- FINALLY, after years of deadly
drugs being available to children with no warning of the danger of increased
fatalities due to suicide, the FDA issues a black box warnings for all
antidepressants on the market!
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- This long overdue and many children have died or suffered
serious damage as a result of this lack of warning. Perhaps NOW doctors
will finally think before handing these drugs out like candy to children
and teens.
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- The scientific evidence behind this has been out there
for decades. All anyone ever had to do was read it. I explained that clearly
in my latest testimony before the FDA on September 13, 2004. I will include
that here.
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- I am Ann Blake Tracy, PhD, head of the International
Coalition for Drug Awareness. I am the author of "Prozac: Panacea
or Pandora." [Financial disclosure] My house has been mortgaged to
the hilt to pay for the last 15 years that I have devoted to nothing but
research on SSRI antidepressants and to fund my trip here.
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- I have testified as an expert witness for twelve and
a half years in court cases involving these drugs.
- Research on serotonin has been clear from the very beginning,
that the most damaging thing that could be done to the serotonergic system
would be to impair one's ability to metabolize serotonin, yet that is exactly
how SSRI antidepressants exert their effects. For decades research has
shown that impairing serotonin metabolism will produce nightmares, hot
flushes, migraines, pains around the heart, difficulty breathing, worsening
of bronchial complaints, tension and anxiety which appear from out of nowhere,
depression, suicide - especially very violent suicide and repeated attempts,
hostility, violent crime, arson, substance abuse including cravings for
alcohol and other drugs, psychosis, mania, organic brain disease [brain
damage], autism, anorexia, reckless driving, Alzheimer's, impulsive behavior
with no concern for punishment, and argumentative behavior.
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- How anyone ever thought it would be therapeutic to chemically
induce these reactions is beyond me, yet these reactions are exactly what
we witnessed in our society over the past decade and a half as a result
of the widespread use of these drugs.
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- Can you remember two decades ago when depressed people
used to slip away quietly to kill themselves rather than killing everyone
around them and then themselves, as they do while taking an SSRI antidepressant?
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- A study out of the University of Southern California,
in 1996, looked at a group of mutant mice that had been genetically engineered.
In an experiment that had gone terribly wrong, they were the most violent
creatures they had ever witnessed. They were born lacking the MAOA enzyme
which metabolizes serotonin. The end result is the same as if they were
taking an SSRI antidepressant which does inhibit the metabolism of serotonin.
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- This has been a national holocaust. It must end. These
are extremely dangerous drugs that should have been banned as similar drugs
were in the past.
- As a society, we once thought LSD and PCP to be miracle
medications. We have never seen drugs so similar to LSD and PCP as these
SSRIantidepressants are. All of these drugs produce dreaming during periods
of wakefulness. The higher serotonin levels overstimulate the brain stem
leading to a lack of muscle paralysis. That was seen clearly in the case
of comedian Phil Hartman and his wife in the terrible murder-suicide [whose
wrongful death suit has been settled by the makers of Zoloft].
- Thank you.
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- Ann Blake Tracy, Ph.D.,
- Executive Director, International Coalition For Drug
Awareness
- Website: <>www.drugawareness.org
- Author: Prozac: Panacea or Pandora? - Our Serotonin Nightmare
- & audio tape on safe withdrawal: "Help! I Can't
Get Off My Antidepressant!"
- Order Number: 800-280-0730
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- Office: 801-282-5282
- Cell: 801-209-1800
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- <http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=to
pNews&storyID=6514877>
US Orders New Warnings On Antidepressants For Kids
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- WASHINGTON (Reuters) - All antidepressants must come
with tough warnings explaining that the drugs increase the chances of suicidal
behavior in some children and teens, U.S. health officials said on Friday.
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- In an order to drug makers, the Food and Drug Administration
said the
- information to be highlighted in a black box must also
state whether the
- drug has, or has not been, cleared for use by children.
Only Eli Lilly and
- Co.'s Prozac is FDA-approved for treating pediatric depression.
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- © Reuters 2004. All Rights Reserved.
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