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Friday, March 12th, 2010
Bounty
March 12, 2010
Women expecting a baby have been warned over taking Prozac while they are pregnant, after a new study found it could be harmful to an unborn child.
According to a study from the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency there is a “small risk” of babies developing heart problems should their mother take the drug early on in their pregnancy.
The researchers behind the study said that pregnant mothers who use Prozac could be twice as likely to have children with a congenital heart problem, such as a murmur, or a hole in the heart.
Read entire article: http://www.bounty.com/node/2191
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Tags: congenital heart problem, heart problems, hole in the heart, Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, murmur, Pregnancy, pregnant women, prozac
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Monday, March 8th, 2010
IndyStar.com
John Russell
March 8, 2010
Eli Lilly and Co. has agreed to add four new senior positions to “promote highly ethical and compliant behaviors” as part of a settlement of two lawsuits arising from the company’s illegal marketing and promotion of several drugs.
The Indianapolis drugmaker also has agreed to upgrade its policies and procedures to ensure that patient safety “shall be of paramount importance,” according to a government filing the company made today.
Last year, Lilly paid $1.4 billion, the largest criminal fine ever imposed on a U.S. corporation, over the illegal marketing of Zyprexa. The company also pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor and agreed to additional oversight to resolve a 5-year-old federal investigation.
Federal prosecutors had said Lilly unlawfully promoted Zyprexa for agitation, aggression, hostility, dementia, depression and generalized sleep disorder, although the drug was approved only for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
The company had also improperly marketed Evista, its osteoporosis drug, and Prozac, its antidepressant.
In response, several shareholders sued the company, claiming it breached fiduciary duty in connection with the illegal marketing, exposing Lilly to substantial risk of damage. The suits are known as “derivative claims” as they were brought by shareholders on behalf of the company, rather than on behalf of shareholders, seeking to force the company to take corrective steps.
Read entire article: http://www.indystar.com/article/20100308/BUSINESS/3080383/Eli-Lilly-adding-four-ethics-watchdogs
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Tags: bipolar, dementia, Eli Lilly, illegal marketing of drugs, prozac, schizophrenia, Zyprexa
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
The Huffington Post
By Peter Breggin
March 3, 2010
On February 24, 2010 the Veterans’ Affairs Committee of the U. S. House of Representatives chaired by Bob Filner (D-CA) held hearings on “Exploring the Relationship Between Medication and Veteran Suicide.” Military suicides have risen rapidly in recent years at the same time that the prescription of antidepressants and other psychiatric drugs has escalated. The hearing focused on the dangers of the newer antidepressants like Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, Celexa, Lexapro, Cymbalta, and Effexor.
Starting in the early 1990s, I was the first psychiatrist to write and speak extensively about the newer antidepressants causing suicide, violence, and mania. It was gratifying when Rep. Filner decided to hold the hearings after reading my new book, Medication Madness: The Role of Psychiatric Drugs in Cases of Violence, Suicide and Crime (2008) and called me as his lead witness. I presented scientific evidence that antidepressants cause suicide, violence and mania. I also emphasized the profound danger of prescribing drugs that cause impulsivity, hostility and suicidality to heavily armed young men and women under stress on active military duty. I recommended that the armed services curtail the use of these drugs and rely instead on psychotherapeutic and educational processes that have already proved effective. I also called for additional research in the military and the VA concerning suicide and violence caused by antidepressants.
There is scant evidence for the effectiveness of antidepressants, and overwhelming evidence for their harmfulness. The military is already moving toward the implementation of better educational programs to help active duty soldiers handle stress. These educational programs, and counseling, need to replace the use of psychiatric drugs.
Read entire article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-peter-breggin/congressional-hearings-on_b_480613.html
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Tags: antidepressants, Bob Filner, celexa, Cymbalta, effexor, Lexapro, military suicides, Paxil, prozac, Veterans' Affairs Committee of the U. S. House of Representatives, Zoloft
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Friday, February 19th, 2010
Natural News
By David Gutierrez
February 19, 2010
Women who take certain antidepressant drugs while pregnant may double their child’s risk of being born with a certain variety of heart defect, according to a study conducted by researchers from Aarhaus University in Denmark and published in the medical journal BMJ.
“Anyone who is pregnant or considering becoming pregnant and has any concerns about the treatment for depression should speak to their doctor,” said Cathy Ross of the British Heart Foundation.
Researchers compared the risk of birth defects in 1,370 children born to women who took at least one selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) while pregnant with the risk in 400,000 other children whose mothers had not taken any SSRIs while pregnant. They found that the drugs fluoxetine (marketed as Prozac), sertraline (marketed as Zoloft) and citalopram (marketed as Celexa) all significantly increased the risk that a child would be born with a defect in the septum, which separates the right and left halves of the heart.
Septum defects include a variety of conditions from minor blood vessel problems to outright holes in the heart. The researchers found that one extra septum defect would develop for every 246 pregnant women taking an SSRI during the time period from 28 days before through 112 days after conception.
Taking more than one SSRI drastically increased the risk of septum defects. While the risk of the defects was 0.5 percent in mothers not taking the drugs and 0.9 percent in those taking one drug (an 80 percent increase), it was 2.1 percent in mothers taking two or more (a more than 300 percent increase).
Read entire article: http://www.naturalnews.com/028202_antidepressants_heart_defects.html
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Tags: antidepressants, birth defects, BMJ, British Medical Journal, celexa, heart defect risk, pregnant women, prozac, Zoloft
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Thursday, January 28th, 2010
AttorneyAtLaw.com
January 27, 2010
Taking Prozac, Paxil, or other antidepressants from the class of drugs called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) can cause delays in lactation in new mothers and difficulty in breast-feeding newborns, a new study says.
Researchers from the University of Cincinnati found SSRIs can result in delayed secretory activation after giving birth. SSRIs regulate the hormone serotonin in the body to stave off depression, but the hormone also is crucial to the breasts’ ability to deliver milk when it is needed, the study’s authors said.
A delay in breast milk production caused by taking SSRIs can “impact serotonin regulation in the breast, placing new mothers at greater risk of a delay in the establishment of a full milk supply,” the study found.
The study’s findings are troubling because millions of people take Prozac, Paxil, and other brands of SSRIs to treat a variety of depression-related disorders. Paxil and other SSRI drugs have been linked before to other serious health complications, including heart-related birth defects and pre-term labor.
Read entire article: http://www.attorneyatlaw.com/2010/01/prozac-and-paxil-can-cause-breast-feeding-problems-new-study-says/
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Tags: birth defects, delays in lactation, depression, Paxil, pre-term labor, prozac, SSRIs
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Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
S.L. Baker
NaturalNews.com
January 13, 2010
As NaturalNews has previously reported, the U.S. is a nation seemingly hooked on mind-altering drugs. A study released last fall in the Archives of General Psychiatry documented a dramatic increase in the use of antidepressant drugs like Prozac since l996. In fact, these medications are now the most widely prescribed drugs in the U.S.
Think Americans are maxed out on the number of psychiatric meds that huge numbers of them are taking? Think again. A new report says U.S. adults are increasingly being prescribed combinations of antidepressants, anti-anxiety and antipsychotic medications — and they could be experiencing serious side effects as a result.
The study, published in the January edition of Archives of General Psychiatry, investigated patterns and trends in what is known as psychotropic polypharmacy, meaning the prescribing of two or more psychiatric drugs. Ramin Mojtabai, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., of the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and Mark Olfson, M.D., M.P.H., of Columbia University Medical Center and the New York State Psychiatric Institute, examined data gathered from a national sample of office-based psychiatry practices. In all, the researchers looked at the medications prescribed between 1996 and 2006 during more than 13,000 office visits to psychiatrists by adults.
Read entire article: http://www.naturalnews.com/027932_polypharmacy_psychiatric_drugs.html
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Tags: antidepressants, Archives of General Psychiatry, mind-altering drugs, prozac, psychiatric drugs, psychiatry, psychotropic polypharmacy, SSRIs
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Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
Jane Feinmann
The Daily Mail
January 12, 2010
Just a few years ago, Yasmin Miller would have been horrified by the suggestion she might take antidepressants for the rest of her life. But today, the 37-year-old can barely imagine a future without this daily chemical boost.
Yasmin’s ‘perfect’ life as a corporate tax adviser was shattered when, in 2003, she developed severe depression. Although incapacitated by the illness, she needed convincing that a pill could make a difference.
‘I was gobsmacked when my GP suggested antidepressants, because I thought they were addictive,’ she recalls. ‘But now I’ve changed my mind: depression is just like epilepsy or diabetes or any other illness where you need to take a daily pill for life in order to stay healthy.’
Just 20 years after the launch of the ’sunshine drug’ Prozac, Yasmin is one of hundreds of thousands of young women who can’t imagine life without antidepressants.
But some experts are warning of disturbing parallels with the ‘mother’s little helper’ scandal of the Seventies and Eighties, when thousands of women became addicted to widely prescribed tranquillisers, including Valium.
Read entire article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1242502/Hooked-happy-pills-Internal-bleeding-Strokes-Birth-defects-The-long-term-effects-antidepressants-terrifying.html
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Tags: anti-depressants, antidepressants, birth defects, David Healy, internal bleeding, Paxil, prozac, Seroxat, SSRIs, stroke, Zoloft
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Friday, January 8th, 2010
Lennard Davis
Psychology Today
January 7, 2010
For the past five years, and in my recent book OBSESSION: A HISTORY, I have been questioning the effectiveness of Prozac-like drugs known as SSRIs. I’ve pointed out that when the drugs first came out in the early 1990’s there was a wildly enthusiastic uptake in the prescribing of such drugs. Doctors were jubilantly claiming that the drugs were 80-90 per cent effective in treating depression and related conditions like OCD. In the last few years those success rates have been going down, with the NY Times pointing out that the initial numbers had been inflated by drug companies suppressing the studies that were less encouraging. But few if any doctors or patients were willing to hear anything disparaging said about these “wonder” drugs.
Now the tune has changed.
Reason One: A study in the Journal of the American Medical Association says that SSRI’s like Paxil and Prozac are no more effective in treating depression than a placebo pill. That means they are 33 per cent effective, which is the percent of patients who will respond well to a sugar pill. The article goes on to say that although SSRI’s are effective to some degree in treating severe depression they don’t have any effect on the routine type of depressions they are most often used to treat. The take-home message is–don’t take SSRI’s if you have normal, mild, or routine depression. It’s a waste of money, and the drugs have serious side-effects including loss of sexual drive.
Reason Two: A January 4 article in MedPage Today cites a study done at Columbia University and Johns Hopkins. The study says that doctors routinely prescribe not one but two or three SSRI’s and other psychopharmological drugs in combination with few if any serious studies to back up the multiple usage.
Read entire article: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/obsessively-yours/201001/five-reasons-not-take-ssris
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Tags: AMA, American Medical Association, antidepressants, Columbia University, dsm, John Hopkins, Paxil, placebo, prozac, SSRIs, sugar pill
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Monday, January 4th, 2010
Martha Rosenberg
OpEdNews.com
January 3, 2010
With our national love of drugs, sex, celebrities and violence you’d think SSRIstories.com would be more popular.
The 12-year-old web site lists 3,500 crime related news reports linked to the use of SSRI antidepressants with celebrities like Wynona Ryder, Heath Ledger, Brittany Murphy, Anna Nicole Smith, Heather Locklear, Glen Campbell, Carrie Fisher, Sharon Osbourne, Phil Hartman, Princess Di’s driver, Patrick Swayze’s Sister, O.J. Simpson and the Crown Prince of Nepal generously sprinkled in.
You can search and sort stories by drug–Lexapro, Celexa, Luvox, Prozac, Zoloft and Paxil and the related Effexor and Cymbalta–date, location, type of violence and the articles about school shootings, famous cases and legal cases won on SSRI defenses are color coded.
You don’t even have to read the whole article.
SSRIstories founder and manager Betty Henderson pulls out and boldfaces the story’s drug-related citation like Lynyrd Skynyrd harmonicist Mike Caruso’s remark that, “the doctor put me on Cymbalta. That turned me manic,” and Oklahoma murder suspect Ronson Bush’s remark, “I killed my friend when I took these. I’m not going to take them,” when offered SSRIs at the Grady County Jail.
Read entire article: http://www.opednews.com/articles/Before-You-Take-That-Antid-by-Martha-Rosenberg-100103-313.html
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Tags: Antidepressant, Cymbalta, effexor, Lexapro, luvox, murder, Paxil, prozac, ssri, SSRIstories.com, Suicide, violence, Zoloft
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Monday, December 14th, 2009
Truthout
Evelyn Pringle
December 12, 2009
Prescriptions for psychiatric drugs increased 50 percent with children in the US, and 73 percent among adults, from 1996 to 2006, according to a study in the May/June 2009 issue of the journal Health Affairs. Another study in the same issue of Health Affairs found spending for mental health care grew more than 30 percent over the same ten-year period, with almost all of the increase due to psychiatric drug costs.
On April 22, 2009, the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality reported that in 2006 more money was spent on treating mental disorders in children aged 0 to 17 than for any other medical condition, with a total of $8.9 billion. By comparison, the cost of treating trauma-related disorders, including fractures, sprains, burns, and other physical injuries, was only $6.1 billion.
In 2008, psychiatric drug makers had overall sales in the US of $14.6 billion from antipsychotics, $9.6 billion off antidepressants, $11.3 billion from antiseizure drugs and $4.8 billion in sales of ADHD drugs, for a grand total of $40.3 billion.
The path to child drugging in the US started with providing adolescents with stimulants for ADHD in the early 80s. That was followed by Prozac in the late 80s, and in the mid-90s drug companies started claiming that ADHD kids really had bipolar disorder, coinciding with the marketing of epilepsy drugs as “mood stablizers” and the arrival of the new atypical antipsychotics.
Read entire article: http://www.truthout.org/1213091
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Tags: ADHD, Antidepressant, antipsychotic, AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Dr. Stefan Kruszewski, Eli Lilly, GlaxoSmithKline, Janssen, Johnson & Johnson, mood stabilizer, prozac, Risperdal, Seroquel, Shire Pharmaceuticals, snri, ssri, wellbutrin, Zyprexa
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