International Coalition for Drug Awareness
Educating about the dangers of Antidepressant Medications
2/28/2002 • Antidepressant drug trials turn away most of the depressed population Mark Zimmerman, associate professor of psychiatry and human behavior, director of outpatient psychiatry at Rhode Island Hospital Brown University While antidepressants are among the most frequently prescribed medications, most patients treated for major depression in a typical outpatient psychiatric practice would not qualify…
This is a diary I kept of my Effexor withdrawal over a year ago. I finally feel ready to share it with people. The experience was agony, agony, wholesale agony.
I honestly can’t believe that doctors are prescribing depressants for people suffering from depression. And that they are prescribing drugs that cause brain damage.
2/13/2002 • Psychiatrists shift the mood on antidepressants Matt Weaver Society-Guardian The professional body for psychiatrists has conceded that antidepressant pills such as Prozac may only have a 50% success rate in treating depression. Psychiatrists shift the mood on antidepressants http://society.guardian.co.uk/mentalhealth/story/0,8150,649503,00.html Matt Weaver Society-Guardian The professional body for psychiatrists has conceded that antidepressant pills such…
I saw electricity around everything–it looked like electricity was going around the air and around my room
Anybody who says Effexor is not dangerous is lying
2/7/2002 • Scandal of scientists who take money for papers ghostwritten by drug companies Sarah Boseley health editor Guardian Scientists are accepting large sums of money from drug companies to put their names to articles endorsing new medicines that they have not written – a growing practice that some fear is putting scientific integrity in…
2/6/2002 • Scientists Find Little, If Any, Proof Ritalin Is Effective Brad Evenson National Post – Canada 2-6-2 After a painstaking analysis of 62 studies of Ritalin treatment for attention deficit disorder, a team of Canadian researchers says it has found little scientific evidence the drug lives up to its reputation. Scientists Find Little, If…
“Why is this drug on the market without telling of its possible side effects? I wish I never took Meridia.”
I frequently wandered around in a daze, or ran around at all hours of the day and night. I became intensely suicidal.