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By Ann Blake-Tracy on April 24, 2013
“If either you or your child took Celexa or Lexapro between 2001 and the present and were under the age of 18 at the time, you may have a claim against the manufacturer, Forest Labs.
Posted in Articles, Education, Legal Cases, Recent Cases Blog | Tagged antidepressants, Baum Hedlund, celexa, class action, FRAUD FILED, lawsuit, lexapro |
By admin on March 17, 2011
BUT when a patient experiences mania or hypomania from an
antidepressant, it is ABSOLUTELY INSANE to think they will not
experience it again on a different antidepressant! He and his family
had better hold their breaths!
Posted in Recent Cases Blog | Tagged Abrupt Withdrawal, Anti-depressants, Antidepressant, Bipolar Disorder, Bipolar Patients, Bipolar Symptoms, Dream State, Drug Awareness, Drugawareness, Heart Stent Surgery, Hell On Earth, Hypomania, Hypomanic Episode, International Coalition, lexapro, Mild Seizure, Patient Experiences, Seizure Activity, Seizure Disorder, Wakefulness |
By Derk on March 17, 2011
A doctor who is telling the truth about the hypomanic episode this judge experienced from his antidepressant?!!!!! How refreshing that the patient is getting the truth rather than being told he had an “underlying” Bipolar Disorder that was manifest by his antidepressant use!!!!! Why can’t other doctors be as honest and come right out and [...]
Posted in Recent Cases Blog | Tagged Abrupt Withdrawal, Anti-depressants, Bipolar Disorder, Bipolar Patients, Bipolar Symptoms, Dream State, Drug Awareness, Drugawareness, Heart Stent Surgery, Hell On Earth, Hypomania, Hypomanic Episode, International Coalition, lexapro, Mild Seizure, Patient Experiences, Seizure Activity, Seizure Disorder, Telling The Truth, Wakefulness |
By Ann Blake-Tracy on June 25, 2010
O’LEARY, Acting P.J.
Samantha Elizabeth Rothwell appeals from a judgment after a jury
convicted her of second degree murder and found true she personally used a
deadly or dangerous weapon, a knife, in the commission of the crime. Rothwell
argues her federal constitutional rights were violated when the trial court
refused to instruct the jury to consider evidence of her intoxication in
determining whether she acted with conscious disregard for human life. We
disagree and affirm the judgment.
Posted in Recent Cases Blog | Tagged alcohol, Alcohol Abuse, Antidepressant, Anxiety And Depression, Assistant Attorney General, Chief Assistant, Court Of Appeal, Court Of Appeals Of California, Defendant, Friend Alex, G Brown, lexapro, Medical Marijuana, Montes, Physicians Desk Reference, Plaintiff, Ratner, Respondent, Rivas, Samantha Elizabeth Rothwell, Sobeck, Woman Stabs |
By Ann Blake-Tracy on June 19, 2010
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.
Posted in Recent Cases Blog | Tagged Ann Blake Tracy, antidepressants, Doctors, Doctors And Nurses, Doctors Note, Drug Reps, Financial Incentive, First Response, Frequent Side Effect, Investigators, lexapro, Medication, Medication Side Effects, Outpatient Treatment, Paragraph, Profession, Psychiatric Nurse, Psychiatrists, Public Safety, Serious Situation, Treatment For Depression |
By Ann Blake-Tracy 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, Ann Blake Tracy, Antidepressant, antidepressants, Blessings, Cravings, Decent Night, Drug Store, FDA, Fret, Grave Concern, Hostility, Importance Of Sleep, Intervals, Journalist, lexapro, Manic Psychosis, ssri stories, Toxic Effects, Triathlete |
By Ann Blake-Tracy on February 9, 2010
A Baton Rouge man is not
criminally responsible for the murder of his ex-fiancée and attempted murder of
one of her neighbors in 2008 because he was involuntarily intoxicated at the
time, one of his attorneys told a jury Wednesday.
Defense lawyer Tommy
Damico argued in his opening statement that Frederick Dominique Reed Jr. had a
violent reaction to the prescribed anti-depressant Lexapro, which he began
taking in early August 2008.
But a prosecutor countered that Reed was
“very calculated’’ in hunting down Mia Reid and shooting her at her
Scotlandville apartment while she slept next to her 10-year-old daughter on Aug.
23, 2008.
Posted in Recent Cases Blog | Tagged Advocate Staff Writer, anti-depressant, Assistant District Attorney, Damico, Defense Lawyer, Domestic Abuse, Early August, East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff, Gyan, Involuntary Intoxication, lexapro, Louisiana, Morvant, Murder Of One, Murder Trial, New Apartment, Page 2b, Protective Order, Showall, Temporary Restraining Order, Violent Reaction |
By Ann Blake-Tracy on February 9, 2010
HAILEY Nearly a year after Bert Redfern died in a
March 10 car crash on Idaho Highway 75 in Hailey, a Twin Falls man has pleaded
guilty to misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter for the fatal crash.
Cody
Stevens, 29, of Twin Falls, had been charged with felony vehicular manslaughter.
On Tuesday, just weeks before his district court trial was set to begin, he
pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor, which carries a penalty of up to a year in
prison and a $2,000 fine.
Posted in Recent Cases Blog | Tagged alcohol, Anti Depressant Drug, Antidepressant, Ariel Hansen, Baclofen, Bert, Car Crash, Court Documents, Court Trial, Crashes, Drugs Alcohol, Fatal Crash, Felony, Idaho, lexapro, Misdemeanor Vehicular Manslaughter, News Writer, Paragraphs, Prosecutor, Prozac, Sobriety Tests, Times News, Vehicular Manslaughter |
By Ann Blake-Tracy on February 9, 2010
The widow of an Ohio man who died in police custody in Fort
Myers, Florida last March, will file a federal lawsuit for violating her
husband’s constitutional rights by failing to recognize that he was mentally
ill.
Joyce Christie, of Girard, Ohio, and her son, plan to file the
action against the Lee County Sheriff’s Office and Prison Health Services (PHS),
the private company that oversees medical care for the jail, which had taken
custody of Nicholas Christie for trespassing.
Posted in Recent Cases Blog | Tagged Alcohol Cravings, Amnesia, Arby S, Constitutional Rights, Disorderly Intoxication, Federal Lawsuit, Free Coffee, Frequent Side Effect, Garage Floor, Lawn Furniture, lexapro, Medical Surveillance, Mood Swings, Myers Florida, News Pepper, North Fort Myers, Ohio Man, Pepper, Physicians Desk Reference, Police Custody, ssri stories |