXIL: Athlete Wrongly Given Pacemaker for Paxil-Induced Heart Malfunction – FL
The mainstream media
regularly reports on the “dangers” of “unproven” herbal remedies and
supplements. But what is the reported number of people who have died from using
herbs and supplements? According to the FDA, between 1993 and 1998, federal,
state and local agencies reported a total of 184 deaths, most of which were
associated with weight loss formulas. Compare that to the reported number of
people who die in hospitals because of the side effects of properly prescribed
pharmaceutical drugs: more than 100,000, every year. You can add to that the
number of patients killed in hospitals because of “medical errors”: another
100,000 or so. Those statistics are from the Journal of the American Medical
Association (JAMA). This means that the ordained guardians of our health kill as
many people every week as died in the September 11 terrorist attacks.
ANTIDEPRESSANT: Girl (11) From Bedwetting to Agitation & Psychotic Break
In “Anatomy of an Epidemic’’ Whitaker presents his theory that the dramatic increase in mental illness in the United States since World War II is the direct result of the medicines psychiatrists have been prescribing to treat it, and that this itself stems from an unholy alliance between the pharmaceutical industry and corrupt physicians. However, although extensively researched and drawing upon hundreds of sources, the gaps in his theory remain too large for him to succeed in making a convincing argument.
LEXAPRO: Journalist Has Side-Effects: Not Sure Lexapro is Working: U.S…
Salon
I take it every morning, right after I brush my teeth. A single white pill, with the letters F and L stamped on one side, the number 10 on the other. It’s so small it nearly disappears into the folds of my palm. You could drop it in my orange juice or my breakfast cereal, and I’d swallow it without a hitch.
And, for the last three years, I have been swallowing my Lexapro — and everything that comes along with it. And, apparently, I’m not alone.
Between 1996 and 2005, the number of Americans taking antidepressants doubled. According to the Centers for Disease Control, antidepressants are now the most commonly prescribed class of drugs in the U.S. — ahead of drugs for cholesterol, blood pressure and asthma. Of the 2.4 billion drugs prescribed in 2005, 118 million were for depression. Whether the pills go by the name of Lexapro or Effexor or Prozac or Wellbutrin, we’re downing them, to the tune of $9.6 billion a year, and we’re doing it for a very good and simple reason. They’re supposed to be making us better.
ANTIDEPRESSANT WITHDRAWAL: NC man gets 27 years in mother’s beating death
CHARLOTTE, N.C. A North Carolina man has been sentenced to nearly three
decades in prison in the beating death of his 83-year-old mother.
The Charlotte Observer reported that 56-year-old Jerry Heath was sentenced to
27 years in prison after pleading guilty Thursday to second-degree murder.
Medical examiner confirms death of 9-yr-old Colony, TX boy was
The Tarrant County medical examiner’s office ruled Thursday that a
9-year-old boy from The Colony committed suicide.
Montana Lance
The determination rules out speculation that Montana Lance’s death was
an accident.
Montana was found hanging in a bathroom at Stewart’s Creek Elementary
School around 1 p.m. Jan. 21. He was taken to Baylor Medical Center at
Carrollton, where he was pronounced dead.
SEROQUEL: Man accused of drugging, raping Orem woman – UT
OREM, Utah (ABC 4 News) – Police say a Utah
County man drugged a woman he met at a bar and raped her.
Police say on
Friday February 12, Orem officers responded to a report of a rape that
had been reported from the night before.
Police say the victim
is a 24-year-old woman from southwest Orem.
Medical examiner confirms death of 9-yr-old Colony, TX boy was suicide
NOTE FROM DR. TRACY (www.drugawareness.org): This suicide is much too similar to little Gabriel Myers’ (7) suicide in Florida last year – while in the custody of CPS! He too was on similar medications when he impulsively hung himself with a shower hose in the bathroom. Both types of medications have an FDA black box [...]
SSRI ANTIDEPRESSANT: 2008 Finnish School Shooting: 10 Dead
On September 23, 2008, at Kauhajoki in Finland, a 22 year old
culinary student named Matti Saari shot and killed ten students before
killing himself. The official report on the shooting has been released
by the Finnish Ministry and on page 58 of that report [PDF file] it states that
Matti Saari was taking an SSRI medicinal product and
also a benzodiazepine.
Prof in AL Shooting Was On Meds After Killing Her Brother 20 Yrs Ago
On December 6, 1986, this officer was directed by
Detective Lieutenant James Sharkey to conduct an investigation into the fatal
shooting of Seth Bishop at his residence of 46 Hollis Avenue in the Town of
Braintree.
This officer contacted Captain Theodore Buker of the Braintree
Police Department and was informed by Captain Buker that at approximately 1422
hours on December 6, 1986, the Braintree Police Department had responded to the
report of a shooting a 46 Hollis Avenue in their town.
Upon arriving at
the location, Officers Jordan and Murphy had observed the decedent lying on his
back on the floor in a pool of blood in the kitchen area, with a large chest
wound.
ANTIDEPRESSANTS ARE FAR FROM ALONE IN DANGERS! & BEWARE OF DRUG ADVERTIZING!
Why would Pfizer spend $100 million on two-minute TV ads that use a minute of
that time admitting that their drug Chantix can cause “changes in behavior,
hostility, agitation, depressed mood,” “weird, unusual or strange dreams,” and
“suicidal thoughts or actions”?
EFFEXOR: Man Smashes 29 TV Sets at Wal-Mart: Georgia
A Georgia man went on a rampage yesterday
at a Walmart outside of Atlanta, smashing dozens of flat-screen televisions with
a baseball bat he found in the store.
The man, 23-year-old Westley
Strellis, bashed in 29 flat-screen televisions worth $22,000, reports the
Atlanta Journal Constitution. He was charged
with a whopping 29 counts of criminal damage to property.
ANTIDEPRESSANT: School: 14 Yr Old Student Shoots to Death Another 14 Yr Old
MADISON, AL — Both the suspect and victim in Friday’s fatal
Discovery Middle School shooting belonged to the same would-be gang, officials
said Tuesday.
Speaking inside the school in front of a large poster with
Todd Brown’s picture and memorials written by students, authorities gave their
fullest picture so far of the investigation.
Brown, 14, died Friday after
being shot during a class change at the 1,001-student school. The suspect, also
14, has been charged with murder and is being held in a juvenile
facility.
DO NOT MISS RADIO SHOW TONIGHT!!re-scheduling you for next Monday night! Eli Lilly Exec & Dr. Tracy
Who is Dr. John Virapen? (See below for more detail.)
While general manager of the Swedish division of Eli
Lilly John BOUGHT the approval for Prozac in Sweden – yes, he bribed the
doctor responsible for making the decision to allow it on the market. Luckily
another doctor stopped that, but there was enough damage done that Lilly was
able to use what they bought to encourage other countries to approve this DEADLY
drug and pave the way for all of the Prozac clones that followed. He is now
doing all in his power to get the truth to the world about the criminal
practices of these companies and the dangers of these drugs and he wants
compensation for the victims. HE DOES NOT MINCE WORDS!
Together we hope to wake up America and then the world up to
this drug-induced nightmare!!!
PROZAC: Young Woman Dreams of Committing Suicide: Illinois
If you are one of the millions of people taking
antidepressants for mild depression symptoms, you might as well be taking a
placebo.
A study released by a team of researchers led by Jay C.
Fournier, of the Department of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania,
found that the most commonly prescribed antidepressants do little for mild to
moderate symptoms of depression, having the same results as a placebo.
SARAFEM (PROZAC) & ROBITUSSIN: Brittany Murphy Dies Suddenly: CA
“Let’s set the record straight
once and for all — Brittany was not taking any medication for her mood, for
anorexia,” Murphy’s husband Simon Monjack said. “It’s utterly ridiculous
that these rumors have perpetuated.”
Investigators found prescription
medication for depression, seizures, anxiety and pain. Monjack told Lauer his
late wife used Vicoprofen and Sarafem during her menstrual cycle. “Most of the
medications are mine. I suffer from seizures,” Monjack declared. The
screenwriter began to stutter and added, “I suffer from, you know, heart… my
heart stopped on December 3rd when we landed from Puerto Rico.”
ZOLOFT: Man Fires Shots into Country Club: Goes Manic for First Time: MN
A 64-year-old Minneapolis man pleaded guilty today to second-degree assault for
shooting at the Minikahda Country Club and said afterward that he hopes
something can be done to make it easier for adults with psychological problems
to get help.
“For me to do anything harmful to the club, I had to be
crazy because I loved the club,” Joseph C. Rice said in an interview after his
plea in front of Hennepin County District Court Judge Beryl Nord. “When you’re
out of your mind, the worst thing is you don’t know you’re out of your
mind.”
SSRIs: Withdrawal is Sometimes More Severe Than the Original Problem.
NOTE FROM DR. TRACY (www.drugawareness.org): Although this article at least acknowledges the problem with rebound where the initial problem seems like nothing compared to the withdrawal effects and rebound effects, it does not address the seriousness of withdrawal. What is described here sounds like a piece of cake compared to what so many go through [...]
ANTIDEPRESSANT WITHDRAWAL: Son Beats Mother: Drives Car into Abutment: CAN
OTTAWA The 28-year-old son of a
former high tech executive has pleaded guilty to assault causing bodily harm,
for grabbing his mother by the neck, smashing her head on the floor, covering
her nose and mouth to prevent her from breathing and throwing her down a flight
of stairs.
Roman Osadca admitted he was angry at his mother Elizabeth
Osadca on Oct. 7, 2008 after learning his ex-girlfriend had married. So he
charged toward his mother and tossed her on the floor, repeatedly punching and
shaking her head from side to side before placing both hands over her nose and
mouth.
ANTIDEPRESSANT: Makes Teenage Girl Angry All the Time: Massachusetts
Dear Annie: I am a 16-year-old girl who still wets the bed. I have
tried everything from wearing an alarm to taking medication.
I am now on
a prescription that works by telling my kidneys to stop producing urine,
although it doesn’t work all the time. A urologist prescribed an antidepressant
that prevents me from sleeping too deeply. With the combination of these two
medicines, I no longer wet the bed. However, the antidepressant causes me to be
uncontrollably angry all the time. I also don’t sleep well when I take it, which
just adds to my irritability. It has gotten so bad that it has started to affect
my relationships with friends and family.
PROZAC/SSRIs: Problematic [DEADLY!] For Bipolars: Dr. David Gratzer
Pay for the blue pill that works, not the red one that
doesn’t. That’s the president’s simple prescription for improving American
health care, one that relies on government panels and committees to set
guidelines for doctors and patients alike.
At least, that’s the
theory.
The theory met messy reality last week when the U.S. Preventive
Services Task Force recommended that women in their 40s shouldn’t get
mammograms. But the secretary of health and human services — who, incidentally,
oversees this panel — thinks women probably should. And the American Cancer
Society believes that they definitely should; major private insurance companies,
for the record, will continue to fund the tests.
ANTIDEPRESSANTS: Suicide: 22 Year Old Woman: England
A ‘SENSITIVE
and quiet girl’ who spent years bravely fighting depression took her own life
just days after her 22nd birthday, an inquest heard.
Family and friends joined
popular Natalie McCreanney at her party at Bibendum in Eastbourne town centre on
November 21 last year.
A week later, her body was
found on a secluded part of the beach, near the foot of Beachy Head.
An inquest on Tuesday heard
that Natalie, an animal lover, who studied at Plumpton College, had suffered ill
health as a child, which limited her sight and held her back at school.
Natalie paid for regular
counselling sessions for several years at the Eastbourne Clinic, but these ended
a couple of months before her death as she was thought to be too dependent on
staff.
ANTIDEPRESSANTS: Young Man Missing – Voices said “eat sugar”: Iowa
Hispanic man from Council Bluffs has been reported missing.
Larry Ely
Murillo Moncada, 25, was last seen Saturday, Nov. 28, at 6:15 p.m. at his
residence at 719 N. 14th St., according to his family. He was wearing a Navy
blue hooded sweatshirt and light blue seat pants. He was described as 5-feet,
5-inches tall and 140 pounds, with brown eyes.
Moncada’s mother, Ana
Moncada, said he went to work on Thanksgiving night; and, when he returned home
on the morning of Nov. 27, he seemed disoriented. She took him to see a doctor,
who prescribed an anti-depressant. He continued to feel disoriented and began to
hear voices, she said.
“He was hearing voices that said ‘eat sugar,’”
SSRI Antidepressants Linked to Lactation Difficulties
According to a new study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society’s
Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM), women
taking commonly used forms of antidepressant drugs may experience delayed
lactation after giving birth and may need additional support to achieve their
breastfeeding goals.
Breastfeeding benefits both infants and mothers in many ways as breast milk
is easy to digest and contains antibodies that can protect infants from
bacterial and viral infections. The World Health Organization recommends that
infants should be exclusively breastfed for the first six months of life. This
new study shows that certain common antidepressant drugs may be linked to a
common difficulty experienced by new mothers known as delayed secretory
activation, defined as a delay in the initiation of full milk secretion.
“The breasts are serotonin-regulated glands, meaning the breasts’ ability to
secrete milk at the right time is closely related to the body’s production and
regulation of the hormone serotonin,” said Nelson Horseman, PhD, of the
University of Cincinnati and co-author of the study. “Common antidepressant
drugs like fluoxetine, sertraline and paroxetine are known as selective
serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) drugs and while they can affect mood,
emotion and sleep they may also impact serotonin regulation in the breast,
placing new mothers at greater risk of a delay in the establishment of a full
milk supply.”
Brittany Murphy Cause of Death? Serotonin Syndrome?
Simon Monjack, left, husband of deceased actress Brittany
Murphy and Murphy’s mother Sharon pose with a portrait of the actress in Los
Angeles, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010. Monjack said the portrait by photographer Bruce
Weber was Murphy’s favorite photo of herself. (AP Photo/Chris
Pizzello)
A month after Brittany Murphy’s mysterious death, her mother and husband say
they are convinced the actress died of natural causes, not drugs or an eating
disorder.
In an interview with The Associated Press on Tuesday, Sharon Murphy and Simon
Monjack said that Murphy did not use drugs or alcohol and that they are awaiting
a determination from coroner’s officials that will end speculation prescription
medicine caused Murphy’s death on Dec. 20 at age 32.
Monjack said some of the prescription medications found in the couple’s
Hollywood Hills home belonged to him.
Murphy had mitral valve prolapse, a common condition where a heart valve does
not properly close, but doctors said the actress “would live a long and healthy
life,” Monjack said.
ZOLOFT: 12 Year Old Boy Kills 5 Week Old Infant: Georgia
The mother testified Wednesday morning in a
Cobb County, Ga., courtroom, where the Tampa boy faces charges of felony murder
and cruelty to children. He has pleaded not guilty. Juvenile Court Judge A.
Gregory Poole will decide the case without a jury.
The unidentified boy
a court order keeps his name secret was visiting relatives July 4
outside Atlanta when his cousin stopped at the Target to pick up food for a
picnic. According to court testimony, the 22-year-old mother left the keys in
the ignition and the air conditioning on as she shopped at the store for 18
minutes. When Young returned, the boy was playing on his cell phone in the back
seat. The radio was turned louder. And the infant was not responsive.
The
baby girl was taken off life support the next day. A medical examiner found
multiple skull fractures and ruled the cause of death blunt force trauma to the
head.
Bravo! Bravo! Bravo! European Parliament to Investigate WHO & “Pandemic” Scandal
The
Council of Europe member states will launch an inquiry in January 2010 on the
influence of the pharmaceutical companies on the global swine flu campaign,
focusing especially on extent of the pharma‘s industry’s influence on WHO. The
Health Committee of the EU Parliament has unanimously passed a resolution
calling for the inquiry. The step is a long-overdue move to public transparency
of a “Golden Triangle” of drug corruption between WHO, the pharma industry and
academic scientists that has permanently damaged the lives of millions and even
caused death.
ANTIDEPRESSANTS & MEMORY LOSS: Utah No. 2 in nation for Alzheimer’s
Memories of the year his parents hid a Red Ryder
BB gun behind the Christmas tree come easily to John Stone.
In fact, he can even recount the exact number of
BB cartons he emptied before his parents woke up that frosty morning in
Lewiston, Idaho.
But at 71, John forgets what he had for
breakfast today.
His mind can’t hold a current thought long
enough to retrieve hot dog buns at the grocery store. Or to remember which key
does what on the computer. Or that a dear friend he spoke with at church isn’t a
new acquaintance.
ANTIDEPRESSANT: Amnesia & Murder: Man Stabs Wife to Death: Nebraska
His mental
state now stabilized through medication, Robert T. Hollister has been ruled
competent to stand trial in the stabbing death of his wife, Jeanie “Ellie”
Hollister.
What doctors haven’t determined is whether the Omaha man was
sane at the time of his wife’s death on Nov. 3, 2008.
In a recent court
document, Lincoln Regional Center doctors said they needed more time to make
ANTIDEPRESSANT: Woman Attempts Suicide After Therapist Had Affair with Her: CT
GUILFORD After allegedly engaging in a sexual relationship with a depressed and suicidal patient for more than a year, a New Haven-based therapist was arrested this week on a sexual assault charge, police said Wednesday.
Alan M. Shulik, a 58-year-old town resident, turned himself in to police Monday, and is accused of second-degree sexual assault, Chief Thomas Terribile said. The victim reported the incident Aug. 31.
Shulik met the victim when she and her husband went to Shulik for marriage counseling in Shulik’s New Haven office, Bishop Street Counseling. The Cheshire couple attended four to five sessions together, and Shulik requested the husband and wife come separately to appointments, according to Shulik’s arrest warrant.
ANTIDEPRESSANTS: Sex Abuse: Woman (32) Has Affair with 14 Year Old Boy: PA
A former Pine Township woman facing felony
charges for having sex with a boy while he was 14 and she was 32 blamed her
actions on judgment clouded by taking multiple anti-anxiety
medications.
Tammy Lynn Woodley, 33, of 228 Park St., Grove City, told
Common Pleas Judge John C. Reed that a Grove City psychiatrist had prescribed
her four separate anti-anxiety medications and two anti-depressants, all of
which she was to take daily.
ANTIDEPRESSANTs: Murder: Youth Kills Friend: Oklahoma
Ronson Bush’s mother Tina Black took the stand on Wednesday to ask the court to spare her son’s life.
On day two of his trial, Bush admitted killing his friend Billy Harrington but still refuses to say he meant to do it. Because of his refusal, Grady County District Attorney Bret Burns is asking District Judge Richard Van Dyck to hand down a death sentence.
ANTIDEPRESSANTS & ALCOHOL: Charges for Shoplifting: England
A MAN tried
to flee a supermarket with £270-worth of goods and only enough cash for a taxi
home, a court heard.
Paul Richard Charnley stole the items from the Asda
store in Barrow.
But the 40-year-old was caught.
On Thursday,
Charnley appeared at Furness Magistrates’ Court over the theft.
ANTIDEPRESSANTS: Alcohol Cravings & Assault Lead to Fatal Heart Attack: TN
NASHVILLE, Oct. 25 (UPI) — U.S. country songwriter Rich
Fagan says he wants his life to honor his publisher-friend Tom Oteri who died of
a heart attack after Fagan cut him
with a knife.
ANTIDEPRESSANT: Serious Asault for Declining to Shake Hand of Stranger: AU
shake Daniel Liam Mansfield’s hand during Australia Day celebrations he punched
him so hard it snapped a tooth off at the gum.
Tipping the scales at
150kg, Mansfield, nicknamed Tank by his mates, packed plenty of
punch.
His victim, 80kg Joseph Leonard McLucas, was only hit once but
would still undergo more than $20,000 worth of restorative dental
work.
PROZAC: Alcohol Cravings & Assault with Amnesia: Massachusetts
Sentences three through five read: “Flavell’s court-appointed attorney Neil Madden said Flavell takes Prozac and was drinking Captain Morgan rum Thursday. Madden said his client “doesn’t remember entering Massachusetts General Hospital. He remembers being with a friend and he remembers ending up in jail.’’
Glaxo Said to Have Paid $1 Billion So Far to Settle Various Paxil Lawsuits
paid almost $1 billion to resolve lawsuits over Paxil since it introduced the
antidepressant in 1993, including about $390 million for suicides or attempted
suicides said to be linked to the drug, according to court records and people
familiar with the cases.
PROZAC: Soldier Stabs to Death Two Fellow Soldiers: New York
Natalia Valbuena, 15, little sister of Spc. Diego A.
Valbuena, 23, one of the two Fort Drum soldiers found dead of stab wounds
Tuesday in their Evans Mills apartment, spoke Thursday by phone from her home in
Port St. Lucie, Fla. Her parents, Fernando and Guerty Valbuena, were too
distraught to speak to the press about the loss of their son, the second of four
children.
Family members of Spc. Valbuena and Spc. Waide T. James, 20,
Port St. John, Fla., spoke Thursday about the young men: their commitment to the
military, their friendship, their hopes for the future.
They also spoke
of the little they knew of their relationship with Spc. Joshua S. Hunter, 20,
Ona, W.Va., the fellow soldier now accused of their gruesome double murder.
UPDATE: ANTIDEPRESSANT: GA House Speaker Resigns After Suicide Attempt, Affair
ATLANTA — Georgia’s powerful House speaker resigned
Thursday after a suiciide attempt and allegations by his ex-wife of an affair
with a lobbyist.
Glenn Richardson, the state’s first GOP speaker since
Reconstruction, had won sympathy from even his political enemies when he
revealed last month that he attempted suicide by swallowing sleeping pills.
But then his ex-wife went on TV and accused him of having “a full-out affair”
with a lobbyist while they were still married.
PROZAC: 15 Yr Old Girl Kills 9 Yr Old Neighbor “To See What It Felt Like”
A 15-year-old girl named Alyssa Bustamante
has been arrested and is going to court over killing a 9-year-old named
Elizabeth Olten ‘to see how it felt’ to kill someone.
Bustamante is to be
tried as an adult according to reports after lawmakers found out the viciousness
of her attack.
ANTIDEPRESSANT: Overdose ruled as cause of Reading High student’s death
An overdose of a
prescription drug caused the death last month of a 17-year-old Reading
High School student, the Berks County coroner’s office said
Friday.
Noelle-Cian Rodriguez, a senior, took a lethal dose of an
antidepressant medication and the death was ruled a suicide, Deputy
Coroner Jonn M. Hollenbach said.
ANTIDEPRESSANTS & PAINKILLERS: Soldier Dies in his Sleep: Virginia
For years after
the parachute accident that ended his Army service, Cody Openshaw spiraled
downward.
He entered college but couldn’t keep up with his studies. He
had trouble holding a job. He drank too much. He had trouble sleeping, and when
he did sleep, he had nightmares. He got married and divorced in less than a
year. He had flashbacks. He isolated himself from his friends and drank
more.
“His anxiety level was out of this world,” his father said. “This
was a young man who got straight A’s in high school, and now he couldn’t
function.”
ANTIDEPRESSANT: Owosso man judged incompetent to stand trial
CORUNNA -
The 33-year-old Owosso man accused of two Sept. 11 murders was found incompetent
to stand trial and will be remanded to the State Department of Mental Health for
treatment.
Sixty-sixth District Court Judge Terrance P. Dignan signed an
order Wednesday afternoon finding Harlan Drake incompetent. However, Dignan, in
his written opinion, said there is a substantial probability Drake will attain
competence with treatment.
Dignan’s decision was based on a report filed
by the Center for Forensic Psychiatry in Ann Arbor, where Drake was
evaluated.
ANTIDEPRESSANTS: Murder: Mother Kills 11 Year Old Son: Attempts to Kill…
Tragic: James Taylor was drowned in the bath by his mother Jennifer in
December 2008. She has been detained indefinitely under the Mental Health
Act
A mother drugged and drowned her 11-year-old son in despair after
running up debts of £290,000, a court heard yesterday.
Jennifer Taylor
was detained indefinitely under the Mental Health Act for killing James at their
home last December.
DEPRESSION MED: Rage: Elderly Man Beats & Bites his Doctor: England
A PENSIONER who bit his doctor and punched
him in the face in front of “scared” patients will have to serve a year behind
bars.
Gabriel Moya, 69, flew into a rage at a receptionist at Gossops
Green Surgery, when she handed him a prescription he thought was
incomplete.
Moya, who has had heart surgery in the past, was told to calm
down by a doctor but lashed out, punching him twice in the face and biting him
on the arm as he was pinned to the floor.
ZOLOFT: Wrongful Death Suit Filed in Behalf of the Andrea Roberts’ Family
SHERMAN — In a suit recently transferred to the East
Texas federal court, the maker of a popular anti-depressant drug is being blamed
for a murder-suicide committed by a woman who had taken the drug.
Court
papers say that after taking Pfizer’s drug Zoloft, 41-year-old Andrea Roberts
shot and killed her two children and husband before turning the gun on
herself.
Her parents, Glenda and John Robert McCoy, and brother, John
Andrew McCoy, acting pro se, first filed a suit in Denton County on July 31 on
behalf of decedents Jon Andrea Roberts, Michael Roberts, Micayla Roberts and
Dylan Roberts.
LEXAPRO: Artie Lange Arrested for DUI: New York
At long last, The
Howard Stern Show returned to the air live this Monday morning. With
the abundance of celebrity news to catch up on and current box office topper
“Bruno” in the studio, Howard Stern Show fans really only wanted to hear about
one thing: Artie
Lange’s DUI. After proclaiming that he had been clean and sober for
months, Artie Lange was arrested on suspicion of DUI on Friday after a fender
bender in Tom’s River, New Jersey.
ZOLOFT & SEROQUEL: Multiple Drug Toxicity-Marine’s Autopsy Report Released
The U.S. Marine Corps has released
the autopsy report for Cpl. Chad Oligschlaeger of Round Rock, who was found dead
in his room at the Twentynine Palms Marine base in California on May 20, 2008.
The report found that Oligschlaeger died from multiple drug toxicity.
His death was ruled accidental, according to the report.
The report
shows that methamphetamine and the antidepressants sertraline [Zoloft] and
benzodiazepine were found in Oligschlaeger’s system. Propranolol, a hypertension
drug used to treat post-traumatic stress disorder, and Quetiapine [Seroquel], an
antipsychotic medication, were also found.
WELLBUTRIN & LORAZAPAM: Bear Stearns’ Tannin Faces Charges
In words never intended for public consumption, Tannin wrote of his
worries about becoming dependant on an antidepressant, Wellbutrin, and a stress
medication, Lorazapan, to cope with concern about the performance of his
fund. He expressed satisfaction at earning close to $2m (£1.3m) in a
year but alluded to a “religious crisis” and complained about “schlepping the
kids around from place to place” during a holiday in London.
ANTIDEPRESSANT: Mother of Columbine killer tells of horror 10 yrs after massacre
The
mother of one of the two teenagers who murdered a dozen fellow students and a
teacher in the massacre at Columbine high school has broken a decade of
silence to say that she is unable to look at another child without thinking
about the horror and suffering her son caused.
Susan
Klebold, whose son Dylan and another youth, Eric Harris, hunted down pupils at
the Colorado school with shotguns, a semi-automatic pistol and a rifle before
killing themselves, has described her trauma over her son’s actions.
ANTIDEPRESSANTS: 42% of suicides in One Indiana County Were on Antidepressants
Vanderburgh County had the same number of suicides through the first half of
this year as it did in the first six months of 2008, though officials say there
has been a marked increase in self-inflicted deaths tied to the faltering
economy.
Of the 17 suicides reported through June 30, six of them
occurred after the person lost his job.
That compares with only one
LEXAPRO: The Howard Stern’s Show’s Artie Lange Arrested for DUI: New York
Artie Lange was noticeably quieter than usual on Monday morning’s broadcast, only peppering the on-air conversations with an occasional joke or cutting remark. About two hours into the broadcast, Artie Lange finally broke his silence about Friday’s DUI. After stating that: “for once I’m actually doing something sensible and listening to my lawyer and not talking about it,” Artie Lange went on to tease the audience with a few details of the incident that catapulted him to the top of Google Trends on Friday, despite The Howard Stern Show having been off air for a full two weeks.”
SSRI: 100-500% Increased Risk of Heart Birth Defects If Taken In Early Pregnancy
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – If you take antidepressants such as fluoxetine (marketed as Prozac) early in your pregnancy, you may be doubling the risk that your newborn will be born with a heart defect, according to a new study.
However, the vast majority of children born to women who take such antidepressants – known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) – do not have such defects, the researchers are quick to note.
Earlier studies have tied SSRIs during pregnancy to heart defects, but also to even more serious birth defects. According to the new study of nearly half a million children born in Denmark between 1996 and 2003, however, only heart defects are likely to be associated with the antidepressants, note co-author Dr. Lars Henning Pedersen, from Aarhus University, Denmark, and colleagues.
ANTIDEPRESSANTS & THEIR CONNECTION TO FALSE MEMORIES OF SEXUAL ABUSE
Oldies radio stations around the country are debating whether to continue playing the music of one of the quintessential ’60s groups, the Mamas and the Papas, in the wake of Mackenzie Phillips’ allegations that she had an incestuous relationship with her father, group founder John Phillips.
“I just had a long discussion with our morning show team,” said Jay Beau Jones, program director of Boston’s WODS, “Oldies 103.3,” a long-running CBS Radio affiliate. On Friday morning, disc jockeys Chris Zito and Karen Blake will invite their audience to call in and talk about Phillips and his musical legacy. “Obviously, this is a horrific, car-crash type of story,” says Jones. “If the station plays ‘California Dreamin” or ‘Monday, Monday,’ my concern is the audience will have a negative reaction and turn off the radio.”
Juvenile Murders & Push for Use of Antidepressants in that Age Group Coincide
A Kansas City, Kan., girl charged with murder at age 13 faces adult court and many years in prison.
A boy who was 13 when he killed a man last year will stay in the juvenile system and could be released when he is 22½, a Wyandotte County judge ruled early this month.
Both cases illustrate how children who commit heinous crimes are testing the boundaries of the justice system.
WELLBUTRIN, Valium & Painkiller: Death: Overdose: New York
The Medical Examiner’s office now says Robert Guskind’s death from an overdose was accidental.
Robert Guskind, the prolific yet troubled force behind the Gowanus Lounge Web site, died of “an accidental overdose” from a combination of prescription medication, the city’s medical examiner said.
Guskind’s March death was caused by “acute intoxication from the combined effects” of a painkiller and two antidepressants. He was 50 years old.
ANTIDEPRESSANTS: Four Soldiers From the 1451st Transport Co. Kill Themselves
Posted: September 2, 2009Read Comments(6)RecommendE-mail Print ShareA A If there is something that might help returning soldiers better adjust to civilian life — something that might help tame the inner demons of war — it is mandatory, intensive and long-term counseling.
It wasn’t required when Sgt. Jacob Blaylock and three other soldiers in the 1451st Transportation Company returned home nearly 2 1/2 years ago and later ended their own lives. Although some are receiving more counseling now, that follow-up work still is not required and, for various reasons, might never be.
DEPRESSION MED: Heat Stroke: Death: Arizona
PHOENIX — An autopsy performed on a state prison inmate who died after spending nearly four hours in the Arizona heat said it was heat exposure and dehydration that killed her.
Marcia Powell, 48, died last May, about 10 hours after she collapsed in an outdoor, unshaded holding cell at the Perryville prison in Goodyear.
Her body’s core temperature had risen to 108 degrees, according to the newly-released autopsy report.
ANTIDEPRESSANTS: Emotional Blunting: British Journal of Psychiatry
Servier, the funders, were able to comment on initial study design, but had no role in the collection, analysis and interpretation of data, and no role in the writing of the manuscript. Servier have a research programme for the development of psychotropic compounds, including antidepressants. Although they were able to comment on the final manuscript, no changes were introduced as a result of their comments, and they had no influence on the decision to submit the paper for publication. The researchers were, therefore, independent of the funders.
PROZAC: Woman Develops Hypomania: Later Diagnosed as Bipolar as They All Are!
My first psychiatric diagnosis was major depression, and my first psychiatric medication was Prozac. It was prescribed by my GP, not by a psychiatrist. I had a one-week follow-up visit, and then I was turned loose. It takes hindsight to see that what I thought was “normal” behavior in response to Prozac was in fact at least mild hypomania. Someone even called me “the poster child for Prozac.” This was in 1994, and I wasn’t diagnosed with bipolar disorder until 1999, after another antidepressant did a similar thing.
ANTIDEPRESSANTS: Businessman Shoots Self Weeks Before Wedding: England
Abigail King was making final preparations for her wedding
when her fiancé Mark went missing. Although she was aware that his property business was failing in the credit crunch, she had no idea of the extent of his desperation
‘It was starting my own company that saved my life,’ says Abigail King
On a sunny morning in April 2008 I got up early. My fiancé Mark Sebire and I were getting married in five weeks’ time and I wanted to sort out the final arrangements for our wedding. I dressed up to go for a girls’ lunch and when I came downstairs, Mark hugged me and told me he loved me. As I left the house he was watching GMTV on the sofa, eating cereal.
CYMBALTA: Five Patients Commit Suicide During Clinical Trials: U.S.A.
Cymbalta manufactured by Eli Lilly is a serotonin norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor (SNRI) antidepressant used to treat major depression. It is prescribed to treat pain associated with diabetic peripheral neuropathy, which is a painful nerve disorder associated with diabetes that affects the hands, legs, and feet. Cymbalta has only recently been approved for use to treat fibromyalgia if people can tolerate Cymbalta’s side effects.
The drug works by preventing serotonin and noradrenaline from being reabsorbed back into the nerve cells in the brain. This helps prolong the mood-lightening effect of any released serotonin and noradrenaline, restoring balance to the emotions of the patient. Cymbalta may also be used in the treatment of generalized anxiety disorder.
PAXIL TRIAL: Glaxo Executive’s Memo Suggested Burying Drug Studies (Update4)
Sept. 15 (Bloomberg) — An executive of GlaxoSmithKline Plc, the world’s second-biggest drugmaker, talked about burying negative studies linking its antidepressant drug Paxil to birth defects, according to a company memo introduced at a trial.
“If neg, results can bury,” Glaxo executive Bonnie Rossello wrote in a 1997 memo on what the company would do if forced to conduct animal studies on the drug. The memo was read during opening statements in the trial of a lawsuit brought by the family of a child born with heart defects.
Antidepressant Romance Fuels “Premedicated” Murder
Note From Dr. Tracy: I must say that in the 20 years I have been specializing in adverse reactions to antidepressants and lecturing and writing about these drugs this is possibly the best article I have ever read on the overall problem with antidepressants!! EXCELLENT WORK!!! The only thing I might have added is that [...]
ANTIDEPRESSANTS: Murder-Suicide: 81 Year Old Man Kills Wife & Self: En…
Note From Dr. Tracy: I do not know if I can tolerate reading another one of these stories! This last week I went to the Iowa State Fair for the first time with my daughter and her family who were visiting. While riding the trolley through the fair the man sitting across from me asked an [...]
ANTIDEPRESSANT, PAIN KILLER & ALCOHOL: Husband Kills Wife of 29 yrs & Self: TX
Note from Dr. Tracy: Antidepressants and pain killers SHOULD NOT be used in combination! I absolutely cannot believe how common this is that doctors will prescribe these drugs together and then add alcohol on top of that?! Also the Physicians Desk Reference states that antidepressants can cause a craving for alcohol and alcohol abuse. Also, [...]
Paxil: Iraq War Vet Suicidal: Holds Police At Bay for 9 Hours: Michigan
Note from Dr. Tracy: Yet another suicidal vet who first overdosed on his antidepressant and Xanax and then became homicidal enough that he was going to shoot police – often in an attempt to commit what is now called suicide by cop. These drugs produce both suicide and violence as we see once again in [...]
PAXIL: Road Rage Death: Woman Drives on Wrong Side of Freeway: No Alcoh…
Note from Dr. Tracy: Why are police still looking for the reason why she was driving the wrong way on the freeway when they already know she was on Paxil? A large number of these cases of driving the wrong way on the freeway involve these antidepressants. __________________________________________________________ Paragraph one reads: "A Monroeville woman who [...]
ANTIDEPRESSANTS: Assault of an officer: Australia
Note from Dr. Tracy: This sounds too familiar to the Donald Schell case in Wyoming that went to trial after he took Paxil for two days and then shot and killed his wife, daughter, infant granddaughter and himself. The jury ruled in that case that the two antidepressants were the main cause of that tragic [...]
Virginia Tech Gunman’s Mental Records Found
Note from Dr. Tracy: The most important records in this case have never been released. These may be interesting but we still need to know what he had been prescribed over the period of time before the shooting. Roommates spoke of him taking his antidepressant that morning, but then we never heard another word about [...]
ANTIDEPRESSANTS: Soldier Charged with Attempted Murder: Colorado
Note from Dr. Tracy: Yet ANOTHER antidepressant-induced violent incident!!!! Just how many of these do we need to witness in one area before society begins to connect the dots back to these deadly drugs they are giving to so many soldiers for PTSD?! How many antidepressant-induced murder cases from the Ft Carson/Colorado Springs area did [...]
4/19/2001 – Dr. Tracy on the air with Columbine victims
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2/27/2001 – Dr. Tracy on Bob Dornan Show
Hear Dr. Ann Tracy on THE BOB DORNAN SHOW, broadcast
live at 9:00am ET, 6:00am PT, Wednesday, February 28th. For
stations in your area, or to listen via the web, at
www.bobdornan.com.
2/13/2001 – Dr. Tracy to Appear on the Alex Jones Show
On Wednesday, February 14, Dr. Tracy will be the featured guest
on the national talk radio show, “The Alex Jones Show.”
Broadcast live at noon, CST, the show can also be heard via
streaming audio at http://www.infowars.com.
12/27/2000 – Ian Punnett Show tonight with Dr. Tracy as guest
Sorry that this is not much of a notice, but we just learned that tonight at 8:00 PM Eastern time Dr. Tracy will be doing a national radio show with Ian Punnett. Check your local stations to see who carries it in your area.
11/20/1999 – Insight Article on Colorado Hearings
The article from Insight is out and it is great!!! You can find it at:
http://www.insightmag.com/articles/story3.html
The author is getting lots of flack for this one, so please write in
your support.
Dr. Tracy
08/02/1999 – SSRI Prescribing in Primary Care Draws Fire
Note that 8% of all general hospital psychiatric admissions caused by SSRI-induced psychoses!–Thanks to Dr. Tracy for passing this along. Mark ———– FromClinical Psychiatry News SSRI Prescribing in Primary Care Draws Fire Todd Zwillich, Senior Writer [Clinical Psychiatry News 27(6):34, 1999. © 1999 International Medical News Group.] ———————————————————————— More primary care physicians are prescribing antidepressants, [...]