SSRI WARNING.....PUBLIC NOTICE

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S S R I W A R N I N G

 

P U B L I C N O T I C E

 

 

There is a class of drugs on the market for depression, anxiety, and

a host of

other mental health problems known as Selective Serotonin Reuptake

Inhibitors,

or SSRIs. You have heard of them: Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, Luvox,

Celexa...

to name just a few...

 

If you are currently on one of these drugs, or if someone has

mentioned to you

that you should get on one of these drugs (your family physician,

your friend,

your relative), this notice is especially for you.

 

SSRI theory is based on findings that depressed people have lower

levels of the

metabolite of the neurotransmitter serotonin. SSRI drugs block the re-

uptake of

serotonin in the brain, and thus, the level of serotonin increases in

the brain,

bringing about the " proper " neurotransmission necessary to alleviate

the

depression. This is a horribly flawed theory!

 

Some of what the companies manufacturing these SSRI's, and what

doctors

prescribing this medication will very likely NOT tell you is this:

 

The Merriam-Webster online dictionary defines serotonin as, " a

powerful

vasoconstrictor " , which is what it was discovered to be in 1948. A

vasoconstrictor is an agent which constricts blood vessels and blood

flow.

So while shoring up enough of the neurotransmitter serotonin in the

brain to

alleviate depression, the person taking one of these drugs is also

shoring up

enough of the vasoconstrictor - serotonin, to substantially decrease

blood

flow in the brain- a serious and sometimes deadly oversight.

 

And, as the delicate chemical balances in each of our brains is as

unique to

each person as his or her fingerprints, it's no surprise the adverse

reactions

reported with these drugs can vary to extremes. Some people have

seizures while

either actively taking, or while withdrawing from these drugs. Some

people have

had strokes after taking them, due to the vasoconstrictive action of

too high a

serotonin level. Some experience a complete personality change.

 

But another serious casualty of this decrease in blood flow concerns

the area

of the brain responsible for self-control. This is why nearly every

time you

hear of some random, violent act such as a school or office

shooting, the

people going into these homicidal rages have been found to be on an

SSRI

over 95% of the time.

 

Columbine High School? One of those kids was taking Luvox. The

Atlanta day

trader who shot up his office? Prozac. Kip Kinkel? Prozac. Michael

McDermott

in Boston? Paxil and Prozac. Phil Hartman's wife Brynn had been

taking Zoloft

before killing her husband and herself. These are just to name a

few.

 

A jury in Gillette Wyoming determined that Paxil was to blame for a

triple

murder/suicide. The plaintiffs have been awarded an $8 million

dollar

settlement in this case which just hit the media during the first

week of

June 2001. Unfortunately a money settlement, no matter how large can

ever

bring back four precious human lives! In another case in Australia,

a supreme

court judge found Zoloft to be the reason a fellow murdered his wife

of over

30 years... For every one of those incidents you have heard about,

there are

fifty such incidents that didn't make the national news. But

wouldn't the FDA

keep something like this off the market?

 

No. There is simply too much political and financial interest in the

profits

from these drugs. Your consumer protection when it comes to this

class of drugs

are just not there. People within the FDA who have dared to voice

opposition to

these drugs during the approval processes have found themselves

without their

jobs.

 

During trials to determine the safety of Prozac, when subjects were

reported to

have become suicidal on the drug, a memo surfaced, ordering the

language in the

report changed from " suicidal " to " depressed " .

 

Further, the FDA issues " conflict of interest waivers " to drug

company doctors

and researchers during the approval processes for these drugs. For

example, in

the case of Paxil, every single one of the " experts " on the panel

with the

authority to approve or disapprove Paxil had been granted

this, " conflict of

interest waiver " by the FDA director.

 

As a result, Paxil was approved as safe. Safe, for say, a mother of

four driving

her kids down the interstate at 75 mph - while the Federal Aviation

Administration

will not grant a pilot's license to anyone on Paxil, because the

seizures and

sudden involuntary movements it can cause may cause a pilot to crash

a plane.

 

We say SSRI's are NOT safe, and there is account upon account to back

it up.

Just who are `WE', you might be asking yourself... We are a group of

people who

have taken these drugs, only to have them upend our lives in a

variety of some

of the worst ways imaginable. And we want you to know what they do.

 

For further information, please see the following websites and the

links they

offer:

 

http://www.drugawareness.org/home.html

http://www.prozactruth.com

http://www.justiceseekers.org http://www.breggin.com

http://nomorefakenews.com http://www.adhdfraud.org

http://www.nofreelunch.org http://www.pssg.org

 

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