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[sSRI-Research] THE TRACI WARNING: THE DRUG ALERT ON ANTIDEPRESSANTS

 

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THE TRACI WARNING: THE DRUG ALERT ON ANTIDEPRESSANTS

Posted by: CULTURESHOCKTV.COM

Sat Feb 14 19:09:46 2004

BY TONY DIGIROLAMO

 

I've come to a place and time doing this news thing here at

Cultureshocktv.com ... Where I'm having a John Walsh, America's Most Wanted

experience ... A shout it from the roof tops ... Shake the antennae of the

broadcasters, tell Houston, WEEEE HAVE A PROOOOOBLEM!

A 19 YEAR OLD WOMAN, TRACI JOHNSON, KILLED HERSELF ON ELI LILLY'S DIME

DURING THE RESEARCH OF AN ANTIDEPRESSANT DRUG.

 

THERE WAS NO AMBER ALERT FOR HER AND THE 24/7 NEWS CYCLE FOR HER KILLER ELI

LILY AND BIG DRUGS ... NO INVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS HERE KNOCKING THE DOORS

DOWN TO GIVE YOU A FAIR AND BALANCED REPORT.

 

THE TRACI WARNING! HOW ABOUT THAT?

 

NOT A TRACE OF THIS OUT THERE IN THE NEWS ... NO ONE IS YELLING HELP IN THE

MEDIA ... THEY JUST LET THEM DIE. DID YOU HEAR THAT?! ... ANOTHER TREE JUST

FELL IN THE FOREST.

 

I've come to a place and time doing this news thing here at

Cultureshocktv.com ... Where I'm having a John Walsh, America's Most Wanted

experience ... A shout it from the roof tops ... Shake the antennae of the

broadcasters, tell Houston, WEEEE HAVE A PROOOOOBLEM!

 

HELLO AMERICA ANYBODY HOME?

 

I believe we have too many distractions.War, The noise of an election ...

The lies and the false witness on our neighbors, commercials from the

politicians that slander good and honorable men and women in public service.

Then there's Jacko, Janet and Justin ... Let us not forget Laci.

 

No one knows about Traci ... nahhh

 

STOP!!! Please ... Stop, there's a young woman WHO DIED.

 

Can you hear the others? There minds altered ... the heart grows cold ...

and suddenly a new unreachable human being. The ones yet to do the

unthinkable are thinking about it. Sad to say.

 

The " Traci Warning. " It has come to this place and time.

 

But it's not just about Traci ... a normal, in heart, mind and spirit.

 

It's about those who have been told that they are not normal ... when in

fact they are.

It's about telling the truth.

It's about honor and decency.

 

There is no honor in what Big Drugs are doing in hiding the bad news side

effects.

 

There is no honor in Big Government protecting this evil.

 

There is no honor for those in Big Media who know about this story but don't

cover it ... because the advertisers are the Zolofts, Prozacs and the Paxils

.... They make Flonaze and Zyband too , and the list is endless and so is the

money. There is no honor, in this pay day.

 

Yeah, today, it is about Traci. Perhaps it should be.

 

Because of Traci ... Look at what has been done:

 

This from Vera Hassner Sharav's Op-ed at Cultureshocktv.com 20% volunteers

drop out after suicide

in Eli Lilly's duloxetine trial

'The Philadelphia Inquirer reports (below) that " the Institutional Review

Board (IRB), a body of the Indiana University School of Medicine, which has

been

monitoring the clinical trial, moved to tighten the duloxetine study. " And

the Inquirer

reports that IRB " ordered Lilly to accept no new subjects for the trial,

ordered an

independent psychiatrist to evaluate the current subjects, and required that

they sign a new consent form. " '

 

Sharav brings us to this all too familiar phrase:

 

" What did the FDA know and when did it know about the suicides?

 

What, if anything, does the FDA do to ensure that patients and volunteers

are protected from harmful drug tests? "

 

Sharav says, " 19-year old Traci Johnson's suicide occurred one week after an

FDA

advisory committee had urged the FDA to issue warnings about

prescribing antidepressant drugs for children under 18 because of an

increased risk in suicide. The FDA has yet to act upon its own

advisory committee recommendations. "

 

The Traci Warning is needed because of people like, Lilly spokesman,

Robert Smith, again from Vera Hassner Smith, 'A classic example of PHARMA

spin follows:

 

When confronted with the revelation that there were not one but 5

completed suicides in duloxetine clinical trials, a Lilly spokesman,

Robert Smith, is quoted stating: " The drug has been studied in 9,000

patients ....and we have not been able to discern any signal between

duloxetine and suicidal ideation. " '

 

The Traci Warning ... yeah we need this now!

 

 

Tony DiGirolamo

 

 

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