Craig Pepin-Donat
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 According to the drug companies, there were no suicides in any of their drug trials. On closer examination of the initial reports, it was unclear whether the behaviors reported in these studies represented actual suicide attempts or other self-injurious behaviors that were not suicide-related. While it is good to know that there were no actual suicides, it is still not reassuring that suicide attempts or thoughts and other self-destructive behaviors can be a symptom of these drugs. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 Violent methods were more often associated with fluoxetine suicides than with TCA suicides (65% v. 23%, P < 0.001). Demographic characteristics of antidepressant-related deaths in Maryland were similar to those of the entire USA. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Even aggressive behavior and suicides are now linked with lower cholesterol levels. Since 1992, researchers have noted increases in suicides among those undertaking cholesterol-lowering treatment or dietary regimes. By lowering blood cholesterol you also reduce serotonin receptors leading to increased micro viscosity and affecting the balance of cerebral lipid metabolism. This is believed to have profound effects on brain function. Data from mental institutions have revealed that aggressive people and those with antisocial personalities have lower blood cholesterol levels than average. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Thomas Levy, who theorized that when people took these medications to lower their cholesterol, their bodies' normal protective mechanism against heavy metal toxicity was diminished and they got depressed, hostile, and angry—hence the increase in homicides and suicides. They also lost their agility and ability to react in technical situations—hence more car accidents.
That is not to say that lowering cholesterol does not have advantages for some. It does, especially in middle-aged men (50-70) with coronary heart disease. The newer cholesterol-lowering drugs (i.e. |
Mark Sircus
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 Teen suicides have tripled since 1960 in the United States. Today suicide is the leading cause of death (after car accidents) for 15 to 24-year-olds. Since the early 1990's millions of children around the world have taken antidepressants that health authorities are just now branding as suicidal agents. This is the other side of the magnesium deficiency, the nightmare of these drugs which only compounds and worsens the loss of magnesium from the body.
The scene has been long in the making for the patterned onslaught of psychiatry on the young. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 The fatalities, ranging into the hundteds of thousands annually, are almost entirely due to suicides facilitated by easy access to widely disseminated, potent toxins. As in the West, the scenario of grabbing what is most easily available often characterizes self-harm ingestions (especially among adolescents), but the nature of these poisons converts what might have been little more than a gesture (as in raking an over-the-counter painkiller in the United States) to a successful suicide (as in guzzling a poorly regulated otganophosphate pesticide in Sri Lanka). |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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| While it is good to know that there were no actual suicides, it is still not reassuring that suicide attempts or thoughts and other self-destructive behaviors can be a symptom of these drugs. This is one of the most serious issues that has taken its toll on our health and on our future in the name of profit. This is the same class of drugs discussed earlier that is being routinely prescribed to our children for ADHD. It is a travesty. |
Andreas Moritz
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| Since 1992, researchers have noted increases in suicides among those undertaking cholesterol-lowering treatment or dietary regimes. By lowering blood cholesterol you also reduce serotonin receptors leading to increased micro viscosity and affecting the balance of cerebral lipid metabolism. This is believed to have profound effects on brain function. Data from mental institutions have revealed that aggressive people and those with antisocial personalities have lower blood cholesterol levels than average. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Without it, drug sales would plummet and the number of Americans killed by drug-related heart attacks, strokes, traffic accidents and suicides would fall sharply. That's why Big Pharma has to keep the media racket going. It also helps get them lots of positive media coverage, given that their huge advertising budgets pay the overhead for major TV stations, newspapers, magazines and, of course, medical journals.
The U.S. remains the only advanced nation in the world short-sighted enough to allow drug companies to advertise directly to the public. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 General Practitioners send patients home with prescriptions for dangerous COX-2 inhibitor drugs, diabetes drugs, statin drugs and psychotropic drugs that kill, at minimum, tens of thousands of Americans every year through heart attacks, strokes, liver failure and suicides. Where is the call to protect the public from these dangerous chemicals that are causing casualty numbers resembling a world war?
Where is the effort to protect the public from all the dangerous cancer-causing food additives like sodium nitrite? Hydrogenated oils? Chemical preservatives and sweeteners? |
Kelly Patricia O'Meara
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 After all, how many adverse reports of suicides and attempted suicides does it take to get the FDA's attention? What is the acceptable risk-benefit ratio?
The drug approval agency has been known to pull a drug for far fewer complaints. For instance, it wasn't too many years ago that the FDA pulled from the market the appetite suppressants Fen-Phen (Fenfluramine and Dexfenfluramine) when it became aware of less than 150 adverse reports associated with heart valve damage.
What's up? |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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| Years ago, in the early 1980s, when cholesterol-lowering drugs first hit the mass market, studies found an increase in suicides, homicides, and automobile accidents. But those results were somehow overlooked in the rush to prescribe these "wonder" meds.
At the 2005 American College for Advancement in Medicine (ACAM), I attended a lecture by a prominent cardiologist, Dr. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 And venlafaxine seems to carry the greatest risk of suicide of all the antidepressants, with a threefold increased risk of attempted or completed suicides.
Mood-Stabilizing Agents
Mood-stabilizing agents are used conventionally in the treatment of epilepsy, but they may also be effective in the stabilization of mood in patients with psychiatric disorders, especially patients with bipolar disorder.
Bipolar disorder (formerly known as manic-depressive disorder) is a condition that affects more than 2 million Americans. |
Mark Sircus
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| Eli Lilly's newest antidepressant, Cymbalta (Duloxetine) had 6 suicides in the clinical trials, before it ever reached the market, and in people with no previous history of depression. The last and most publicized was the death of a young college girl, who had entered the clinical trial for some extra money while she was in school. She had no depression, was a good student, social and well adjusted, found hanging by a noose after a dosage change of this forecasted blockbuster. See: news.independent.co.uk/uk/ healtf_medical/story.jsp? |
J. Douglas Bremner
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| No one has yet shown that SSRIs increase the rates of completed or "successful" suicides in either adults or children. But one reason for the increased agitation is that the recommended starting dose is often too high. I recommend starting at half the recommended dose and moving patients up very gradually.
Akathisia is also treatable with Valium and other benzodiazepine drugs (sedatives), and I don't think that doctors should be afraid to use them for a limited time. |
Lynne McTaggart
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 As Persinger discovered, the more unsettled the weather in space, the greater the number of patients hospitalized for nervous disorders and the greater number of attempted suicides.18 Geomagnetic disturbance also seemed to correlate with increases in general psychiatric disorders.19 Even those already suffering from mental illness get more agitated during magnetically stormy days. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Approximately 4% of the people who have depression will end their own lives, resulting in 30,000 suicides each year. "That's almost twice the number of homicides," Insel points out. "It's a very real public health challenge."
In addition, approximately half of the people who experience depression don't receive treatment, and of those who do get treatment, only approximately 40% receive the best, "evidence-based" treatment.
In. For more information about depression, — visit the National Institute of Mental Health Web site at www.nimh.nih.gov. |
| And self-help strategies, such as exercise, diet and natural remedies, don't help
"Antidepressants now carry a warning label because research shows increased suicidal thoughts (not actual suicides) in children and adolescents who are taking these drugs. When taking an antidepressant, call your doctor if you experience agitation, physical restlessness or have suicidal thoughts. everyone. For many people who are depressed, medication offers the best hope for relief.
New: Drugs that relieve depression but do not cause intolerable side effects are now available.
DO YOU NEED AN ANTIDEPRESSANT? |
Dawson Church
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 At the time he was consulting with a high school, doing grief work with students after a rash of suicides. "It is terrible for a client," he objected, "if they try all that touchy-feely stuff and it doesn't work."
Underlying his objection was the assumption that living meant that the "touchy-feely stuff" worked, and dying meant that it did not. Siegel and others have reintroduced into public consciousness the idea of a healed death.
My mother showed me this first-hand. She developed cancer in her left eye and her liver. |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
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 High chaperone levels tend to decrease the amount of toxic-cell and cancer-cell suicides. In other words, low chaperone levels encourage toxic cell and cancer cell suicides. Fasting lowers the chaperone level. This heat-shock protein response can be set off by environmental stresses, physiological stresses, and even non-stressful conditions. The non-stressful conditions include cell cycles and developmental pathways. A cell has the ability to sense the type and severity of a stress and respond appropriately. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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| The more we hear about the rising tide of suicides in adolescents and even in children as young as 8, 9 and 10, it seems astounding that such a thing should overwhelm substantial numbers of children in what is supposed to be the happiest time of life. I evaluate children and adults who are depressed. For some of them there is no apparent reason for their overwhelming sadness. They've got good relationships with other people. Their social organization is intact. They've had a good upbringing. They have a good self-image. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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 Which begs the question: Could some of the suicides blamed on these antidepressants have been prevented with simple genetic testing for the gene that's responsible for the detox enzyme? I personally think so.
Interestingly, on the other hand, some folks make too much of this enzyme (as well as other enzymes) and require higher doses of drugs for the therapeutic benefit. These may be the same people who live long and with relatively unhealthy lifestyles! |
Bottom Line Health
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| Approximately half of these cases are due to unintentional poisoning as opposed to attempted suicides, the researchers add.
Compared to the millions of acetaminophen tablets taken by Americans every day, the number of poisonings still remains low. But the researchers find it troubling that the percentage of acute liver failure cases linked to the drug have almost doubled since 1998.
THE STUDY
Lead researcher Dr. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Antidepressant drugs cause violent behavior and suicides. Statin drugs can cause severe muscle pain (rhabdomyolysis) and loss of cognitive function. They also block the production of cholesterol, the precursor to sex hormones.
... and finally ...
15. Cars would be sold to you with high-priced features like a sunroof, air conditioning, 6-CD changer, navigation system and other items, but upon delivery, you would find none of the features you paid for. The car would be completely different from the one you thought you bought. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 This is especially true when considering the potentially dangerous side effects of antidepressant drugs that are now coming to light, including increased risk of suicides, violent behavior, and other similar acts of aggression. But what healing foods in particular are we talking about in this study? In addition to the omega-3 fatty acids, these health enhancing substances are found in walnuts, molasses, and fish, according to researchers. They're also found in many other foods. |
Dr. Timothy Scott
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 As revealed by other uncovered memos, the strategy was to promote three messages:
(1) suicides are due to the "disease" of depression, not to Lilly's antidepressant.
(2) Prozac was the most researched drug ever made.
(3) If Prozac were banned, Americans with the disease of depression would be denied the very treatment they most need.2
Lilly won the FDA vote, but Lilly's chairman, Randall Tobias, may someday admit that he wishes they had not. Only 3 years later his wife decided to take Prozac. She committed suicide shortly thereafter. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 People are poisoning their minds with antidepressant drugs that promote violent behavior and suicides. They're poisoning their cardiovascular system with beta-blockers and other drugs. And of course they're poisoning their livers.
And yet people volunteer to do this -- each and every day they will put these toxic chemicals into their bodies simply because someone with a degree from a school of disease (also known as medical school) told them to do so. And, not only that, they will actually pay for the privilege of poisoning their own bodies. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The amount of suicides happening with antidepressant drugs is all over the news.
Mike Adams: I started out as more of a critic of the drug industry, writing in '98 and '99, and at that time people thought I was nuts to say that SSRI drugs caused aggressive behavior, or that statin drugs caused muscle wasting and things like that. And now it's headline news every day.
Amazon John: Headlines every day, every day. And recently there was the headline that they're adding another dozen things to the list of carcinogens, including several kinds of viruses as being directly linked to cancer. |
Dr. Timothy Scott
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| In 1987 the German equivalent of America's Food and Drug Administration refused to allow Prozac (the only antidepressant drug approved for use by children in America) to be marketed in Germany when studies revealed three times as many suicides among study participants as among those on a placebo.14 Their studies were particularly disconcerting because, unlike correlational studies which can lead to false conclusions, the Germans used an experimental design. If antidepressants correct the chemical imbalance, why would there be more suicide among those on these drugs? |
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