Experts say Anti-Depressant Drugs Cause Suicides Instead of Preventing Them!

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Experts say antidepressant drugs cause suicides instead of preventing them!

Natural News by Dani Veracity:

In June 2001, a jury in Wyoming determined that the antidepressant drug Paxil caused a man to kill his wife, daughter and granddaughter before killing himself. The jury awarded the surviving family $8 million in damages, according to ‘American Medical Publishing’s Prescription Medicines, Side Effects and Natural Alternatives’.

In Portland, Ore., Jay Johnston took the prescribed antidepressants Zoloft and Prozac. He then attempted suicide with a shotgun, permanently disfiguring himself. In the same month as the Wyoming jury’s decision, Johnston sued. The courts awarded Johnston $5 million, reports Dr. Ann Blake Tracy in ‘Prozac: Panacea or Pandora’. Similarly, who could forget Eric Harris, who — along with Dylan Klebold — killed 11 people and then himself in the Columbine school shooting? At the time of the shooting, Harris was being treated with the prescription antidepressant Luvox.

These patients are among the growing statistics of people who committed suicide, or tried to commit suicide, while undergoing treatment with prescription antidepressants.

Antidepressant drugs such as Prozac, Luvox and Paxil are selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, commonly known as SSRIs. Serotonin is one of your brain’s most important biochemicals; it controls everything from appetite to mood swings. If you’re depressed, compulsively eating or gambling, not sleeping properly or even just moody, you’re probably lacking serotonin. It’s important to note, however, that you can also have too much serotonin.

In Health and Nutrition Secrets, Dr. Russell L. Blaylock writes,

“It is also known that these medications increase brain levels of the neurotransmitter serotonin, which, in high concentrations, can also act as an excitotoxin.”

When antidepressant drugs raise serotonin to an excitotoxin level, the brain reacts in ways similar to mental illness. According to Burton Goldberg’s book, ‘Alternative Medicine’, side effects of SSRIs include uncontrollable facial and body tics, dizziness, hallucinations, nausea, sexual dysfunction, addiction, electric-shock-like sensations in the brain and, of course, homicidal or suicidal thoughts and behavior.

Dr. Joseph Glenmullen describes in Prozac Backlash:

“Anna was started on Prozac but became severely anxious, agitated and sleepless … Having never been suicidal before, two weeks after starting Prozac, Anna went to her HMO because she felt like killing herself. The psychiatrist on call told Anna the Prozac was indeed making her worse and hospitalized her. But her original psychiatrist disagreed, restarted Prozac, although at a lower dose and added a second, sedating antidepressant (Trazodone), which Anna only took for two days.”

Pharmaceutical companies, however, have no excuse. Prozac’s maker, Eli Lilly, frantically fought any change in the prescribing guidelines for antidepressants; even a general warning. Not even public allegations linking the drug to suicides, murders, murder-suicides and mass murder-suicides could weaken Eli Lilly’s staunch defense of the antidepressant. Dr. Glenmullen explains that Eli Lilly’s stance was a result, of course, of financial greed:

“Pharmaceutical companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars developing and launching a drug like Prozac. By 1991, Prozac was already the number-one bestselling antidepressant, with sales near $1 billion a year. The stakes were indeed high. So the pharmaceutical industry and drug advocates decided to defend Prozac at all costs, despite the risks to individual and public safety.”

In other words, to the pharmaceutical industry, it seems nothing — not the individual lives of depressed people, not the massacre at Columbine — is more important than making $1 billion a year.

You know your life is more important than that; you know that humanity is more important than any financial sum. It’s up to you — not your doctor and certainly not a pill — to find a way to overcome depression. Visit a therapist and do some cognitive therapy; even the staunchest pill-pusher won’t deny that antidepressant medication is no substitute for counseling. If your brain lacks serotonin, there are many safe and natural ways to boost the biochemical. You can find a concise, yet informative article on boosting your mood through diet, right here on foodmatters.tv

Prozac, Luvox, Paxil and Zoloft are just brand names for the same recipe for disaster. These drugs are known to induce suicide and other violent behavior in depressed people who may already be suicidal.

The experts speak out on antidepressant drugs and suicide

“A lawsuit contends the manufacturer of the popular anti-depressant Paxil concealed evidence that the drug can be addictive. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of 35 people from around the country who say they suffered symptoms ranging from electrical shocks to suicidal thoughts after discontinuing use of the drug. Paxil is the second largest selling anti-depressant in America. In June of 2001, a jury in Wyoming awarded $8 million in damages to a family of a man after determining that Paxil caused him to kill his wife, daughter, and granddaughter before he committed suicide.”

‘Prescription Medicines, Side Effects and Natural Alternatives’ by American Medical Publishing, page 30.

“..The FDA has ruled that Paxil (paroxetine) should not be taken by anyone younger than age 18 because it is associated with a possible increased risk of suicidal impulses.”

‘Dr Isadore Rosenfeld’s Breakthrough Health’ by Isadore Rosenfeld MD, page 87

$5 Million Awarded In anti-depressant Negligence Case Jay Johnston tried commit suicide after being given Zoloft and then Prozac. He is permanently disfigured from the shotgun blast.

‘PROZAC Panacea or Pandora’ by Ann Blake Tracy PhD, page 280

“A brand-new drug can be like a license to print money. It certainly worked that way for Eli Lilly. When the company launched the antidepressant Prozac in 1987, nobody else had anything quite like it, and Lilly cleaned up. But then other pharmaceutical firms rushed in with their own versions, including Zoloft, Paxil, Celexa and the recently newsworthy Luvox, found in the blood of Columbine High School shooter Eric Harris. The competition has already eaten into Lilly’s market share, and things can only go downhill from here.”

‘Beyond Depression’ by Michael D. Lemonick and Alice Park, Time 5/17/99, page 74.

“Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) drug, such as Prozac, that increases levels of circulating serotonin. SSRIs have the potential for serious side effects, including suicidal thoughts, restlessness, and aggression.”

‘The Memory Solution’ by Dr Julian Whitaker, page 252.

“It is also interesting to note that in all the cases of school shootings, the kids responsible for the violence were taking SSRI medications, which are known to produce suicidal and homicidal “side effects.” It is also known that these medications increase brain levels of the neurotransmitter serotonin, which, in high concentrations, can also act as an excitotoxin.”

‘Health And Nutrition Secrets’ by Russell L Blaylock MD, page 79

“Prozac and similar antidepressant drugs, such as Paxil and Zoloft, have seen a significant increase in use over the last decade, with approximately 28 million Americans having used the drugs, and 70% of the prescriptions for them written by physicians rather than psychiatrists. Joseph Glen-mullen, Ph.D., author of Prozac Backlash, considers this trend both dangerous and reckless, pointing out that anti-depressants can have severe side effects. These include uncontrollable facial and body tics (which can be signs of severe neurological damage), hallucinations, dizziness, nausea, anxiety, withdrawal symptoms, sexual dysfunction, and electric shock-like sensations in the brain. Dr. Glen-mullen cautions that a small percentage of people can become homicidal, suicidal, or both as a result of Prozac use.”

‘Alternative Medicine’ by Burton Goldberg, page 798

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*(Negative statements concerning medical doctors were removed as the point here is to convey what is being voiced concerning antidepressants).