What's Everybody Mad About? - August 24 DC Protest Against the FDA

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[drugawareness] What's Everybody Mad About? - August 24 DC

Protest Against the FDA

 

 

 

 

Evelyn Pringle has done what a reporter should have done long ago -

publicly

published much of the testimony given at the FDA hearing in February 2004.

Please get this to your local media so that they can see what the FDA

saw and

heard before issuing the strongest warnings on antidepressants next to

banning

these drugs.

 

Dr. Tracy

______________________

 

Dr. Ann Blake Tracy, Executive Director,

International Coalition For Drug Awareness

www.drugawareness.org

Author of the " Bible on Antidepressants, " Prozac:

Panacea or Pandora? - Our Serotonin Nightmare

& audio " Help! I Can't Get Off My Antidepressant! "

(Order: 800-280-0730)

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August 24 DC Protest Against the FDA- What's Everybody Mad About?

 

Approving and marketing lethal drugs, while concealing the results of

studies

that reveal deadly side affects, should be a jailable offense.

 

by Evelyn Pringle

 

http://www.opednews.com

 

This conduct is not due to mistakes, it is representative of by now an all

too familiar pattern of criminal behavior by top officials within the

nation's

top regulatory agencies and the pharmaceutical industry.

 

This year Eli Lilly, was made to pay nearly $700 million to settle charges

that it did not warn consumers that the drug, Zyprexa, could cause

diabetes,

which resulted in grave injuries and death to 100s of people, but

nobody was

charged with a crime.

 

Ellen Liversidge will be at the DC rally. She lost her son due to Lilly's

crimes and she's none to happy about the fact that as part of the

settlement, the

plaintiff's attorneys agreed not let the public know about the extent of

Lilly's wrongdoing.

 

In February, 2004, people may have become a bit angry when they read

in the

San Francisco Chronicle that top FDA officials had ordered one of its own

researchers, who reviewed more than 20 trials, involving 4000

children, not to

disclose his findings that confirmed that SSRIs increased the risk of

suicide in

kids.

 

Another protest supporter, Vera Hassner Sharav, president of the

Alliance for

Human Research Protection, explains how a Harvard review of children's

charts, found that within 3 months of treatment on an SSRI

antidepressants, 22% of

the children suffered drug-induced adverse psychiatric effects, and

overall,

74% suffered adverse events during the course of treatment.

 

" The FDA has known for years, " she said, " but failed to reveal that

antidepressants consistently fail to demonstrate a benefit in

children. At least 12 of

15 trials failed. "

 

The FDA has also known that SSRIs increase the risk of suicide and

hostility

in children. As far back as 1996, an FDA review showed a " 7-fold greater

incidence of suicidality in children treated with Zoloft than adults, "

Vera

reports. She has accused the FDA of " foot dragging, equivocating, and

tinkering with

definitions while children are dying. "

 

Dr Donald Marks, MD, Ph D is a prescribing physician, a father, and a

former

associate director and director for clinical research for two

multinational

pharmaceutical companies. He says, " SSRI manufacturing and sales is

serious

business with tens of millions of patients in the U.S. and a market in

the tens of

billions of dollars. "

 

He contends, " that any attempt to decrease sales by increasing

warnings will

be met with severe organized resistance. "

 

According to Dr Marks, " SSRI manufacturers, such as Glaxo and Pfizer, have

conducted clinical trials in depressed children, many of which show no

efficacy

against placebo. "

 

" The seriousness and severe adverse event effects of SSRI drugs make their

use hardly justified in the majority of cases, " he added.

 

" My own prescribing experience with SSRI drugs, " Dr Marks said, " has

revealed

significant agitation and aggression, akathisia, activation of mania and

hypomania, increased depression, serious dependency and withdrawal

difficulties,

suicidal ideation, and toxic interactions with other drugs. "

 

The symptoms of SSRI toxicity can also be mistaken for the progression

of the

underlying mental state, " leading to use of more of the same and other

offending SSRI drugs rather than to withdrawal of the causative SSRI

agent, " he

warns.

 

While discussing the dangers of SSRIs, Rosie Carr Meysenburg, produced 3

handouts. The first was a personal letter from Dr Peter S Jensen, who

at the time,

was the head of Child & Adolescent Disorders Research Branch of the

National

Institute of Mental Health, which said that research indicates that

antidepressants for adolescents are not very effective.

 

The second document was a personal letter from Dr Larry S Goldman,

the American Medical Association, in which he wrote that physicians

have known

for many years the dangers of giving any antidepressants to patients with

certain disorders and there is a substantial risk of precipitating

mania or

psychosis.

 

The third was an article from the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry

researched

at Yale University which stated that 11% of all psychiatric hospital

admissions

were from antidepressant-induced mania and psychosis. It also noted

another

area of research showing that Prozac and other SSRIs can simulate the

effects

of LSD.

 

" In other words, " Rosie said, " this is saying for some people, taking

an SSRI

is the same as taking LSD. "

 

According to Rosie, " About two million people enter a psychiatric hospital

every year, 11% then is over 200,000 people a year who have an

antidepressant-induced psychosis and who are hospitalized, " she reported.

 

" Not all are hospitalized, " Rosie warns, " Some of them have either

committed

suicide, a homicide, or a murder/suicide. "

 

The truth is, nothing phases the greedy band of thugs involved in pushing

these lethal drugs for profit. Only when they see CEOs and government

officials

being marched off to prison, right along side of other murderers, will

they

knock it off.

 

Why are other protesters angry at the FDA and Big Pharma?

 

Allen Routhier is the main organizer of the event, let's look at his

reason.

 

In June 2002, Allen's wife, Diane, was suffering from abdominal pains,

nausea, indigestion, migraines, and backaches, and consulted her

physician. Even

though she had no history of depression, the doctor attributed her

problems to

stress and depression.

 

The question remains why, when according to all accounts, Diane was

known to

be a fun-loving, lively, upbeat person.

 

Without advising her of any side effects, her doctor sent her off with

sample

blister packs of Bupropion, a drug manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline, also

known as Wellbutrin. The packs contained no labels, no warnings, and

no indication

of any adverse effects or reactions that she may be experience while

taking

the drug.

 

Almost immediately after taking one pill, Diane became violently ill, with

diarrhea, nausea, shakes, and a fever. She also felt irritable, agitated,

anxious, dizzy and nervous.

 

On Friday, June 20, 2003, Diane felt terrible and called in sick to work,

which was highly unusual. On June 23 and 24, she was again bedridden

and suffered

from insomnia, nausea, headaches, toothaches, dizziness, and among other

things, diarrhea.

 

At approximately noon on June 25, her sister, Lynn, called and Diane cried

and said she did not feel well. At some point that afternoon, Diane

took a gun,

went to a corner of the basement, laid in a fetal position, put the

gun to her

head and pulled the trigger.

 

During the autopsy, the medical examiner discovered Diane had

gallstones, a

condition not diagnosed by her doctor, but which fit perfectly with the

symptoms she complained of.

 

Allen was left to explain a mother's death to their 2 young sons.

 

Jo Ann Kelly has been interested in raising awareness of the dangers

of SSRIs

ever since her son, David, died of a self inflicted gun shot wound

after he

was put on Lexapro for an anxiety diagnosis.

 

Several days before his death Jo Ann noticed increased agitation and a

dryness of skin. She feared he was not metabolizing the drug and

scheduled a

doctor's appointment which ended up being two days too late.

 

Another mother, Lisa Van Syckel, described how her daughter, Michelle, was

given Paxil for a diagnosis of depression and anorexia nervosa when

she actually

had Lyme Disease.

 

While on the drug, her mother watched as Michelle self-mutilated, became

psychotic, violent, and attempted suicide twice.

 

When she quit taking the drug she suffered severe withdrawal and was

constantly ill with flu-like symptoms, vomited blood, and had rectal

bleeding. On top

of all that, her friends at school called her " Psycho. "

 

Lisa maintains she was not able to make an informed consent decision on

behalf of Michelle because the drug maker withheld information on

Paxil's adverse

effects.

 

Another father, Tom Woodward, described how his oldest child, Julie, hung

herself while on Zoloft, when she had no history of self-harm and

there was no

depression or suicide in their family history.

 

The doctors said Zoloft was safe. " The possibility of violence,

self-harm, or

suicidal acts was never raised. The two and a half pages we received

with the

Zoloft never mentioned self-harm or suicide, " Tom said.

 

Julie had been excited about college and had scored high on her SATs a few

weeks before her death. However, " instead of picking out colleges with our

daughter, my wife and I had to pick out a cemetery plot for her, " Tom

said,

" instead of looking forward to visiting Julie at school, we now visit

her grave. "

 

He is very angry. " It is clear that the FDA is a political entity and its

leadership has protected the economic interests of the drug industry, "

he said,

" Under the Bush administration, the FDA has placed the interests of

the drug

industry over protecting the American public. "

 

He points out the fact that 86% of the millions of dollars in campaign

contributions by drug companies went to the Bush administration and

Republican

candidates. He wants to know, " what did Pfizer, Eli Lilly, and

GlaxoSmithKline

Beecham buy? "

 

According to Tom, top officials in leadership positions have strong

ties to

the industry. For instance, " FDA's chief counsel Daniel Troy has spent his

career defending the drug industry, " he said, " If a study does not

favor a drug,

the public never hears about it. "

 

Mark Miller and his wife Cheryl lost their 13-year-old son, Matt, after a

psychiatrist gave him Zoloft. They were told that Matt had a chemical

imbalance

that could be helped by a new, wonderful drug called Zoloft. " It was safe,

effective, only two minor side effects were cautioned with us - insomnia,

indigestion, " they said.

 

While on the drug, Matt became agitated, could not sleep, eat or sit

still.

The night before they were to leave on a family vacation, Matt hung

himself

from a bedroom closet hook, barely higher than he was tall.

 

" To commit this unthinkable act, " Mark said, " something he had never

attempted before, never threatened to, never talked about, he was able

to pull his

legs up off the floor and hold himself that way until he lost

consciousness. "

 

Mark and Cheryle have since learned that Matt's doctor has been " a

well-paid

spokesman for Pfizer, " maker of Zoloft.

 

Young Corey Baadsgaard was diagnosed with a social anxiety disorder,

and was

prescribed Paxil by his family doctor.

 

After a couple months, he started taking larger doses because it was not

working. A few months later, the doctor prescribed a medication called

Effexor,

and abruptly discontinued Paxil. Corey was supposed to gradually

increase the

dose of Effexor to 300 milligrams over 3 weeks.

 

The day he took the 300 milligram dose, Corey didn't feel well so he

stayed

home from school and went back to sleep. That evening he woke up in a

juvenile

detention center.

 

Unaware of what he had done, Corey said, " I asked one of the members

of the

juvenile detention center, and I found out that I had taken my

high-powered

rifle that I use for hunting to my third period class, took 23 of my

classmates

hostage and teacher hostage. "

 

Corey spent 14 months in jail, " not really knowing why I had been

there, not

really remembering anything that I had done, " he said.

 

" These drugs are hell, " his father Jay said, " look at what they have

done to

my son. "

 

Joyce Storey's son, Brian, was 17 years old when the family doctor

diagnosed

him with depression and gave him 14 Zoloft pills. He never warned

about side

effects and " even said if a person is drinking or doing drugs, that Zoloft

works well with them, " Joyce said.

 

Five days later, Brian killed a woman. After his arrest, authorities

found no

illegal drugs in his system, only Zoloft.

 

The psychiatrist that examined Brian after the event was Dr James

Merkangis,

a faculty member at Yale University. At the trial, he said Brian had a

manic

reaction to Zoloft and testified that Brian told him it was like being

in a

dream.

 

" The news media called my son the All-American boy, and he was, " Joyce

says.

He is now serving life without parole.

 

Six months after Brian's arrest, another boy at his school, Jeff Franklin,

took an ax to both of his parents and three of his brothers and

sisters while on

Prozac. Both of his parents died and Jeff is now serving two life

sentences.

 

" This is not a coincidence, " Joyce warns, " there is a common denominator,

teenager, severely depressed, on an SSRI antidepressant. "

 

" There are 13 million people on these drugs, 6 to 8 million are children, "

she said. " The question is why are we handing these drugs out like

candy, and

the answer is $17 billion a year business. " Joyce noted, " It is always

about

money. "

 

Jame Tierney was 14 years old when he was prescribed Effexor for migraine

headaches. After about a year, the drug lost its effectiveness and his

doctor

doubled the dose.

 

" For the next 9 months, " Jame recalled, " my life as I had known it was

gone.

I thought daily about suicide and hurting myself. I felt void of

normal emotion

s. I was so belligerent, agitated, and filled with hate - hate for my

family,

my friends, and most of all myself. Rage consumed me. I felt trapped, " he

said.

 

Jame did things totally out of character. " I had little control and little

inhibition, " he said, " It was as if I was watching a movie and some

villain was

destroying all the relationships around me. "

 

He spent most his time alone or else fighting with his parents. " They

would

ask what was wrong and what had happened to me, " Jame said, and " I

could not

answer them because I did not know or understand myself. I was terrified. "

 

He thanks God that his parents continued to search for answers. It was the

Effexor. It was not prescribed for depression and he had no history of

depression prior to taking the drug.

 

To counter the potential withdrawal effects, Jame was given Prozac,

and the

same personality and behavior problems were evident. The drug affected

him the

same way.

 

" I had never had these feelings before I took Effexor, " Jame said, " I have

never had these feelings since I stopped taking the Effexor and Prozac. "

 

The way Jame sees it, " Effexor took three years from me and I will

never get

them back. "

 

Donna Taylor's son, Mark, was shot between 7 to 13 times, at Columbine

high

school and nearly died.

 

Columbine shooter, Eric Harris, was on an SSRI at the time of the rampage,

just like the majority of other kids who have been involved in senseless

killings in recent years.

 

Mark Taylor points out that prior to the drastic increase in use of

psychiatric on kids, " this has never happened in the history of America. "

 

Shannon Baker does not complain about her daughter's side effects, adverse

reactions, or withdrawal symptoms, because her daughter is no longer

alive.

 

Shannon wants to be " the voice of all the other children who's voices have

been silenced by these drugs, " she said. She wants a ban on the use of

SSRIs

with children. " There needs to be no more senseless and needless

deaths because

of these drugs, " she said.

 

Dawn Rider, president of ASPIRE, gave this warning, " We have been

educated to

believe that mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders are caused by

chemical imbalances in the brain. The fact is that this is only

theory, and this

theory is pushed on us as if it were the absolute truth. "

 

Many people who believe this theory have become guinea pigs, " I know this

from personal experience, " Dawn said, " I trusted our family doctor when he

explained that depression is caused by a chemical imbalance. We

trusted him when he

determined that Paxil was right for my husband, and Prozac for my son. "

 

Dawn's 14-year-old son is now dead, and when they " discovered the problems

with these drugs, we decided it would be better for my husband to

suffer through

depression than end up dead like our son, " she said, " and we found out

that

he could not get off of Paxil. "

 

Her husband went through a year of hell before he was able to withdraw

from

the drug, and in the process, Dawn said, " it destroyed our marriage of

over 20

years.

 

Sara Bostock's daughter, Cecily, had only been taking Paxil for two weeks

when she died, during which time her condition had greatly worsened.

 

By the day of her death, Cecily was pale, unable to sleep, almost

unable to

converse, and was in a frightened, agitated state, jumping at the

slightest

noise.

 

" That night she got up and without turning on any lights, went into our

kitchen only feet from where I was half asleep, " Sara said, " She

stabbed herself

twice in the chest with a large chef's knife. The only noise was a

slight yelp

and a thump when she fell on the floor. "

 

This was a young woman who had everything to live for. She had just

completed

applications for grad school and had received a large pay increase the

month

before. She had a boyfriend who loved her, scores of wonderful friends

and had

never been suicidal.

 

Her autopsy revealed a high blood level of Paxil, which reflects poor

metabolization, a feature common in many SSRI suicide cases. " I

believe this induced

an intensely dissociative state, perhaps even sleepwalking, " Sara said.

 

" From accounts of people under the influence of these drugs, " she

explained,

" I believe SSRIs can alter consciousness in some mysterious and

frightening

way that is not normally seen even in mental illness. I am certain

this is what

happened to my daughter. "

 

" Untold thousands have died because of the drug companies and the FDA's

failure to heed the evidence over the past years, " Sara has discovered.

 

Cynthia Brockman's described the Zoloft-induced reactions that her son,

Chris, had experienced which ultimately resulted in a woman's death

and a life

sentence in prison for her son. She urges a ban on all SSRI use in

children.

 

Chris described " uncontrollable fits of anger, pitches and voices

setting him

off, not wanting to be touched, feeling horrible all over his body,

not being

in reality. " His reactions stopped, once he was off all SSRIs for about a

year, but restarted when he was put on Zoloft again.

 

" Prison doctors ignored warnings, forced him to take harmful drugs,

drugging

him into hallucinating, irrational, suicidal state, " Cynthia said.

 

She finally met with the Texas House Committee on Corrections who ordered

prison doctors to correct the crisis caused by the drugs which had

triggered

severe suicidal and homicidal symptoms for about 2 years while doctors

kept

starting and stopping her son's medications.

 

" Medical experts said Chris would not have been suicidal or homicidal

had he

not been reacting to SSRI drugs, " Cynthia said.

and Shivak's son Michael was 11 when he was given Paxil for

depression. They thank God he is alive after he tried to slash his

wrists in a

classroom at school.

 

" We thought we were doing the right thing, " his parents explain, " the

doctors

convinced us that taking these drugs was the only thing that we could

do for

Michael. "

 

" How could all the doctors not recognize what was happening? " Todd asks,

" Michael saw three different social workers, two different

psychiatrists, and went

through at least four

different emergency room psychological evaluations in two different

hospitals. "

 

" It is impossible to describe the pain and utter helplessness we all felt

watching Michael suffer, watch him cry, take up weapons against us,

and beg us to

let him die, " Todd said.

 

" Our daughter, Catherine, was 5 years old at the time, " he noted, " She

witnessed firsthand some of the most terrifying sights that I have

ever had to deal

with. "

 

" Our family is finally getting back to the loving family we once were, but

the fear of what happened still haunts us, " he added.

 

Pepper Draper, a Director of the International Coalition for Drug

Awareness,

reports that her child was put on Ritalin, and says, " we bought into

the whole

serotonin theory, so we were naturally raising that serotonin, which

unfortunately started causing him to become severely depressed and

suicidal. "

 

Fortunately, " we were able to finally understand the truth about

serotonin,

that raising serotonin and stopping the metabolism of it has caused

suicide and

aggression, and that is well documented, " she said.

 

Pepper believes that " if we will teach them the right ways to take care of

their bodies and cut out the things that are addictive, like these

medications

are, that we can help our youth learn to deal with what is going on in

their

lives. "

 

Leah Harris tells how much he suffered while taking Prozac, Paxil, and

Zoloft

from age 12 to 18. " I went from being a shy and mildly depressed, but

never

suicidal kid, to being overcome with thoughts of hurting and killing

myself

while on the SSRI drugs, thoughts which I acted on, " he said.

 

Since quitting SSRIs over a decade ago, he has never again

self-mutilated or

had suicidal

thoughts. " The suicidality simply vanished, " he said, and " this is clear

proof that the drugs must have played a role, and I am one of the

lucky ones, I

have survived to tell the tale. "

 

Leah believes that " Medical professionals and the public must be

informed of

the very serious risks that are associated with SSRIs. " He noted that

warnings

may negatively affect sales and not please the industry, but said,

" the FDA

was created as an independent regulatory agency to serve the interests

of the

American public, not Big Pharma. "

 

Grieving mother, Lorraine Slater says, " informed parental consent is only

possible as long as full disclosure is made by the pharmaceutical

companies, the

FDA, and the medical community. "

 

Her 14-year-old daughter is dead. " Dominique's life was taken from her

as a

result of drug-induced psychosis and suicidal ideations, not to

mention the

probability of experiencing akathisia, extreme agitation, " her mother

said.

 

She is having a very difficult time with acceptance. " How can you

imagine I

feel as Dominique's mother knowing now that I was slowly poisoning my

daughter

every day as I was dispensing her antidepressant medication including

Celexa

and which she made her first suicide attempt after being on it for

almost one

month, and effects of the last medication she was on when she did commit

suicide? " she asked.

 

She explains, " Dominique's mind and behavior were slowly being altered

to the

point that she became very agitated, irrational, ultimately suicidal,

because

none of the so-called medical professionals acknowledged the drug's

role in

her irrational and suicidal behavior or properly withdrew her from their

suicidal effects. "

 

" How can teenagers be allowed to be given antidepressants that were never

approved for adolescent consumption, only for adults? " Larraine wants

to know,

" How come the medical profession doesn't fully disclose the possible

harmful and

fatal effects of medication as well as watch carefully for diverse

effects on

its adolescent population? "

 

Terri Williams' son, Jacob, was an exceptional athlete who participated in

football on both the varsity and junior varsity football teams in

school. In

September 2000 Jacob lost interest in school activities except for his

interest

in football, but there was a conflict with his grades and his attendance.

 

As a result of the issue, his parents attended a school conference in

October

2000 at which the school administrator suggested that Jacob may be

depressed

and that they should seek medical help.

 

Terri contacted Jacob's pediatrician and made an appointment for that

afternoon. The doctor prescribed Prozac, and subsequently increased

the dosage three

weeks later.

 

Shortly after starting Prozac, " Jacob began to complain of having strange

dreams, which he had said were bad, " Terri said, " Shortly after the

dosage was

increased, I began to notice an aggressive behavior, which had not

been there

before. Jacob also became destructive and destroyed some of his favorite

things, " she noted.

 

His friends later told Terri that they had noticed the same behavioral

change, that he had become short tempered and showed a verbal

aggression that had

not been present before.

 

When questioned by Terri, Jacob stated " I don't know what is making me do

this. " Terri wrote it off as adolescent behavior and did not pursue

the matter

further.

 

On December 5th 2000, she discovered Jacob's body hanging from the

rafter in

their attic where he had hung himself with his own belt. He had left a

letter

on the ladder leading up to our attic thanking his parents for giving

him 14

years of a happy life.

 

" Had I know that this was a potential side effect, suicide, " Terri

said, " I

would have never allowed my son to take the drug Prozac. "

 

And the fact is, the FDA could have warned Terri about the drug,

because by

1998, Prozac alone had already accumulated over 40,000 adverse reaction

reports, including more than 2,100 deaths, under the FDA's adverse

reaction reporting

system, more than any other drug in history.

 

Glenn McIntosh introduces his 12-year-old daughter, Caitlin, with a photo

because it is all he has left. Caitlin committed suicide, 8 weeks

after being

prescribed Paxil and Zoloft.

 

She was a straight " A " student, a talented musician, artist, and poet, who

loved animals and wanted to be a veterinarian.

 

With the onset of puberty, this bright, sensitive girl who had once loved

going to school, started having trouble coping, as many kids do. She

was also

having problems sleeping due to a mild seizure disorder, her father

said, " We

wanted to help, of course, so we took her to our family physician, who

prescribed

her Paxil. "

 

Caitlin didn't do well on Paxil, so the doctor took her off it. A week

later

they saw a psychiatrist and he put her on Zoloft. " She then started having

strong suicidal ideations, along with severe agitation known as

akathisia and

hallucinations, and she was put in the adolescent ward of a mental

hospital to

" balance her meds, " Glenn said.

 

There things got worse as she was put on other psychotropic drugs to treat

the symptoms that Glenn now knows were caused by the SSRIs.

 

" Let me be very clear about something, " he said, " the dramatic and severe

symptoms that led to my daughter's suicide manifested only after she

started

taking antidepressant drugs. "

 

The downward spiral continued until Caitlin hung herself with her

shoelaces

in the school bathroom. " We were told that antidepressants like Paxil and

Zoloft were wonder drugs, that they were safe and effective for

children. We were

lied to, " Glenn said.

 

" The pharmaceutical companies have known for years that these drugs could

cause suicide in some patients. Why didn't we? " he wants to know.

 

Delnora Duprey is a grandmother who described how it had been over two

years

since she had seen her grandson Chris play ball, ride a bike, talk on the

phone, or run in to say, " Hey, grandma, what's for dinner? "

 

Chris is a tall, thin boy, quiet and well liked and respectful to

everyone,

" who loved his family dearly, and had hopes and dreams for a future, "

Delnora

said.

 

The family's nightmare began when Chris was diagnosed with depression, and

" placed on medication that was never tested on children and never

meant for

their use, " she said. He was first put on Paxil, but was switched to

Zoloft a

short time later.

 

The doctor increased the dosage to 200 milligrams and within 48 hours,

Chris

had shot and killed his other grandparents while they slept and burned

their

house down.

 

Today Christopher is sitting in prison facing incarceration for life, " a

child that does not even know what has happened to him, " his grandma said.

 

According to Delnora, he was a sweet boy who never hurt himself or anyone

else before.

 

Many readers might want to advise these people to go to government

officials

with these horror stories, the people who can punish drug companies

for hiding

adverse reactions and not warning people about the dangers associated with

drugs.

 

The problem is they already have. The tragic stories above were relayed to

officials during the February 2, 2004, FDA hearing.

 

Its now 18 months later, and needless to say, nobody has been punished.

 

Evelyn Pringle

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(Evelyn Pringle is a columnist for Independent Media TV and an

investigative

journalist focused on exposing corruption in government)