How Could Drug Companies be so Evil?

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http://www.mercola.com/2004/may/15/drug_companies_evil.htm

 

How Could Drug Companies be so Evil?

By Dr. Joseph Mercola

 

According to the first comprehensive scientific review to include all available

studies, including negative data that have long been withheld from public

scrutiny by the pharmaceutical industry, four popular antidepressants being used

to treat thousands of depressed American children are unsafe, ineffective or

both. Those antidepressants are:

 

Paxil

Zoloft

Effexor

Celexa

 

This is damning evidence of the drug companies' patent disregard for the safety

of humans and focus on profits. GlaxoSmithKline was found to be concealing

evidence that shows that these drugs do not benefit children in any way and only

increase their risk of killing themselves. This was confirmed in an article in

the Canadian Medical Journal.

 

 

 

Fortunately, the British medical journals are far more responsive than the

American ones. The Lancet’s editorial states:

 

Research on SSRIs in children is marked by confusion, manipulation, and

institutional failure.

In a global medical culture where evidence-based practice is seen as the gold

standard for care, these failings are a disaster.

How confident is society that similar failings will not occur on a larger

scale in the future?

Changes are required at every level of the global health-care infrastructure

Despite these findings, the FDA continues to support these worthless

antidepressants by claiming the failed trials don’t necessarily mean the drugs

are ineffective. Data has also confirmed that taking SSRIs weren’t any better

for you than taking a placebo.

 

Folks, if this doesn't make you fighting mad, what will?

 

 

 

Just sit down and think about it for a moment. Drug companies do the research

and learn that the drugs don't work, yet are willing to sell and market them to

children even when it is clear that they are causing many children to commit

suicide.

 

 

 

Unpublished studies of venlafaxine suggested the drug increased suicide-related

events such as suicidal thoughts or attempts by 14 times compared with placebo.

This is reprehensible and despicable behavior equivalent to any third-world

dictator.

 

 

 

How can anyone possibly support this approach?

 

 

 

If this makes you one-tenth as angry as it does me, I encourage you to do

something practical about it. Tell several of your friends and have them join

the newsletter so they can learn practical alternatives to the ineffective and

deadly solutions being manipulated onto us and our children so these evil

companies can earn more profit.

 

Rather than risking the potentially deadly side effects of these drugs, I

recommend the following three steps. The great majority of patients at my clinic

noticed an amazing improvement in their depression when following them:

 

 

Omega-3 oils, specifically fish oil, is probably the single most important

nutrient for a child with depression to take.

 

 

Next they should only drink water as their beverage, taking care to avoid fruit

juices, soda and milk.

 

 

Restrict sugars and grains, which cause insulin levels to be elevated. You can

read about the techniques to follow to remove all grains and sugars from your

diet in my new book, Dr. Mercola’s Total Health Cookbook & Program.

 

 

Popping pills is rarely the answer to helping children suffering from

depression; it is only a temporary Band-Aid. In order to truly help these

children, we need to focus on finding the underlying cause of the problem, then

search for ways to treat it.

 

 

 

Related Articles:

 

Benefits of Several Antidepressants Similar

 

Antidepressants May Trigger Violent Behavior

 

Sugar Pills Work as Well As Antidepressants

 

Some Antidepressants Change Rat Brain Cells

 

Antidepressants and Suicide in Children: Why Did the Warnings Take so Long?

 

Antidepressants Causing Suicides in Kids

 

 

 

 

 

SBC - Internet access at a great low price.

 

 

[Guest guest]

Frank, to me a " corporation " is a headless body that can do far more

damage and get away with it than can a sole proprietorship. In fact,

that is of course a very important reason why so many businesses

incorporate---to try to assure that if " the business " causes damage

or kills someone, " the business, " not the person who owns the

business, will be held responsible.

 

That's how oil companies get off so lightly from devastating oil

spills, or from accidentally killing people in third world countries.

 

What can one expect the world to be like with all these monstrous

headless bodies stomping through it, turning over populations and

countries in their blind efforts to find money?

 

Elliot

 

, Frank

<califpacific> wrote:

> http://www.mercola.com/2004/may/15/drug_companies_evil.htm

>

> How Could Drug Companies be so Evil?

> By Dr. Joseph Mercola

>

> According to the first comprehensive scientific review to include

all available studies, including negative data that have long been

withheld from public scrutiny by the pharmaceutical industry, four

popular antidepressants being used to treat thousands of depressed

American children are unsafe, ineffective or both. Those

antidepressants are:

>

> Paxil

> Zoloft

> Effexor

> Celexa

>

> This is damning evidence of the drug companies' patent disregard

for the safety of humans and focus on profits. GlaxoSmithKline was

found to be concealing evidence that shows that these drugs do not

benefit children in any way and only increase their risk of killing

themselves. This was confirmed in an article in the Canadian Medical

Journal.

>

>

>

> Fortunately, the British medical journals are far more responsive

than the American ones. The Lancet's editorial states:

>

> Research on SSRIs in children is marked by confusion,

manipulation, and institutional failure.

> In a global medical culture where evidence-based practice is

seen as the gold standard for care, these failings are a disaster.

> How confident is society that similar failings will not occur on

a larger scale in the future?

> Changes are required at every level of the global health-care

infrastructure

> Despite these findings, the FDA continues to support these

worthless antidepressants by claiming the failed trials don't

necessarily mean the drugs are ineffective. Data has also confirmed

that taking SSRIs weren't any better for you than taking a placebo.

>

> Folks, if this doesn't make you fighting mad, what will?

>

>

>

> Just sit down and think about it for a moment. Drug companies do

the research and learn that the drugs don't work, yet are willing to

sell and market them to children even when it is clear that they are

causing many children to commit suicide.

>

>

>

> Unpublished studies of venlafaxine suggested the drug increased

suicide-related events such as suicidal thoughts or attempts by 14

times compared with placebo. This is reprehensible and despicable

behavior equivalent to any third-world dictator.

>

>

>

> How can anyone possibly support this approach?

>

>

>

> If this makes you one-tenth as angry as it does me, I encourage you

to do something practical about it. Tell several of your friends and

have them join the newsletter so they can learn practical

alternatives to the ineffective and deadly solutions being

manipulated onto us and our children so these evil companies can earn

more profit.

>

> Rather than risking the potentially deadly side effects of these

drugs, I recommend the following three steps. The great majority of

patients at my clinic noticed an amazing improvement in their

depression when following them:

>

>

> Omega-3 oils, specifically fish oil, is probably the single most

important nutrient for a child with depression to take.

>

>

> Next they should only drink water as their beverage, taking care to

avoid fruit juices, soda and milk.

>

>

> Restrict sugars and grains, which cause insulin levels to be

elevated. You can read about the techniques to follow to remove all

grains and sugars from your diet in my new book, Dr. Mercola's Total

Health Cookbook & Program.

>

>

> Popping pills is rarely the answer to helping children suffering

from depression; it is only a temporary Band-Aid. In order to truly

help these children, we need to focus on finding the underlying cause

of the problem, then search for ways to treat it.

>

>

>

> Related Articles:

>

> Benefits of Several Antidepressants Similar

>

> Antidepressants May Trigger Violent Behavior

>

> Sugar Pills Work as Well As Antidepressants

>

> Some Antidepressants Change Rat Brain Cells

>

> Antidepressants and Suicide in Children: Why Did the Warnings Take

so Long?

>

> Antidepressants Causing Suicides in Kids

>

>

>

>

>

> SBC - Internet access at a great low price.

>

>