Paxil Suicide Stunner - aug 1, 2004

[Guest guest]

(And now Big Pharma and Bush & Co. want to screen the

entire population for " mental illness " and put larger

amounts of people on these same drugs or worse ones.)

 

 

> SSRI-Research

> Wed, 8 Sep 2004 05:13:29 -0700 (PDT)

> [sSRI-Research] Paxil Suicide Stunner - aug

> 1, 2004

>

> Children and psychiatric drugs

>

> The pressure is still on the psychiatric industry

> regarding their use of

> addictive, destructive drugs being given to

> children. The cold, callous

> intention to push their drugs into the child market

> is one of the low points

> of modern biological psychiatry. Consider this

> recent report:

>

> http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/28392.htm

>

> August 1, 2004 -- EXCLUSIVE

>

> The manufacturer of controversial antidepressant

> Paxil found in its own

> trials that children on the drug went though hellish

> ordeals of " out of

> control " behavior, suicide threats, hallucinations

> and hospitalization,

> records show.

> Those reports, obtained by The Post, are among 400

> case studies of " adverse

> events " that led a scientist for the Food and Drug

> Administration to

> conclude that most antidepressants raise the risk of

> suicide in children.

>

> At least 110 American kids have killed themselves

> while taking

> antidepressants during the past decade, new FDA data

> says.

>

> With U.S. doctors continuing to prescribe Paxil and

> other antidepressants to

> millions of kids, the FDA is now considering whether

> to issue stronger

> warnings or advise against their use, as Great

> Britain has done.

>

> The Post reviewed a sampling of reports of children

> who suffered horrific

> events during Paxil clinical trials from 1994 to

> 2001. One internal document

> lists 23 children and teens as making suicide

> attempts.

>

> The kids swallowed handfuls of pills such as

> Tylenol, " self-mutilated, " or

> did other " self-damaging acts, " it states.

>

> Other examples of alarming behavior outlined in the

> documents include:

> * A 10-year-old boy taking Paxil for two weeks

> " became violent and out of

> control with aggressive and agitated behavior toward

> himself. " He ran away

> from home and was put on suicide and escape watch in

> a children's

> psychiatric ward;

>

> * An 11-year-old girl on Paxil for two weeks was

> hospitalized after telling

> her mom " she wanted to hang herself from the ceiling

> fan. "

> * An 11-year-old boy " held a knife to his wrist and

> threatened to harm

> himself " two days after stopping Paxil.

>

> * A 14-year-boy on Paxil for two weeks became

> enraged, punched pictures,

> broke glass and suffered deep cuts. After his anger

> eased, " He expressed

> hopelessness and possible suicide thoughts. "

>

> In some cases, investigators working for Paxil

> manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline

> said the behavior was " possibly related " to taking

> Paxil; in others, they

> blamed the children's depression, mental disorder or

> family problems.

>

> In recent weeks, GSK has begun posting on its Web

> site some previously

> unpublished studies after state Attorney General

> Eliot Spitzer accused the

> company of fraud for withholding reports of kids who

> became violent or

> suicidal. But many documents remain privy only to

> GSK or under seal in

> lawsuits, sources said.

>

> The FDA has now asked a group of Columbia University

> doctors to review the

> reports to determine whether antidepressants may

> have triggered the suicide

> attempts and other dangerous behavior in children.

>

> Earlier this year, a scientist in the FDA's own

> Office of Drug Safety, Dr.

> Andrew Mosholder, found that kids on antidepressants

> became suicidal twice

> as often as kids on sugar pills.

>

> But FDA brass reacted coolly to his bombshell

> opinion. The agency forbade

> Dr. Mosholder to present his findings at a hearing

> in February or to discuss

> them, officials acknowledged.

>

> Mosholder told Senate investigators he was pressured

> to change his

> recommendation, but refused.

>

> " We feel that further research is needed before we

> come to a conclusion, "

> FDA spokeswoman Susan Cruzan told The Post. She

> called Mosholder's

> suicide-link " premature. "

>

> The FDA has warned doctors to beware of suicidal

> behavior when prescribing

> antidepressants to kids.

>

> In defending its pediatric trials, a spokesman for

> GSK said that " not a

> single person " of more than 1,000 patients committed

> suicide.

>

> " Any adverse event is taken seriously by the

> company, " spokesman Rick Koenig said Friday.

>

>

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