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.
The former US Surgeon General, Dr. C. Everett Koop has joined in the current concern over SSRI medications and suicide, and posts this on his site, drkoop.com. ————- Questions Persist Concerning Prozac’s Role in Suicide Risk May 11, 2000 Lee Hickling drkoop.com Health News The question of whether Prozac, the most-prescribed antidepressant, can make some…
In case you missed this I wanted to send this out again. I feel it is very important to know. There are too many children on this type of medication and little knowledge of these serious side effects to this drug. How many children are ending up on antidepressants as a result of their acne…
The revelations contained in this press release from Vickery and Waldner are remarkable. It is being sent to major news media today, Monday, May 15th. Mark =============================== FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: PROZAC, ZOLOFT, MAYHEM & SUICIDE Teicher & Cole – Together Again and Still Sounding the Alarm The February 1990 article by Harvard psychiatrists Martin Teicher…
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.
“Feelings of suicide and hopelessness are worse now than ever.”
Suit blames Prozac for suicide try By Jeff Swiatek The Indianapolis Star Last updated 11:58 PM, EST, Monday, May 01, 2000 A Pennsylvania woman and her husband have sued Eli Lilly and Co., charging that Prozac caused the woman to attempt suicide in 1997. The lawsuit, filed Friday in federal court in Pittsburgh, says Diane…
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/17/health/17SUIC.html Dr. Frederick K. Goodwin, senior author of the study and director of the psychopharmacology research center at George Washington University Medical Center Journal of the American Medical Association The new study, published today in The Journal of the American Medical Association, found that patients taking Depakote were 2.7 times as likely to kill themselves…