Drug, Prozac Approval Flawed: Suicide Link Was Known Before FDA

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Dear Alabama Governor Bob Riley,

Thank you again for removing Alabama Department of Mental Illness and

Retardation Commissioner Kathy Sawyer. It is my understanding that her last

day was yesterday. I made a request for an investigation into the Madison

County Mental Health Center violating my Mother's civil right according to

her Authorization to Release Information to have her medication changes

faxed to me with Asst. Commissioner Kim Ingram 6/17/03 and Director of

Community Programs Molly Brooms 6/16/03. Commissioner Sawyer did not

properly investigate this complaint. Please add this information regarding

the fact that

Eli Lilly the manufacturers of Prozac knew as early as 1984 before the drug

was approved by the FDA that Prozac can cause suicide. My Mother never told

me that she'd been warned by the psychiatrists at the Madison County Mental

Health Center that any of the drugs they were prescribing could cause

suicide. She assured me that she had been told that none of the drugs were

addictive or caused withdrawal symptoms if she wanted to get off them.

Governor Riley, February 6, 2005 will be the three year anniversary of the

suicide of Alma Virginia Sanders. Please don't let what happened to my

Mother happen to any of your other constituents if they are prescribed

psychiatric drugs that can cause suicide without their informed consent. If

the humanitarian concern for protecting life is not motivation enough,

please consider the long term financial risk to which you will be subjecting

the State of Alabama if " consumers " of Mental Health Community Programs are

prescribed suicidal medications on a voluntarily basis or involuntarily

committed Alabamians are involuntarily forced to ingest or be injected with

drugs that can cause suicide and they do so under that drugs influence. To

protect the State of Alabama from future litigation costs and possible

settlements for being prescribed medications without informed consent as was

Alma Virginia Sanders.

Dr. Gary Portier, Dr. John Hancock, Dr. Trevor Linsey and Dr. Gannuch of the

Madison County Mental Health Center successfully accomplished their goal of

depriving me of notice of her medication changes to conceal from me the time

when the side effects would be greatest by disrespecting her directive to

fax me the changes because the drugs had made erh too memory imparied and

cognitively dysfunctional to remember to tell me herself. That was a

violation of Alabama State Statutes mandating the provision of medical

records before HIPPA went into effect in April 14, 2003.If doctors are going

to decide to refuse to give medical records to family members whom a patient

has signed an Authorization to Release Medical information they should be

required by law to notify that concerned family member and not just passive

agressively refuse to send the information repeatedly causing much emotional

duress and mental anguish that is not good for the " mental health " of either

their " Consumer " or their family. If your new Commissioner does not re-open

my request for an investigation and conduct a scientific investigation

starting with allowing me to see the records that Commissioner Sawyer was

provided by the Maidson County Mental Health Center to confirm or deny if

the records they allege I recieved were actually recieved and if all the

faxes they recieved from me have been truthfully and accurately retained in

the file, you Board and Department of Mental Illness and Retardation will be

failing to regulate that community program in the best interests of the

public health. If the Madison County Mental Health Center is not reprimanded

for their intentional and self-serving violation of her civil right for her

medication changes to be faxed to me EVERY TIME, it is the Alabama

Department of Mental Illness and Retardation that is continuing to allow the

Madison County Mental Health Center to be a threat to the " consumers " " life

and health " . If millions of dollars are going to be generated by the Alabama

Dept. of Mental Illness & Retardation in revenue involuntarily committing

Americans who are a threat to others, themselves or their health, you have

not only a legal but a moral duty to make sure that the executive Department

into which your constitutents are committed is not a threat to life and

health. While Mother was under the influence of psychiatric medications that

have suicide as a side effect she went to the Tennessee River Bridge to jump

of in the Spring of 2001. She decided that she would stop taking her cancer

medicine for the cancer that could have been cuased by psychiatric

medications instead. While the psychiatrists at the Madison County Mental

Health Center were intentionally refusing to fax me her medication changes

with my intent to ensure medication compliance, she was going to them

monthly commiting suicide in front of them while they were not ensuring

medication compliance. It is my understanding that counselors at the public

Mental Health Centers are not required to be licensed in anything and that

all persons who go to these counselors to talk about their prohlems are

referred to psychiatrists and that all are prescribed psychiatric

medications. It is my understanding that the psychiatrists employed by the

Mental Health Centers regulated by the Alabama Department of Mental Illness

do not have to be licensed by the Alabama Board of Medical Examiners and are

regulated by the ADMH/MR Commissioner. I send you many, many e-mails and I

never get a response. I would really, really appreciate the courtesy of a

response to this issue and a resonse to my June 16, 2003 request to be

informed of the time and dates of and an all PUBLIC meetings in the ADMH/MR.

It's too late to help Alma Virginia Sanders. It's not too late for

you to help your other constituents whose civil right to have their records

provided to their families according to the Authorization to Release Medical

Information or Medical Power of Attorney. Please make this issue a top

priority and introduce legislation on your own initiative to not let happen

to my Mother happen to any more of your constituents. If the Alabama

Department of Mental Health and Retardation is going to dispense medicasion,

prescribe medications, involuntarily administer or in any way encourage your

constituent to ingest or be injected with a medication that has suicide as a

side effect, they should have the right to be informed that suicide is a

side effect before it is introduced into their brain chemistry. I implore

you not to delay in taking action in this life or death issue on your own

initiative either through executive order, admendments to the administrative

rules and regulations, introducing legislation through your floor leader,

Jeb Little, with whom I have personally met and briefed or simply taking

measures that the law that is already in the statutes is no longer allowed

to be violated by the Alabama Dept. of Mental Health and Retardation.

 

My Mother, Alma Virginia Sanders, would really have apprecaited it and so

would I.

Please do not let any more unnecessary suffering be caused by the

psychiatric drugs financed and/or prescribed by the Alabama Department of

Mental Illness. Mother was never suicidal before she took those drugs and

she never exhibited many of the other side effects that I observed while she

was being biochemically altered mentally, physically and in her behavior.

She just went to the Madison County Mental Health Center to talk to a

counselor.

Why can't the Mental Health Centers provide counselors for people to talk to

without that counselor always refering that patient to a psychiatrists that

always prescribes psychiatric drugs?

Isn't there any other form of " health care " that the State of Alabama can

provide for " depression " other than drugs that can cause the " consumer " to

have the side effects of suicide, tardive dyskinesia, homocide, cognitive

dysfunction, staggering gait, memory loss, agressive behavior, etc.?

Isn't it time for state governments to start demanding that the FDA have

research done for medications that do not require so much suffering to get

" help " sothat state budgets are not overwhelmed with ever escalating demands

for funds to support the ever increasing numbers of psychiatric drug

consumers when the paridym is to get the patients on the drugs and keep them

on the drugs for the rest of their lives regardless of the effectiveness of

the treatment?

Isn't it time for the State of Alabama not only to stop refusing to

investigate complaints of iatrogenic psychiatric medicaion suicide as did

Commissioner Kathy Sawyer, Asst. Kim INgram, Community Programs Director

Molly Brooms, Sr. Advisor John Houston, Advocate Director John Houston,

Administrative Assistent Beth Seivers and the Asst. A. G. General Counsel

but to take a pro-active investigational inquiry into the suicides being

committed in Alabama and how many of them are being committed under the

influence of psychiatric medications and which ones?

The ADMH/MR official seal professes to do research. Shouldn't the ADMH/MR

research if the drugs funded by the taxpayers reported to be $12

MILLION/YEAR and recommended to non-indigents to purchase at their own

expense with Medicare funded psychiatric visits to Mental Health Centers are

causing YOUR constituents to commit suicide?

Isn't it time for hte ADMH/MR to require all psychiatrists to report

whatever psychiatric medications a patient was being prescribed to the

medical examiners to be included on the death certificate and forward this

data to the FDA for their consideration after the FDA hearings in SEpt. 2004

reporting that antidepresents are causing CHILDREN to commit suicide?

Thank you,

Dr. Sandra Lance, D.C.

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Saturday, January 29, 2005 8:51 AM

Health Supreme Update: Prozac Approval

Flawed: Suicide Link Was Known Before FDA

 

 

 

 

 

28 Jan 2005 18:22:36 -0000

 

Health Supreme Update: Prozac Approval Flawed: Suicide Link

Was Known Before FDA OK

 

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Health Supreme Update: Prozac Approval Flawed: Suicide Link Was Known

Before FDA OK

 

January 28, 2005

 

 

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The British Medical Journal has apologized to Eli Lilly for

implying in a recent article that scientific documents about

Prozac's side effects had " gone missing " during a legal case

some years ago, as reported by BBC today. But here is the

important data that almost get drowned out by the noise over a

largely irrelevant point: Eli Lilly, as the maker of Prozac,

has been aware of serious side effects even before obtaining

the FDA's approval for the drug. " The documents reveal that as

early as 1984-years before the FDA approved the

drug-Lilly knew or should have known that Prozac

frequently induced severe adverse side effects, including

" activation " and suicidality " ,...

 

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