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By atracyphd on May 15, 2010
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.
Posted in Recent Cases Blog | Tagged Abrupt Change, Alcohol Consumption, Antidepressant, antidepressants, Blessings, Cravings, Decent Night, Dr. Tracy, Drug Store, FDA, Fret, Grave Concern, Hostility, Importance Of Sleep, Intervals, Journalist, lexapro, Manic Psychosis, SSRI, Toxic Effects, Triathlete |
By admin on January 12, 2010
Luvox (SSRI) amy Bond Was prescribed Luvox to treat my OCD prior to during and after birth of my 2nd child Having OCD i I was obsessed that this drug may harm the baby. I was reassured that it is a safe drug Our son was born with double outlet right ventricle, craniosynostosis and otosclerosis. [...]
Posted in SSRI Case Reports | Tagged 3 Years, Animals, Chromosomes, Class C, Craniosynostosis, Double Outlet Right Ventricle, FDA, Fish, Genetic Testing, Good Luck, Heart Surgeries, luvox, Morbidity, Ocd, Open Heart, Outlet Right Ventricle, Pregnant Woman, Pregnant Women, Skull, SSRI |
By atracyphd on October 12, 2009
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.
Posted in Recent Cases Blog | Tagged antidepressants, Bold Statement, Bowling For Columbine, Classic Case, Columbine, Comedian Phil Hartman, Coroner, Dr. Tracy, Effexor, FDA, Fda Testimony, Fri, Horror, Married Couple, Medication, Michael Moore, Murder Suicide, Paxil, Phil Hartman, Rbd, Recreationally, Rem Sleep Behavior Disorder, School Shootings, SSRIs, Taylors, Zoloft |
By dadams on August 9, 2009
“The report shows that Glaxo [makers of Paxil] knew in 1989, long before Paxil was FDA approved, that people taking the drug were 8 times more likely to engage in suicidal behavior than people given a placebo, or sugar pill. Now, it stands to reason that even the most depressed person would decline to take Paxil if given these facts. Also, parents certainly would decline if they were told about the risks. . . . “The FDA approved Paxil on December 29, 1992, with no warning to doctors or patients of the significant increased risk of suicidal behavior,” he writes.
Posted in Articles, Recent Cases Blog, SSRI fraud and kickbacks | Tagged Abrupt Withdrawal, adverse, Amp, Antidepressant, antidepressants, backs, Centers For Disease Control, children, Cold Hard Facts, company, Court Cases, Depression, Drug, drugs, FDA, Fifteen Years, Fraud, funding, Global Market, grassley, Hostility, ideation, Ims Health, investigation, kick, kick-backs, Leading The Way, Pharmaceutical, Potential Danger, prescriptions, Primary Care Physicians, Reactions, s.s.r.i., senator, Senator Grassley, serotonin, Side Effects, SSRI, studies, study, suicidal, Suicidality, SUICIDE |
By atracyphd on August 4, 2009
Seven drugs approved since 1993 have been withdrawn after reports of deaths and severe side effects. A two-year Los Angeles Times investigation has found that the FDA approved each of those drugs while disregarding danger signs or blunt warnings from its own specialists. Then, after receiving reports of significant harm to patients, the agency was slow to seek withdrawals.
Posted in Articles | Tagged alcohol, anti-depressant, Antidepressant, Depression, disorder, F.D.A., FDA, inhibitors, luvox, mood, Pfizer, s.s.r.i., serafem, serotonin, Sertraline, Side Effects, SSRI, SUICIDE, syndrome, Zoloft |
By atracyphd on August 3, 2009
The end of February 2008 the truth came out about the initial studies done on these new antidepressants. These studies had never before been made public or even submitted to the FDA for their review. Yet these studies showed that the drugs were of no more benefit than a placebo!
Posted in Overview | Tagged Abrupt Change, alcohol, anti-depressant, Antidepressant, antidepressants, Benefit, Closest Thing, Depression, disorder, drugs, FDA, Hostility, inhibitors, Initial Studies, luvox, mood, New Antidepressants, Pfizer, Placebo, psychosis, Risk, s.s.r.i., serafem, serotonin, Sertraline, Side Effects, SSRI, Ssri Antidepressants, Sugar Pill, SUICIDE, syndrome, Toilet, Truth, Zoloft
By atracyphd on November 10, 2008
“The report shows that Glaxo [makers of Paxil] knew in 1989, long before
Paxil was FDA approved, that people taking the drug were 8 times more likely to
engage in suicidal behavior than people given a placebo, or sugar pill. Now,
it stands to reason that even the most depressed person would decline to take
Paxil if given these facts. Also, parents certainly would decline if they
were told about the risks. . . .
Posted in Articles | Tagged Abrupt Withdrawal, Amp, Antidepressant, antidepressants, approval, biochemical, bribes, Centers For Disease Control, children, Cold Hard Facts, company, Europe, F.D.A., FDA, Fraud, Global Market, grassley, Hostility, Imbalance, Ims Health, investigation, kick-backs, Leading The Way, Memory Banks, Pharmaceutical, Potential Danger, Prescribed Drugs, prescriptions, Primary Care Physicians, research, senator, Senator Grassley, Side Effects, SSRI, Ssri Antidepressants, study, SUICIDE, Zoloft |
By retoddb on May 1, 2001
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.
Posted in DrugAwareness.org Newsletters | Tagged Addiction, Doctors, Drug Use, drugs, FDA, Free Pills, Free Prozac, Lilly, Major Newspapers, Newspapers, Page Ads, Paxil, Prescription Drug, Prozac, Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors, Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors, Seroxat, SSRI, SSRIs, Tranquillisers, Valium, World Health Organization |
By retoddb on April 9, 2001
April 7 (CBS) The drug company that manufactured “fen-phen,” a diet
medication linked to heart ailments, covered up problems with the drug that
emerged during Food and Drug Administration testing, a former FDA scientist
tells CBS News.
Fen-phen was removed from the market in 1997. Thousands of people who took
the drug have sued American Home Products of Madison, N.J., for health
problems they claim the drug caused.
Posted in DrugAwareness.org Newsletters | Tagged Cbs Health, Cbs News, Contenttype, Corruption, Diet Medication, Doc, Dr Ann, Drug Awareness, Executive Director, FDA, Fen-Phen, Food And Drug, Food And Drug Administration, Health Problems, Health Watch, Heart Ailments, International Coalition, Lung Problems, News Correspondent, Redux, Revelation, SSRIs |
By admin on July 23, 2000
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 [...]
Posted in DrugAwareness.org Newsletters | Tagged diet-drug, FDA, Fen-Phen |
By admin on July 15, 2000
We are grateful to our e-group member, Martin Hirschfeld, and also to Vera Hassner Sharav, President, CIRCARE: Citizens for Responsible Care & Research, for forwarding this information to us. AFTER 40 YEARS OF USE – the FDA has put new restrictions on the use of the antipsychotic, Mellaril. Obviously for many patients this strong warning [...]
Posted in DrugAwareness.org Newsletters | Tagged FDA, life-threatening side effects |
By admin on May 24, 2000
Thanks to Steve Whiting for alerting us to the following warnings from the FDA. It is about time the gave us some warning about the terrible withdrawal associated with the SSRI and SNRI antidepressants. I have highlighted a few spots in this warning that I want you to take note of in particular. Knowing HOW [...]
Posted in DrugAwareness.org Newsletters | Tagged Effexor, FDA, Warnings |
By retoddb on April 14, 2000
This article appeared yesterday on the ABC News site. We know that drugs are given only cursory tests before being introduced into the marketplace. Pharmaceuticals counter that they do extensive follow-up testing (post-marketing) to assure that the drugs are in fact safe. Now, it appears that this is something to which they only give lip [...]
Posted in DrugAwareness.org Newsletters | Tagged ABC news, Advocacy Group, Commitments, Dangerous Idea, Dumb Idea, evidence, FDA, Food And Drug, Food And Drug Administration, Freedom Of Information, Freedom Of Information Act, Independent Advocacy, John Mckenzie, Lingering Questions, Lip Service, Marketing Studies, New Drugs, News Site, Pharmaceutical Firms, Public Citizen, questions, Safety Study, Sidney Wolfe |
By retoddb on September 7, 1999
This is being remailed to make a minor correction. It comes from Dr. Tracy and our ICFDA Director in Norway– “I feel that this information coming in from our director in Norway is so critical that it needs to get to all of you immediately. Hope you can translate his English =-) Celexa has frightened [...]
Posted in DrugAwareness.org Newsletters | Tagged celexa, Celexa And Alcohol, Cipramil, Conclutions, Contact, Countries, Craving For Alcohol, Danish, Denmark, Doctors, Dr. Tracy, drugs, FDA, Lead, Norway, Obduction, Tragic Twist, Translate English |
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