Attend a free public forum on antidepressant drugs - Mill Valley, California

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Dec 6 FORUM ON ANTIDEPRESSANT DRUGS

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A recent industry reports now show as much as a 25% reduction in U.S.

antidepressant prescriptions written due to growing public and

professional concern about their safety. The need for information on

benefits, risks, and viable alternatives is especially urgent now,

with depression rates at their highest in winter.

 

 

 

You are invited to attend a

 

PUBLIC FORUM ON ANTIDEPRESSANT DRUGS:

Risks, Benefits and Alternatives

 

Tuesday, December 6, 2005

7:00 p.m.

 

Mill Valley Community Center

180 Camino Alto, Mill Valley

 

Free Admission

 

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Forum Topics and Speakers:

 

Before and After Brain Scans of Conventional and Alternative Treatments:

-neuro-psychiatrist Dr. Brian Goldman, psychopharmacology

specialist at The Amen Clinic

 

Antidepressant Drug-induced Suicide Risks and Other Side Effects:

- Karen Barth Menzies, lead attorney for the upcoming first Zoloft

suicide trial; named a Lawyer of the Year by Lawyer¹s Weekly USA; has

testified for the FDA and met with Congress; and is the most quoted attorney on

the risks of antidepressants.

Los Angeles partner of Baum Hedlund.

 

Effective Holistic Treatments:

- Julia Ross, MA, MFT, author of The Mood Cure and Executive Director of The

Recovery Systems Clinic, Mill Valley.

and

- Beth McDougall, MD, Medical Director of the Clear Center of

Health, Mill Valley.

 

A Personal Experience with Paxil: Benefits, Side Effects, & Withdrawal:

- Cary Murphy, RN

 

For further information, call The Recovery Systems Clinic at

(415) 383-3611 x2

 

or go to http://www.moodcure.com/antidepfrm.html

 

Sponsored by nonprofit organizations Safe Harbor and Hawthorn Health &

Nutrition Institute, as well as The Recovery Systems Clinic and Clear Center of

Health

 

This event is wheelchair accessible.

 

Media contact: Christine Kraemer

(415) 927-2300

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