EFFEXOR/HOMICIDE-ANDREA FOUND NOT GUILTY & OUR VISIT TO HOUSTON LAST WEEK

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EFFEXOR/HOMICIDE-ANDREA FOUND NOT GUILTY & OUR VISIT TO HOUSTON LAST WEEK

 

By now most of you have heard that Andrea Yates was found not guilty by

reason of insanity today. Last week you all heard that there were six

of us from

ICFDA who went to the courthouse in Houston for a press conference in

support

of Rusty and Andrea Yates and also to publicly ask that the warning of

" homicidal thoughts " which was added to Effexor's label last November,

to be added

to the labels of ALL antidepressants.

 

After this first article on the new verdict you will see another article

with information on Effexor that ran in about 200 papers nationwide.

Next is my

testimony to the FDA given in September of 2004 explaining how these drugs

produce these horrifying effects. I would encourage all of you to get the

information in this newsletter to every local paper in this country

and around the

world! It is LONG past time for the world to learn what has happened

in this

tragic case!

 

Those who accompanied me to Houston were Amy Lubrecht from Ohio whose

husband Michael drowned their one year old son while under the

influence of

Effexor, Jay Baadsgard, from Washington state, whose son Corey, while

under the

influence of Effexor, held his class at gunpoint for 45 minutes and

five years

later still has no memory of doing it, Antonio Ortiz, whose fiance

shot and

killed her twin boys while withdrawing from Zoloft and starting Paxil,

John

Marsh, from Texas, whose son Paul killed his best friend while under the

influence of Paxil, and Jurgen Viktor, whose son Jared, after only six

days on Paxil

together with his girlfriend on Prozac stabbed an elderly friend 61 times.

All of us were there to let Rusty and Andrea know that they are FAR

FROM ALONE

in their drug-induced nightmare. This is going on nationwide -

worldwide and

needs to end.

 

But before I go on I want to make it VERY clear that I am SICK AND

TIRED of

the press beating up on Rusty Yates!!!! Rusty is an incredible human being

who has stuck by Andrea through all this in spite of losing all five

of his

children. Who can even begin to imagine the pain and suffering he has

endured?!

Andrea has not even had a chance to endure it because they have kept

her so

completely drugged up since that day. But Rusty has had to face the

reality

every day without his entire family. They are all gone. Where is the

compassion

for this man that should be there? He could not have seen this coming. He

was not a professional. In a similar case in Utah a father was

arrested for the

murder of his family after his wife stabbed and bludgeoned their three

children and stabbed herself to death while withdrawing abruptly from

two of these

antidepressants mixed with a steroid. Of course the father was found not

guilty and it was determined that the wife did this, but he spent four

months in

jail after losing his whole family. What horrific ordeals for these

fathers!!!

 

The fact is that Andrea was the third nurse in a three month period to

go to

court for killing her children while on an antidepressant. The other two

were married to doctors. One in Illinois on Zoloft killed two and one in

California on Prozac killed her three sons and shot herself in a

suicide attempt.

Then in the middle of Andrea's first trial a female doctor in Illinois on

Effexor stabbed her two sons, killing one and seriously wounding the

other. Then

in the middle of this second trial for Andrea a young mother in Ft

Worth, TX

on Zoloft drowned her one year old son. That is only to list a few.

 

Wyeth added the " homicidal thought " side effect to Effexor due to

PRE-marketing data - in other words they knew that homicide was

possible with their

drug BEFORE they ever marketed it. That would involve premeditation on

the part

of that company, would it not? Why would they be granted any more

slack than

the rest of the population? If they knew that Andrea drowning all five

of her

children was possible with their drug, why did they not disclose that? AND

if they knew that, WHY is Andrea the one who was on trial for murder?

Just a

few questions to hopefully make us ponder which direction we are going

in this

drug-induced insanity. [Keep in mind that this drug company is the same

company who cursed the world with Fen-Phen and Redux - how many people

did this

company kill with those drugs?]

 

These horrific antidepressant-induced murders are happening all around us

every day. This is why reading our local newspapers anymore is more like

reading news from a war zone than what we used to know as the America

we used to

call home. What I have witnessed over the past 16 years is enough to blow

anyone's mind. In fact I have had reporters at Court TV ask me to stop

telling

them about a case because they could no longer stand to listen to the

graphic

details (and that was only after sharing two which they had asked me

about!).

But after three Zoloft murder cases by young people back to back on

Court TV

the reporters are even asking out loud on the air, " What is this with

kids and

Zoloft? " These antidepressant-induced cases are very violent and very much

out of character cases that leave everyone shaking their heads.

 

The truth is that these drugs are much too similar in action to LSD or PCP

and the scientific research to show that is clear. Would anyone have been

surprised at Andrea's actions to learn that someone had been secretly

slipping

her LSD or PCP every day? Of course not!

 

 

Ann Blake Tracy, Ph.D.,

Executive Director, International Coalition For Drug Awareness

Website: _www.drugawareness.org_ (http://www.drugawareness.org/)

Author: Prozac: Panacea or Pandora? - Our Serotonin Nightmare

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Yates found not guilty in kids' deaths

Wed Jul 26, 2006 3:00 PM ET

 

By Wendy Grossman

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Texas mother Andrea Yates was found not guilty by

reason

of insanity on Wednesday in her second trial for drowning her five young

children in a bathtub in 2001.

The verdict was a sharp reversal of the one in Yates' 2002 trial when a

different jury convicted her of capital murder and sentenced her to

life in

prison.

Yates, 42, will not go free because of Wednesday's verdict, but will

be sent

to a state mental hospital for treatment. She will remain there until

state

District Judge Belinda Hill decides she is sane and safe enough to be

released, a process that could take years.

Yates, who is being treated with anti-psychotic drugs, looked stunned and

tears welled in her eyes when the verdict was read. She hugged defense

attorney

George Parnham, who also defended her in the first trial, before she

was led

away by a court bailiff.

" The right thing was done, " Parnham told reporters. " This case is almost a

watershed for mental illness and the criminal justice system. "

" It's a miracle, " tearful ex-husband Rusty Yates said of the verdict. " The

prosecution spent five years trying to come up with a motive in this

case and

missed the most obvious one -- that she was psychotic. " Frank, foreman of the six-man, six-woman jury agreed, saying that

while

some jurors wanted a finding of guilty, it was impossible not to see that

Yates was very ill.

" It was very clear to us all that (the doctors who cared for her) believed

she had psychosis before, during and after " the crime, he told reporters.

" I hope this will help to prevent something like this from every happening

again, " said Frank, a 33-year-old marketing manager.

Yates had to be retried after the 2002 conviction was overturned on appeal

because of flawed testimony by the prosecution's star witness.

HISTORY OF MENTAL PROBLEMS

Yates had a history of mental illness and suicide attempts when, on

June 20,

2001, she drowned Noah, 7, John, 5, Paul, 3, Luke, 2, and Mary, six

months,

one by one in the family bathtub while Rusty Yates was at his job at

NASA's

Johnson Space Center.

Witnesses for the defense said Andrea Yates suffered from a delusion

induced

by postpartum psychosis that drowning the children would spare them

from the

devil and damnation.

Prosecutors agreed that Yates was sick but said she was sane enough to

know

killing the children was wrong.

" We are extremely disappointed with the verdict, " lead prosecutor Joe

Owmby

told reporters.

Yates was being tried for the murder of only three of her children,

but Owmby

said he would recommend to District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal that he not

seek a trial for the other two.

The case became a cause celebre for women's groups and mental health

advocates, who said postpartum depression was inadequately treated in

many cases.

Betsy Schwartz, executive director of the Mental Health Association of

Greater Houston, said the verdict " reflected the growth in public

understanding "

of mental illness.

" It offers justice to a woman whose severe mental illness was never in

question, " she said in a statement.

In the first trial, prosecutors sought the death penalty for Yates, a

former

nurse and high school valedictorian, but the jury gave her a life

sentence.

Yates was in prison most of the past four years before her conviction was

thrown out because forensic psychologist Park Dietz testified for

prosecutors

that she might have gotten the idea for the crime from an episode of the

television program " Law and Order. "

It turned out that no episode similar to the case ever aired. Dietz

testified

again in this trial but did not repeat his false testimony nor did Hill

permit questioning about it.

Rusty Yates divorced Andrea last year and has remarried, but said they

remain

good friends who speak often of their lost children.

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Anti-depressant warning may help Yates

 

05:49 PM CDT on Wednesday, July 5, 2006

 

By JANET ST. JAMES / WFAA-TV

 

AP

Andrea Yates

Also Online

 

Janet St. James reports

 

Andrea Yates' treatment for post-partum depression

played a big role in her first murder trial. Now the

pills she was prescribed for depression may be the key

in her second defense.

 

The FDA in November quietly ordered a safety labeling

change for Effexor XR, a warning that in rare cases

patients will experience " homicidal " thoughts.

 

Harris HEB psychiatrist Cathal Grant has been treating

patients for depression for over 20 years.

 

He says many doctors probably don't know the warning

has been added to Effexor. But this extreme

side-effect doesn't surprise him either.

 

" Anyone who's suffered from severe depression will

know that it can cause anger and irritability at

times, and there are a certain percentage of those

people who may be homicidal, " said Dr. Grant.

 

Most anti-depressants do warn of side - effects

including suicidal thoughts, hostility,

aggressiveness, and manic reactions. Homicidal

thoughts are not on any other anti-depressant labels,

we could find.

 

Still, the vast majority of people take the medicine

safely. Defense attorneys will no doubt argue

Effexor's new labeling could prove Andrea Yates did

not.

 

E-mail _jst.james_ (jst.james) .

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Dr. Ann Blake Tracy's September 13, 2004 to the FDA

I am Ann Blake Tracy, PhD, head of the International Coalition for Drug

Awareness. I am the author of Prozac: Panacea or Pandora? - Our Serotonin

Nightmare and have testified in court cases involving antidepressants

for 12 1/2

years. The last 15 years of my life have been devoted full time to

researching

and writing about SSRI antidepressants.

Research on serotonin has been clear from the very beginning that the most

damaging thing that could be done to the serotonin system would be to

impair

one?s ability to metabolize serotonin. Yet that is exactly how SSRI

antidepressants exert their effects.

For decades research has shown that impairing serotonin metabolism will

produce migraines, hot flashes, pains around the heart, difficulty

breathing, a

worsening of bronchial complaints, tension and anxiety which appear

from out

of nowhere, depression, suicide - especially very violent suicide,

hostility,

violent crime, arson, substance abuse, psychosis, mania, organic brain

disease, autism, anorexia, reckless driving, Alzheimer?s, impulsive

behavior with

no concern for punishment, and argumentative behavior.

How anyone ever thought it would be " theraputic " to chemically induce

these

reactions is beyond me. Yet, these reactions are exactly what we have

witnessed in our society over the past decade and a half as a result

of the

widespread use of these drugs.

In fact we even have a whole new vocabulary as a result with terms such as

" road rage, " " suicide by cop, " " murder/suicide, " " going postal, "

" false memory

syndrome, " " school shooting, " " bi-polar " - every third person you meet

anymore - along with the skyrocketing rates of antidepressant-induced

diabetes and

hypoglycemia.

Can you remember two decades ago when depressed people used to slip away

quietly to kill themselves rather than killing everyone around them

and then

themselves as they do while taking SSRI antidepressants?

A study out of the University of Southern California in 1996 looked at a

group of mutant mice in an experiment that had gone terribly wrong. These

genetically engineered mice were the most violent creatures they had ever

witnessed. They were born lacking the MAO-A enzyme which metabolizes

serotonin. As a

result their brains were awash in serotonin. This excess serotonin is

what the

researchers determined was the cause for this extreme violence.

Antidepressants produce the same end result as they inhibit the

metabolism of serotonin.

These are extremely dangerous drugs that should be banned as similar drugs

have been banned in the past.

As a society we once thought LSD and PCP to be miracle medications with

large margins of safety in humans. We have never seen drugs so similar

to LSD and

PCP as these SSRI antidepressants. All of these drugs produce dreaming

during periods of wakefulness. It is believed that the high serotonin

levels over

stimulate the brain stem leading to a lack of muscle paralysis during

sleep

thus allowing the patient to act out the dreams or nightmares they are

having.

The world witnessed that clearly in the Zoloft-induced murder-suicide of

comedian Phil Hartman and his wife, Brynn.

Connecticut witnessed the Prozac-induced case of Kelly Silk several years

ago. This young mother attacked her family with a knife, then set the

house on

fire killing all but her 8 year old daughter who ran to the neighbors.

As she

stood bleeding and screaming for help she explained, " Help! My mommy is

having a nightmare! "

Out of the mouths of babes we will understand these nightmares for

what they

are. She understood that this was something her mother would do ONLY in a

nightmare, never in reality.

This is known as a REM Sleep Behavior Disorder. In the past it was known

mainly as a drug withdrawal state, but the largest sleep facility in

the country

has reported that 86% of the cases they are diagnosing are patients on

antidepressants.

Because this was known in the past as a condition manifesting mainly

in drug

withdrawal you should see how dangerous the withdrawal state from these

drugs will prove to be. That is why it is so critical to make sure

patients are

weaned EXTREMELY slowly so as to avoid ANY chance of going into a

withdrawal

state

_________________

 

Mark Taylor's September 13, 2004 to the FDA (first boy shot at Columbine

High School)

I am Mark Allen Taylor and I am a victim of the SSRI antidepressant era. I

took six to thirteen bullets in the heart area in the Columbine High

School

shooting when Eric Harris on Luvox opened fire that now infamous day.

They almost had to amputate my leg and my arm. My heart missed by only one

millimeter. I had three surgeries. Five years later I am still

recuperating.

I went through all this to realize that SSRI antidepressants are dangerous

for those who take them and for all those who associate with those who

take

them.

I hope that my testimony today shows you that you need to take action

immediately before more innocent people like me, and you, do not get

hurt or die

horrible deaths as a result.

As Americans we should have the right to feel safe and if you were doing

your job we would be safe. Why are we worrying about terrorists in other

countries when the pharmaceutical companies have proven to be our

biggest terrorists

by releasing these drugs on an unsuspecting public?

How are we suppose to feel safe at school, at home, on the street, at

church

or anywhere else if we cannot trust the FDA to do what we are paying

you to

do? Where were you when I and all of my classmates got shot at Columbine?

You say that antidepressants are effective. So why did they not help Eric

Harris before he shot me?

According to Eric they " helped " him to feel homicidal and suicidal after

only six weeks on Zoloft. And then he said that dropping off Luvox

cold turkey

would help him " fuel the rage " he needed to shoot everyone. But he

continued

on Luvox and shot us all anyway.

So, why did these so called antidepressants not make him better? I

will tell

you why. It is because they do not work.

We should consider antidepressants to be accomplices to murder.