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posted October 17, 2004 08:26 AM         

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Severe Warnings Ordered
For ALL Antidepressants
From Ann Blake Tracy, PhD
Executive Director, International Coalition For Drug Awareness
Atracyphd1@aol.com
10-15-4

FINALLY, after years of deadly drugs being available to children with no warning of the danger of increased fatalities due to suicide, the FDA issues a black box warnings for all antidepressants on the market!

This long overdue and many children have died or suffered serious damage as a result of this lack of warning. Perhaps NOW doctors will finally think before handing these drugs out like candy to children and teens.

The scientific evidence behind this has been out there for decades. All anyone ever had to do was read it. I explained that clearly in my latest testimony before the FDA on September 13, 2004. I will include that here.

I am Ann Blake Tracy, PhD, head of the International Coalition for Drug Awareness. I am the author of "Prozac: Panacea or Pandora." [Financial disclosure] My house has been mortgaged to the hilt to pay for the last 15 years that I have devoted to nothing but research on SSRI antidepressants and to fund my trip here.

I have testified as an expert witness for twelve and a half years in court cases involving these drugs.
Research on serotonin has been clear from the very beginning, that the most damaging thing that could be done to the serotonergic 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 nightmares, hot flushes, migraines, pains around the heart, difficulty breathing, worsening of bronchial complaints, tension and anxiety which appear from out of nowhere, depression, suicide - especially very violent suicide and repeated attempts, hostility, violent crime, arson, substance abuse including cravings for alcohol and other drugs, psychosis, mania, organic brain disease [brain damage], autism, anorexia, reckless driving, Alzheimer's, impulsive behavior with no concern for punishment, and argumentative behavior.

How anyone ever thought it would be therapeutic to chemically induce these reactions is beyond me, yet these reactions are exactly what we witnessed in our society over the past decade and a half as a result of the widespread use of these drugs.

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 an SSRI antidepressant?

A study out of the University of Southern California, in 1996, looked at a group of mutant mice that had been genetically engineered. In an experiment that had gone terribly wrong, they were the most violent creatures they had ever witnessed. They were born lacking the MAOA enzyme which metabolizes serotonin. The end result is the same as if they were taking an SSRI antidepressant which does inhibit the metabolism of serotonin.

This has been a national holocaust. It must end. These are extremely dangerous drugs that should have been banned as similar drugs were in the past.
As a society, we once thought LSD and PCP to be miracle medications. We have never seen drugs so similar to LSD and PCP as these SSRIantidepressants are. All of these drugs produce dreaming during periods of wakefulness. The higher serotonin levels overstimulate the brain stem leading to a lack of muscle paralysis. That was seen clearly in the case of comedian Phil Hartman and his wife in the terrible murder-suicide [whose wrongful death suit has been settled by the makers of Zoloft].
Thank you.

Ann Blake Tracy, Ph.D.,
Executive Director, International Coalition For Drug Awareness
Website: <>www.drugawareness.org
Author: Prozac: Panacea or Pandora? - Our Serotonin Nightmare
& audio tape on safe withdrawal: "Help! I Can't Get Off My Antidepressant!"
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<http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=to
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US Orders New Warnings On Antidepressants For Kids

10-15-4

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - All antidepressants must come with tough warnings explaining that the drugs increase the chances of suicidal behavior in some children and teens, U.S. health officials said on Friday.

In an order to drug makers, the Food and Drug Administration said the
information to be highlighted in a black box must also state whether the
drug has, or has not been, cleared for use by children. Only Eli Lilly and
Co.'s Prozac is FDA-approved for treating pediatric depression.

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posted October 22, 2004 11:14 AM         

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Thank you, Gia.

As being one of the people regularly fighting with depression, I'm very grateful for all information.

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posted October 22, 2004 11:27 AM         

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posted October 22, 2004 11:15 PM         

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Thank you, Gia, for sharing this with us. It's just frightening.

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posted October 22, 2004 11:26 PM         

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Gia, are these findings having specifically to do with children, or adults as well?

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posted October 25, 2004 08:25 AM         

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Waving Sheaa & lots of hugs too!

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posted October 25, 2004 11:48 AM         

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I think one should be careful with both. I have more extensive studies, but decided not to post them because they were way too scary. There are more natural ways to help with both depression. Loads of supplements help and so do some homeopathic remedies.

Gia

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