PRESS RELEASE: BLACK BOX WARNING GIVEN TO ALL ANTIDEPRESSANTS

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Fri, 15 Oct 2004 11:47:49 EDT

Subject:PRESS RELEASE: BLACK BOX WARNING GIVEN TO ALL ANTIDEPRESSANTS

 

 

 

WONDERFUL NEWS!!! PLEASE GET THIS PRESS RELEASE OUT TO ALL THE MEDIA

IN YOUR AREA:

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FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

 

Ann Blake Tracy, Ph.D.,

Executive Director, International Coalition For Drug Awareness

Website: www.drugawareness.org

 

Office: 801-282-5282

Cell: 801-209-1800

 

FINALLY, after years of deadly drugs being available to children with

no warning of the danger of increased fatalities due to suicide, the

FDA issues a black box warnings for all antidepressants on the market!

 

This long overdue and many children have died or suffered serious

damage as a result of this lack of warning. Perhaps NOW doctors will

finally think before handing these drugs out like candy to children

and teens.

 

The scientific evidence behind this has been out there for decades.

All anyone ever had to do was read it. I explained that clearly in my

latest testimony before the FDA on September 13, 2004. I will include

that here.

 

I am Ann Blake Tracy, PhD, head of the International Coalition for

Drug Awareness. I am the author of " Prozac: Panacea or Pandora. "

[Financial disclosure] My house has been mortgaged to the hilt to pay

for the last 15 years that I have devoted to nothing but research on

SSRI antidepressants and to fund my trip here.

 

I have testified as an expert witness for twelve and a half years in

court cases involving these drugs.

 

Research on serotonin has been clear from the very beginning, that the

most damaging thing that could be done to the serotonergic system

would be to impair one's ability to metabolize serotonin, yet that is

exactly how SSRI antidepressants exert their effects. For decades

research has shown that impairing serotonin metabolism will produce

nightmares, hot flushes, migraines, pains around the heart, difficulty

breathing, worsening of bronchial complaints, tension and anxiety

which appear from out of nowhere, depression, suicide - especially

very violent suicide and repeated attempts, hostility, violent crime,

arson, substance abuse including cravings for alcohol and other drugs,

psychosis, mania, organic brain disease [brain damage], autism,

anorexia, reckless driving, Alzheimer's, impulsive behavior with no

concern for punishment, and argumentative behavior.

 

How anyone ever thought it would be therapeutic to chemically induce

these reactions is beyond me, yet these reactions are exactly what we

witnessed in our society over the past decade and a half as a result

of the widespread use of these drugs.

 

Can you remember two decades ago when depressed people used to slip

away quietly to kill themselves rather than killing everyone around

them and then themselves, as they do while taking an SSRI antidepressant?

 

A study out of the University of Southern California, in 1996, looked

at a group of mutant mice that had been genetically engineered. In an

experiment that had gone terribly wrong, they were the most violent

creatures they had ever witnessed. They were born lacking the MAOA

enzyme which metabolizes serotonin. The end result is the same as if

they were taking an SSRI antidepressant which does inhibit the

metabolism of serotonin.

 

This has been a national holocaust. It must end. These are extremely

dangerous drugs that should have been banned as similar drugs were in

the past.

 

As a society, we once thought LSD and PCP to be miracle medications.

We have never seen drugs so similar to LSD and PCP as these

SSRIantidepressants are.

All of these drugs produce dreaming during periods of wakefulness.

The higher serotonin levels overstimulate the brain stem leading to a

lack of muscle paralysis. That was seen clearly in the case of

comedian Phil Hartman and his wife in the terrible murder-suicide

[whose wrongful death suit has been settled by the makers of Zoloft].

 

Thank you.

 

Ann Blake Tracy, Ph.D.,

Executive Director, International Coalition For Drug Awareness

Website: www.drugawareness.org

Author: Prozac: Panacea or Pandora? - Our Serotonin Nightmare

& audio tape on safe withdrawal: " Help! I Can't Get Off My

Antidepressant! "

Order Number: 800-280-0730

 

Office: 801-282-5282

Cell: 801-209-1800

 

 

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews & storyID=6514877

 

US Orders New Warnings on Antidepressants for Kids

 

 

Fri Oct 15, 2004 10:35 AM ET

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - All antidepressants must come with tough

warnings explaining that the drugs increase the chances of suicidal

behavior in some children and teens, U.S. health officials said on Friday.

 

In an order to drug makers, the Food and Drug Administration said the

information to be highlighted in a black box must also state whether

the drug has, or has not been, cleared for use by children. Only Eli

Lilly and Co.'s Prozac is FDA-approved for treating pediatric depression.

 

© Reuters 2004. .