Health Supreme Update: FDA Covers Up Report - Mosholder: 'Antidepressants Double Suicides in Children'

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> Health Supreme Update: FDA Covers Up Report

> - Mosholder: 'Antidepressants Double Suicides in

> Children'

> sepp

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> Health Supreme Update: FDA Covers Up Report -

> Mosholder: 'Antidepressants Double Suicides in

> Children'

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> August 12, 2004

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> According to a recent article published in the

> British Medical

> Journal, a scientific report by one of its

> researchers, Dr.

> Andrew Mosholder, showing that antidepressant

> drugs double the

> suicide rate in children taking them, was

> suppressed by the

> FDA. Instead of owning up to its mistake and

> issuing

> generalized warnings, the agency has launched a

> criminal

> investigation to find out which employees leaked

> Dr.

> Mosholder's report. Apart from the FDA's

> dishonesty in dealing

> with drug side effects, we should take a serious

> look at the

> practice of prescribing drugs to children, which

> is based on a

> flawed paradigm of " abnormal " behavior being

> caused by chemical

> imbalances in the brain, to...

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