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5/01/2001 – World Health Organization – SSRI Addiction

admin24 years ago4 months ago09 mins

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.

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4/9/2001 – FDA Doc Claims Fen-Phen Cover Up

admin24 years ago4 months ago09 mins

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.

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7/23/2000 – FDA officer advised diet-drug clinic about Fen-Phen

admin25 years ago4 months ago07 mins

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…

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7/15/2000 – FDA Warning Comes 40 Years Too Late on Mellaril

admin25 years ago4 months ago09 mins

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…

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5/24/2000 – Effexor – FDA Discontinuation Warnings

admin25 years ago4 months ago08 mins

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…

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4/14/2000 – Safety Study Skimping?

admin25 years ago4 months ago05 mins

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…

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09/07/1999 – Celexa & Alcohol

admin26 years ago02 mins

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…