The Govt. Looking Out For Your Health Dept.: FDA Clears Lilly of suicide

[Guest guest]

> SSRI-Research

> Thu, 12 Aug 2004 16:52:30 -0700 (PDT)

> [sSRI-Research] FDA Clears Lilly of suicide

>

> The FDA has determined that a healthy volunteer who

> hanged herself 6 days after completing a clinical

> trial that had her taking up to 6x the prescribed

> dose of Lilly's new AD Cymbalta did not die as a

> result of the drug.

> Go figure.

 

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Living/ap20040812_922.html>

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> FDA: Lilly Drug Did Not Lead to Suicide

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> FDA Rules Antidepressant Did Not Play Role in

> Woman's Suicide During Eli Lilly Clinical Trial

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> The Associated Press

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> INDIANAPOLIS Aug. 12, 2004 - The Food and Drug

> Administration has concluded that Eli Lilly and

> Co.'s newly approved antidepressant Cymbalta did not

> trigger the suicide of a woman from Bensalem, Pa.,

> who was taking part in a clinical trial.

> An FDA investigation found that Cymbalta could not

> be linked to the death of Traci Johnson, who hanged

> herself with a scarf in Lilly's Indianapolis

> drug-testing clinic.

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> Johnson, a 19-year-old former Indiana Bible

> College student, killed herself Feb. 7 as she was

> participating in a study to see how high doses of

> the drug affected healthy volunteers.

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> A memo about the closing of the FDA investigation

> of the suicide is part of the FDA's Cymbalta

> approval package, the first part of which was sent

> to Lilly last week, an FDA spokesman said. It gives

> the drugmaker permission to start selling Cymbalta.

>

> The FDA declined to immediately release any

> written documents related to its investigation.

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> Lilly has not yet received the memo, but the

> company was told by the FDA that it had no further

> questions about the suicide, Lilly spokesman David

> Shaffer said.

>

> " We were informed there would be no findings "

> contrary to what Lilly had concluded about the

> suicide, he said. Lilly has said it found its drug

> was not to blame.

>

> The Marion County coroner ruled Johnson's death

> was by hanging.

>

> Johnson had stopped taking the drug and was being

> weaned from it when she killed herself. She took

> doses up to six times the recommended 60 mg daily

> dose for depressed patients.

>

> Lilly later increased from four days to eight the

> weaning period in the drug trial.

>

> The drugmaker has said Johnson was healthy and not

> depressed.

>

> Johnson's suicide came amid debate over the link

> between some antidepressants and suicide in users,

> particularly children.

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> In March, the FDA told 10 drugmakers to strengthen

> suicide-related warnings on labels for

> antidepressant drugs. Two FDA advisory committees

> are currently examining any links between

> antidepressants and suicides in children.

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[Guest guest]

Re the below article, to me there is something very

suspicious about anyone hanging himself.

This " drug testing clinic " is probably a psychiatric

hospital or prison.

Why would a person hang himself if he is voluntarily

taking a medicine? Wouldn't he go back to the doctor

who presecribed it? Why hanging? Aren't there easier

and more pleasant ways to die.

What is going on???

 

I'm very concerned about what is going on in

psychiatric hospitals, the psychiatric wards of

regular hospitals, and prisons--this whole subject of

psychiatric medicine and the abuse of detainees should

have the entire country concerned, but instead we want

to turn our backs on the vulerable people who end up

in this heartless system.

Meanwhile, the average person is rushing to the

pharmacy to stock up on prozac for their next weekend

trip.

 

 

 

 

 

> INDIANAPOLIS Aug. 12, 2004 - The Food and Drug

> Administration has concluded that Eli Lilly and

> Co.'s newly approved antidepressant Cymbalta

did not

> trigger the suicide of a woman from Bensalem,

Pa.,

> who was taking part in a clinical trial.

> An FDA investigation found that Cymbalta could

not

> be linked to the death of Traci Johnson, who

hanged

> herself with a scarf in Lilly's Indianapolis

> drug-testing clinic.

>