Psychiatric drugs behind 75 percent of all female suicides

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National data: Psychiatric drugs behind 75 percent of all female

suicides

 

Stockholm, Sweden 2/06/2008 10:19 PM GMT (TransWorldNews)

 

Newly uncovered data show that psychiatric drugs were behind 75

percent of ALL suicides among women (18-84) in Sweden (2006);

antidepressants were behind 52 percent.

 

The unique information is coming from the National Board of Health

and Welfare. It can be the first time that data on a national level

about ALL the psychiatric drug treatment preceding suicides, have

been revealed.

 

Among a total number of 377 women who committed suicide in 2006, 281

(75%) had filled a prescription for psychiatric drugs within 180 days

before their death.

 

The women were seeking help – and they got psychiatric drugs, said by

psychiatrists and pharmaceutical companies to prevent suicides and

cure depression.

 

There was no " lack of treatment " for the 377 women who committed

suicide: Almost one fifth (18%) got at least three psychiatric drugs

(antidepressants, neuroleptics, hypnotics/sedatives); 41% got at

least two.

 

The data revealed add to the just released directive from European

Medicines Agency, to include warnings about increased risk of

suicidal thoughts and behaviour for ALL antidepressants, not only for

children and adolescents, but also for young adults (see the British

MHRA, Implementation of warnings on suicidal thoughts and behaviour

in antidepressants, 4 February).

 

 

For years pharmaceutical companies have used a " blackmail strategy "

to get doctors and sad patients to believe that they MUST use the

drugs – or else. Leading psychiatrists with financial interests in

increased sales have been writing endlessly in medical journals about

the " protective effect " of antidepressants against suicide.

Shamelessly false statements that the psychiatric drugs correct a

chemical imbalance (such as a lack of serotonin) in the brain are

still part of the official drug labels.

 

But the new data from Sweden tell the real story: Psychiatric drug

treatment was part of 75 percent of ALL cases of suicide among women

(18-84) for the year 2006; they obviously did NOT correct any form

of " chemical imbalance " in the brain for these women.

 

The conclusion from the now revealed data could only be one: At best

psychiatric drugs, including antidepressants, do not prevent suicides

and, at worst directly cause them.

 

 

See also earlier article, Antidepressants behind 52 percent of all

suicides among women, http://www.transworldnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?

id=33878 & cat=10

 

Janne Larsson

 

reporter – investigating psychiatry

 

Sweden

 

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