Eli Lilly knew Prozac had 1200% higher suicide rate than other antidepressants

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Thursday, January 13, 2005 commentary:

http://www.newstarget.com/003086.html

Eli Lilly knew Prozac had 1200% higher suicide rate than other

antidepressants

It's yet another example of the widespread negligent actions committed

by Big Pharma in the quest for profits. It's not just Vioxx, Bextra or

Celebrex. Now the truth is finally starting to come out on antidepressant

drugs like Prozac.

 

 

And what is the truth? That drug makers like Eli Lilly not only knew

their star drugs were more dangerous than alternatives, but that they

actively sought to suppress the release of that information in order to

protect profits.

 

What we are witnessing today is the beginning of the end of an era:

the days of the Big Pharma con in which direct-to-consumer advertising

pushed a drug industry to unprecedented levels of corporate greed.

 

Of course, Eli Lilly denies everything. It's the same story talking to

Merck. All these companies claim to be actually protecting the public health

and working for the common good. Yet they continue to sell drugs with

questionable safety records that are only now coming to light. And in none

of these cases did these companies produce these documents on their own. In

every case, they were " caught " by other people or organizations such as the

British Medical Journal, which has gone public with these documents on

Prozac.

 

If all this sounds familiar, it is: Big Tobacco used the same

stonewalling efforts in its ongoing denials that cigarettes were harmful to

health (or even addictive, if you can believe that). Today, Big Pharma looks

a whole lot like Big Tobacco: corporate greed, massive cover-ups, and

hundreds of thousands of people dying each year from the use of their

products.

 

One more thing: there are still tens of thousands of brainwashed

physicians willing to prescribe all these dangerous drugs to you. And if the

brainwashing wasn't enough, the kickbacks certainly are. Recommended

reading: " On the Take " by Jerome Kassirer, M.D. If you want to know the

truth about how drug companies literally bribe doctors into peddling their

drugs, read this book. It's authored by the former editor-in-chief of the

British Medical Journal.

 

Finally, I want to mention that I warned people about the suicide risk

of Prozac back in 1998. Back then, the idea that antidepressant drugs could

cause suicides was considered ludicrous. It was fringe information, almost

conspiracy theory stuff. Today, we're learning it's 100% true. And if you

don't believe me, just ask the parents of all the children killed at the

Colombine high school massacre in Colorado: their killers were on

antidepressant drugs.

 

Getting the picture yet?

 

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Overview:

 

 

 

a.. An internal document purportedly from Eli Lilly and Co. made

public Monday appears to show that the drug maker had data more than 15

years ago showing that patients on its antidepressant Prozac were far more

likely to attempt suicide and show hostility than were patients on other

antidepressants and that the company attempted to minimize public awareness

of the side effects.

b.. The document was provided to CNN by the office of Rep. Maurice

Hinchey, D-New York, who has called for tightening FDA regulations on drug

safety.

c.. " The case demonstrates the need for Congress to mandate the

complete disclosure of all clinical studies for FDA-approved drugs so that

patients and their doctors, not the drug companies, decide whether the

benefits of taking a certain medicine outweigh the risks, " he said.

d.. The 1988 document indicated that 3.7 percent of patients

attempted suicide while on the blockbuster drug, a rate more than 12 times

that cited for any of four other commonly used antidepressants.

e.. The document, which cited clinical trials of 14,198 patients on

fluoxetine -- the generic name for Prozac -- also stated that 2.3 percent of

users suffered psychotic depression while on the drug, more than double the

next-highest rate of patients using another antidepressant.

f.. In the paper, titled " Activation and sedation in fluoxetine

clinical trials, " the authors said that the drug may produce nervousness,

anxiety, agitation or insomnia in 19 percent of patients, and sedation in 13

percent of patients.

g.. Its editors said the documents had been reported missing from a

10-year-old murder case, and that they had sent them to the U.S. Food and

Drug Administration for review.

h.. A spokesman for Lilly said his company was expecting the release

of the purported internal documents, but that he could not comment on them

until he had seen them.

 

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/01/03/prozac.documents/

 

 

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