ACTION: Stop Drug Company Secrecy in Minnesota

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Sat, 15 Apr 2006 10:28:36 EDT

[drugawareness] URGENT!! ACTION NEEDED ASAP-Stop Drug Company

Secrecy in Minnesota

 

 

 

 

We need all Minnesota residents concerned about the dangers of

medications to sign this petition requiring disclosure of serious and

life threatening adverse effects of prescription drugs to be disclosed.

 

This bill has already passed the first committee and will be going to

the Minnesota Senate this week.

 

Signatures by Minnesota residents are urgently needed so that the

petition may be presented to the Senate making them aware of how many

residents are being adversely impacted due to this failure to warn.

 

Minnesota has some of the most high profile antidepressant-induced

tragedies in the country with comedian Phil Hartman's wife, Brynn

(Vickie Omdal), coming from Thief River Falls, MN, and Jeff Weise of

Red Lake, MN. In the case of Phil and Brynn Hartman far too many

STILL are unaware that this was another Zoloft-induced murder/suicide

and that this case has been settled ( " resolved " ) by Pfizer, the

makers of Zoloft.

 

And how many are fully aware of the Prozac-induced actions of young

Jeff Weise in the Red Lake school shooting where ten more died

needlessly?

 

Had Woody's Bill been passed years ago these are two more tragedies

that could have been avoided saving another dozen lives-the majority

of which DID NOT even take the medications themselves! This is

criminal on so many levels and must be stopped NOW.

 

Please pass this information on to start this type of full disclosure

by drug manufacturers.

Dr. Ann Blake Tracy, Executive Director,

International Coalition for Drug Awareness,

 

www.drugawareness.org_ (http://www.drugawareness.org) and author of

" Prozac: Panacea or Pandora? - Our Serotonin Nightmare " - the truth

about all antidepressant medications and the audio tape/CD " Help! I

Can't Get Off My Antidepressant! " (800-280-0730)

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" WOODY'S BILL "

Stop Drug Company Secrecy in Minnesota - Kim & Woody’s Story

 

Kim Witczak of Minneapolis knows who suffers when drug companies keep

clinical drug studies secret. In 2003, Kim's husband Woody began

taking the antidepressant Zoloft to reduce insomnia and stress.

 

Five weeks later Woody took his own life. He had no history of mental

illness or depression, and he was not warned that information from

clinical drug trials indicate Zoloft may cause suicidal behavior.

 

The Minnesota legislature is voting on a bill, SF 3342, requiring drug

companies selling prescription drugs in our state to release results

of all clinical safety trials to the public. Kim is now working to

prevent what happened to Woody from happening to others in Minnesota.

 

Kim has joined Consumers Union and the Minnesota Senior Federation's

campaign to pass this bill in Minnesota, and you can help.

 

Support Kim - Sign the Petition to End Drug Company Secrecy in Minnesota

 

Sign the petition below. Stand with Consumers Union, the Minnesota

Senior Federation, and Kim Witczak in supporting an end to drug

company secrecy.

 

Please provide your information below to sign the petition:

*

Name:

First

Last

*

Email:

Street 1:

Street 2:

*

City/State/ZIP:

City

State

ZIP

Phone Number:

Yes, I would like to receive free periodic consumer updates from

Consumers

Union.

Are you interested in volunteering?

 

 

 

 

http://cu.convio.net/site/PageServer?pagename=Rx_mnpetition & JServSessionId

 

r011=mnytdcy9f4.app14b

 

 

Petition text:

 

Volunteer - Join Our Statewide Campaign

Consumers Union is seeking volunteers from across Minnesota. Make

phone calls, attend events, knock on doors, put up flyers, and more.

Got some time to give?

 

_Sign Up To Volunteer_

(http://cu.convio.net/site/Survey?SURVEY_ID=2860 & ACTION_REQUIRED=URI_ACTION_USER\

_REQUESTS)

 

I stand with Kim Witczak and others in Minnesota that have been harmed

by drug company secrecy. Kim's husband, Woody, committed suicide

after taking the prescription drug Zoloft. He was not warned that

Zoloft could cause suicidal behavior.

 

I support SF 3342, a bill requiring drug companies to make public the

results of clinical studies of the drugs they sell in Minnesota. Drug

companies often hide data pointing to dangerous side effects of the

medicines they sell, keeping consumers in the dark about the safety of

the drugs they take.

 

Bills like SF 3342 could have saved the life of Kim's husband Woody. I

urge you to pass this bill to prevent incidents like this from

happening to others in Minnesota.