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Q: My 33-year-old son committed suicide five years ago while he was taking Prozac. Apparently neither the doctor nor the pharmacist warned my son or his wife that Prozac could cause suicidal thoughts.
People should be told about other ways to manage depression, such as counseling, vigorous exercise or even an herb like St. John's wort.
We are so sorry to hear about the death of your son. The Food and Drug Administration first issued a warning about the possibility of suicidal thoughts linked to antidepressants in 2004. Initially, the caution applied to children and adolescents. It has been expanded to include young adults.
Although many people can benefit from antidepressants, others experience intolerable side effects.
You are right that alternative approaches can sometimes be helpful in managing depression. For more information, we offer a CD of an hourlong interview with Dr. Tieraona Low Dog on "Mental Health Naturally" together with our Guide to Dealing With Depression.
Read more: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2010/12/06/1892427/be-aware-of-suicide-risks-with.html#ixzz17RLgEhYIQ: My 33-year-old son committed suicide five years ago while he was taking Prozac.... more
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Has there ever been a period when you flew off the handle over little things? Needed less sleep? Felt irritable? Answered yes to any of these? Now ask yourself this: “Is it really depression or could it be bipolar disorder?” These questions are designed to suck you into the world represented by a four-page ad promoting AstraZeneca’s drug Seroquel, the top-selling antipsychotic in the world. And what a crazy world it is.
A recent report on US prescribing trends showed that the new generation of “atypical” antipsychotic drugs, including Abilify (aripiprazole), Zyprexa (olanzapine), Seroquel (quetiapine) and Risperidal (risperidone), is now the biggest money making class of pharmaceuticals in the world. Americans alone spend upwards of $14.6 billion per year on these drugs – an amount that beats out the Godzilla cholesterol-lowering market – a fact as deeply puzzling as it is disturbing. I mean, have we all gone completely and utterly bonkers? Yes, chalk me up as being irritable.
I remember watching the trends in antipsychotic prescriptions starting to rise a few years ago and wondered what was fuelling it. I found that schizophrenia affects only maybe 1.5 percent of the population. How then did these drugs, originally made for schizophrenia, ever become the most lucrative therapeutic class of drugs in the world? The easy answer in three words is: “Bipolar spectrum disorder.”
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Books? Check. Scantrons? Check. No. 2 pencils? Check. Notes? Check. Adderall? Check. For some students, this is a familiar finals prep-list.
“Something like 20 percent [of those using Adderall] will use it to write a paper or take an exam,” said Diane Snow, clinical professor and director of the Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioners program.
The May suicide of 21-year-old Vanderbilt University student Kyle Craig, along with at least 25 other deaths, is linked to Adderall and other medications used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or ADHD.
“Shorter acting prescriptions are more popular with college students, and they’re less expensive. But they’re also more dangerous,” Snow said. “People will crush them up and snort them. They get a euphoric high from getting a four, six, eight hour dose all at once.”
Some effects are sudden death, heart attack, blistering or peeling of the skin and seizures.
“It can cause abdominal pain, rage reactions, paranoia — I mean people actually experience hallucinations,” Snow said. “These are serious drugs. You don’t mess around with them, and you worry about someone who does.”
http://www.theshorthorn.com/content/view/21069/58/Books? Check. Scantrons? Check. No. 2 pencils? Check. Notes? Check. Adderall? Check.... more
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Recent false information published by the Federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration claims that “19.9 percent of American adults in the United States (45.1 million) have experienced mental illness over the past year.”
In fact, statistics provided on the number of people suffering mental illness are completely false or, at best, questionable.
Psychiatry has literally covered every base with invented criteria. The migraine sufferer has a “pain disorder,” the child who fidgets is “hyperactive,” the person who smokes has a “nicotine” disorder, a low math score is “developmental arithmetic disorder,” arguing with parents is “oppositional defiance disorder.”
Counting these normal human problems, emotions and reactions as “mental illness” is a fraud, designed to solicit funds for the mental health industry and sell more drugs.
The American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is the book that contains names and descriptions of 374 so-called mental disorders (including everything from depression to “caffeine withdrawal disorder”.)
Doctors, psychiatrists and other medical and mental health practitioners use the DSM to diagnose patients. Each DSM mental disorder description carries a code that clinicians can use to substantiate claims for health insurance reimbursement.
Though it has become very influential since it first appeared in 1952 (when it only contained 112 disorders), there is one crucial test the DSM has never passed: scientific validity. In fact, after more than 50 years of deception, broad exposure is now being given to the unscientific and ludicrous nature of this “943-page doorstop.”
Psychiatric diagnosis has come to be accepted as legitimate, reliable and scientific, though it is based on a system whose own authors admit that it is not. Within the covers of the various editions of DSM, its editors freely admit to the book’s intended use and its limitations.
For example, the DSM-IV states, “…although this manual provides a classification of mental disorders, it must be admitted that no definition adequately specifies precise boundaries for the concept of ‘mental disorder.’”
The fifth edition of DSM, planned for release in 2013, has been garnering continuous criticism for the widening inclusion of a new series of so-called behavioral addictions to shopping, sex, food, videogames, the Internet and so on. The contention of many is that the DSM’s developers are seeking to label all manner of normal emotional reactions or human behavioral quirks as mental disorders – thereby falsely increasing the numbers of “mentally ill” people who would then be prescribed one or more drugs that carry all manner of serious side effect warnings.
Based on the DSM then, statistics are touted about near “epidemic” rates of mental illness in order to demand more funds.
The apparent epidemic of “mental illness” is because psychiatry, working with the pharmaceutical industry, invents new disorders almost every year. Take, for example, “Intermittent Explosive Disorder,” often referred to as “Road Rage” and which psychiatrists report afflicts one in 20, about 16 million Americans. How, exactly, did psychiatrists come up with this? They conducted a survey. The survey asked American adults if they had ever experienced three anger outbursts in their entire life. Not surprisingly, a whole lot of people said they had. From this flimsy evidence the Archives of General Psychiatry printed the survey results that hype this fictitious disease.
In September 2001, a U.S. Senate hearing on “Psychological Trauma and Terrorism” was told that, “Seventy?one percent of Americans said that they have felt depressed by the [9/11] attacks.” It’s a worrying statistic, until one realizes that the survey was conducted during the six days after the 9/11 terrorist attacks when Americans were, naturally, in a state of shock. The survey sampled 1,200 people only, which, by some quantum leap, led to the conclusion that nearly three?quarters of Americans were mentally damaged, requiring “professional” help.
What did have an impact were psychotropic drug sales. Immediately following the 9/11 attacks, new prescriptions for antidepressants in New York jumped 17% and prescriptions for anti?anxiety drugs rose 25%.
Behind the alarming reports of mental illness gripping our nation are psychiatrists and drug companies inventing diseases and placing healthy people at risk.
People can have problems in life; these are not, however, some mental illness caused by a deficiency of psychotropic drugs in their brains. Click here to find out the alternatives to psychiatric drugs.
With $76 billion spent every year on psychiatric drugs internationally, and billions more in psychiatric research, one would and should expect an improving condition. However, after decades of psychiatric monopoly over the world’s mental health, their approach leads only to massive increases in people taking mind-altering drugs, escalating funding demands, and up to $40 billion a year in mental health care fraud in the U.S.
http://www.cchrstl.org/wordpress/2010/11/29/1-in-5-mentally-ill-dont-believe-it/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSfkwNmYeSQ&feature=player_profilepageRecent false information published by the Federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health... more
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Darkness hung over Charleston Harbor as Matthew Steubing parked his Ford pickup truck on the aging bridge and left a note on the seat beside his Bible. He put on a life jacket and began to climb -- up, up, into the span's superstructure.
Then, he jumped.
His parents were waiting for Matthew to arrive home in Winchester, Va., when they received the news on July 18, 2003. Their 18-year-old son plunged more than 160 feet from the Silas Pearman Bridge before slamming into the Cooper River. He was gone.
"Our world blew apart," his mother, Celeste Steubing, said. "We couldn't imagine this happening because this wasn't Matthew. ... It made no sense."
Matthew, the youngest of six children, had been a vibrant kid, happy and full of life. But after a rough patch in his senior year of high school left him feeling down, a psychologist suggested he would benefit from the antidepressant drug Lexapro. He soon became withdrawn and anxious, his parents recalled during a recent visit to Charleston.
Matthew committed suicide just nine weeks after starting on the drug. Only later did his family learn that antidepressants carry a heightened risk of suicide in children, the Steubings said.
The Steubings have made it their mission to warn other parents about the hidden dangers of psychiatric drugs. To that end, Celeste Steubing was featured in the recently released documentary, "Dead Wrong," produced by the Los Angeles-based Citizens Commission on Human Rights. (see first chapter below)
Read Full Story... http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2010/nov/27/parents-warning-others/Darkness hung over Charleston Harbor as Matthew Steubing parked his Ford pickup truck... more
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(NaturalNews) A psychiatrist on the payroll of GlaxoSmithKline has been sentenced to 13 months in prison after pleading guilty to committing research fraud in trials of the company's antidepressant Paxil on children.
Maria Carmen Palazzo is already serving a sentence of 87 months for defrauding Medicare and Medicaid.
Palazzo was accused by the FDA of enrolling children in a clinical trial even though she knew they did not actually suffer from major depressive or obsessive compulsive disorder, the conditions being studied. Palazzo then falsified records and psychiatric diagnoses.
GlaxoSmithKline, manufacturer of Paxil, paid Palazzo $5,000 for every child she enrolled in the study.
The case's significance goes beyond simple research fraud, as Glaxo is now defending itself against charges that for 15 years it deliberately concealed evidence that Paxil increases the risk of suicide in children.
Glaxo is also defending itself against accusations that it manipulated data to conceal the risks of its diabetes blockbuster Avandia, and that it failed to warn parents that Paxil may cause birth defects if taken by pregnant women. The company has already agreed to pay more than $1 billion to settle roughly 700 birth defect lawsuits; another 100 or so suits are pending.
Although the FDA eventually required Paxil to carry a warning about the risk of birth defects and an even more prominent "black box" warning about suicide risk, many critics allege that the agency acted too slowly.
"There [had] been hints for many years that antidepressants, such as Paxil, when given to children, can cause serious side effects, including suicide, but the FDA delayed taking any action to prevent these drugs from being prescribed for children," writes Brent Hoadley in Too Profitable to Cure.
Palazzo will not actually serve any additional prison time for potentially placing children's safety at risk; her new term will be served concurrently with her first.
http://www.naturalnews.com/030557_psychiatry_fraud.html(NaturalNews) A psychiatrist on the payroll of GlaxoSmithKline has been sentenced to... more
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Psychiatrists fraudulently diagnose insomnia as a “mental illness” for which they can prescribe harmful and addictive drugs to children.
[Editorial Comment] When I couldn’t sleep as a child, I recall being read a bedtime story. Guess what I do now? I get up and read for a while.
A survey of nearly 1300 child psychiatrists indicates that insomnia is a major problem among children in mental health treatment and at least a quarter of these patients are given drugs to “help” them sleep.
Read the full article here: "Our children aren't sleeping and we're medicating them" -http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-07/l-oca072610.php
There are no less than 13 sleep related disorders in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV):
291.8 Alcohol-Induced Sleep Disorder
292.89 Substance-Induced Sleep Disorder (Amphetamine, Caffeine, etc.)
307.45 Circadian Rhythm Sleep Disorder
307.46 Sleep Terror Disorder
307.46 Sleepwalking Disorder
307.47 Dyssomnia (sleep disturbance)
307.47 Nightmare Disorder
307.47 Parasomnia (sleep disturbance)
780.52 Sleep Disorder Due to [General Medical Condition], Insomnia Type
780.54 Sleep Disorder Due to [General Medical Condition], Hypersomnia Type
780.59 Sleep Disorder Due to [General Medical Condition], Parasomnia
780.59 Sleep Disorder Due to [General Medical Condition], Mixed Type
780.59 Breathing-Related Sleep Disorder
Read Full Article: http://www.cchrstl.org/wordpress/2010/11/21/children-are-being-given-psychiatric-drugs-to-help-them-sleep/Psychiatrists fraudulently diagnose insomnia as a “mental illness” for... more
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SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENING!!
Forest Laboratories is reaching settlements in a host of wrongful death and personal injury lawsuits filed by parents of children who took their antidepressants.
The New York-based pharmaceutical is taking the step a month after its St. Louis-based subsidiary, Forest Pharmaceuticals, pleaded guilty to criminal charges and agreed to pay more than $300 million in penalties stemming from its marketing and manufacturing practices. More than 50 lawsuits accuse Forest of concealing negative pediatric studies of the drug Celexa and aggressively marketing Celexa and its sister drug, Lexapro.
http://www.missourinet.com/2010/10/30/forest-laboratories-settling-host-of-lawsuits/SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENING!!
Forest Laboratories is reaching... more
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(NaturalNews) Taking antidepressant drugs like Risperdal (risperidone) and Seroquel (quetiapine fumarate) could cause you to gain a lot of weight very quickly, according to a recent report in CNN. Atypical antipsychotic drugs are responsible for causing voracious hunger episodes in roughly 30 percent of patients who take them, which can lead to some seriously rapid weight gain.
The drugs -- which include the aforementioned as well as Zyprexa (olanzapine), Abilify (aripiprazole), and Geodon (ziprasidone) -- appear to trigger enzymes that induce appetite. In one case, a young girl taking risperidone gained 5.5 pounds, or 14 percent of her body weight, within one year. And a 19-year-old college student on the same drug as well as other anti-anxiety medications gained 25 pounds in just six months.
Read Full Article: http://www.naturalnews.com/030436_antidepressants_weight_gain.html
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November 08, 2010One of the few issues not thoroughly covered in Scott Calvert's well-researched, comprehensive articles on Baltimore Behavioral Health ("Hooked on treatment," Nov. 7 and "Sheltered addicts, strained recovery," Nov. 8) is why psychiatric diagnoses are particularly prone to misdiagnosis and overdiagnosis.
The reason is that psychiatric diagnosis is not based on pathological criteria. The closest the article comes to addressing this problem is the statement that "Even in the best clinical scenario, a psychiatric diagnosis is tricky, experts say; doctors have no X-rays to help apply the criteria defining a mental illness."
In fact a diagnosis can never be indisputably ruled in or ruled out in psychiatry. All we have is testimony by differing psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers. In somatic medicine there is an array of pathological tests which often permit much greater diagnostic certainty. A biopsy of a lump in the breast will almost always tell you whether it's benign or malignant.
The ability of professionals and patients to play the system financially and to *exculpate addicts from responsibility will forever be aided by makeshift diagnoses which can neither be confirmed nor ruled out.
Richard E. Vatz, Towson
*exculpate: Verb - show or declare that (someone) is not guilty of wrongdoing.
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2010-11-08/news/bs-ed-pschiatric-diagnoses-letter-20101108_1_psychiatric-diagnoses-criteria-addictsNovember 08, 2010One of the few issues not thoroughly covered in Scott Calvert's... more
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Parents give children pills for everything from headaches to behavioral and mood disorders.
But do the kids really need them? Dr. Dennis Godby said he is seeing a lot of children who are put on a lot of different medications.
"It's really a shame the train wrecks of people I see coming in here," he said. Godby, a naturopathic doctor, said too many parents reach for the medicine cabinet too soon and too often.
A new government study found that in 2008, 22 percent of children under 12 and 33 percent of teens were prescribed at least one pharmaceutical.
Teenager Logan Moisey was diagnosed with depression last year and was prescribed antidepressants. He said his head was hurting, and he was feeling stressed and tired all the time.
Different medications were tried, but nothing was helping.
His mother, Julie Moisey, said her son's anger issues started with temper tantrums when he was younger. She said she started doubting doctors when one physician wanted to put her son on Ritalin when he was barely 3 years old.
She said she was afraid her son would do something drastic to escape the pain.
She took Logan to Godby looking for an alternative to prescription drugs.
Godby ran a series of tests and found Logan had hidden food allergies, hypoglycemia and weak adrenal glands. He said all of those factors contributed to the boy's illness.
Gobdy changed the boy's diet, cutting out wheat, dairy and eggs. He also prescribed a series of naturopathic medicines.
The teen said he now feels fine, and is doing well in school.
http://www.kcra.com/r/25763102/detail.htmlSACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Parents give children pills for everything from headaches to... more
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Forest Laboratories is reaching settlements in a host of wrongful death and personal injury lawsuits filed by parents of children who took their antidepressants.
The New York-based pharmaceutical is taking the step a month after its St. Louis-based subsidiary, Forest Pharmaceuticals, pleaded guilty to criminal charges and agreed to pay more than $300 million in penalties stemming from its marketing and manufacturing practices. More than 50 lawsuits accuse Forest of concealing negative pediatric studies of the drug Celexa and aggressively marketing Celexa and its sister drug, Lexapro.
http://www.missourinet.com/2010/10/30/forest-laboratories-settling-host-of-lawsuits/Forest Laboratories is reaching settlements in a host of wrongful death and personal... more
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A recent USA Today sponsored review of the FDA database from 2000 to 2004 found at least 45 deaths in children under 18 with atypical antipsychotics listed as the "primary suspect," and 1,328 reports of other serious side effects, some life-threatening.
Among the 45 deaths, discussed in the May 2, 2006, USA article, at least six were related to diabetes, and other causes ranged from heart and pulmonary problems to choking, liver failure and suicide.
An 8-year-old boy died of cardiac arrest. A 15-year-old boy died of an overdose and a 13-year-old girl experienced diabetic ketoacidosis, a deficiency of insulin. The youngest child was 4, with symptoms that indicated diabetes complications.
The most common adverse reactions reported were:
* A condition known as dystonia, which produces involuntary, and often painful muscle spasms, was the most common side effect with 103 cases.
* Tremors, weight gain, sedation, and other neurological effects with symptoms that varied from slight twitching to full-blown body jerking.
* The neuroleptic malignant syndrome showed up in 41 children, and was the most troubling side effect, according to child psychiatrist Joseph Penn, of Bradley Hospital and Brown University School of Medicine, because it can kill within 24 hours.
Judging by third quarter earning reports for 2005, fifteen years of negative studies have had no effect on sales that show:
Seroquel, $706 million, up 32%
Abilify, $206 million, up 58%
Geodon, $148 million, up 18%
Zyprexa, $1.035 billion, up 1%
In a disgusting twist of fate, Zyprexa's maker, Eli Lilly's diabetes drugs earned $653 million, up 13% when Zyprexa has consistently been found to be most likely drug to cause weight gain and high blood sugar leading to diabetes.
Read Full Article: http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/articles/00183/antipsychotics.htmlA recent USA Today sponsored review of the FDA database from 2000 to 2004 found at... more
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Kyle Warren of Opelousas, La., was given antipsychotic drugs at 18 months of age to mollify temper tantrums. By the time he was 3, reports the New York Times, Kyle had been diagnosed with autism, bipolar disorder, hyperactivity, insomnia and oppositional defiant disorder. The medicines he was prescribed turned the boy into “a drooling, sedated, overweight zombie,” says his mother. Such cases have caused numerous experts to question whether antipsychotics for toddlers pose more risk than reward.
Antipsychotic prescriptions double without proper assessment
According to a September 2009 study by the Food and Drug Administration, more than 500,000 children and adolescents are on antipsychotic drugs. ...the study indicates that “tens of thousands” of preschoolers are becoming customers of big pharmaceutical companies.
The Times cites a troubling Columbia University study that shows that the rate of antipsychotics prescribed for toddlers (privately insured, ages 2 to 5) doubled from 2000 to 2007. Of those children included in the survey, only 40 percent actually received what is considered a proper mental health assessment as defined by the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
Read Full Story: http://personalmoneystore.com/moneyblog/2010/09/02/antipsychotics-for-toddlers/Kyle Warren of Opelousas, La., was given antipsychotic drugs at 18 months of age to... more
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Please, don't sit on this information. - If you're reading this, comment & pass this along to parents.
February 08, 2010 - Greed is Behind Skyrocketing Prescriptions of Antipsychotic Drugs to Children!
Risperdal is not only being given to elderly patients with dementia causing death but to children as well. The more I research this drug, the more it sickens me.
500,000 children in the US are using behavior drugs such as Rispedal, Zyprexa, Abilify, and Geodon for behavior problems. Many of the these behavior problems such as eating disorders are 'off label' and are not approved uses for the drug.
Why in the last 10 years have drug prescriptions for children sky rocketed? The New York Times in 2006 investigated this trend and published its findings. Their report should sicken anyone who reads it. It is apparent by this report, that greed is responsible for what is going on in this country by pharmaceutical companies and the physicians who write these prescriptions. A small summary of this report is next. I invite you to read the whole report here so that you will know what is behind the upsurge of drug prescriptions. Our beloved physicians are being bought out by the drug companies at your expense and your children's.
Read Full Article: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2678917/risperdal_antipsychotic_drugs_dangerous.htmlPlease, don't sit on this information. - If you're reading this, comment... more
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A former vice president and associate general counsel for the British pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline has been indicted on charges of making false statements and obstructing a federal investigation into illegal drug marketing, the Justice Department announced on Tuesday.
The criminal charges are part of the government’s long-promised crackdown on individual executives for their roles in pharmaceutical company cases, which have resulted in billions of dollars in fines and payments by the companies.
Lauren C. Stevens of Durham, N.C., is accused of lying to the Food and Drug Administration in a series of letters in 2003 denying the company had promoted a drug for off-label uses, according to federal prosecutors. She had claimed the company did not have promotional slides the F.D.A. had sought during its investigation, the indictment said. The antidepressant drug Wellbutrin was promoted for weight loss.
http://prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/09/former-glaxo-lawyer-indicted/?partner=rss&emc=rss
http://www.seeklogo.com/images/G/GlaxoSmithKline-logo-4C5535BDC7-seeklogo.com.gifA former vice president and associate general counsel for the British pharmaceutical... more
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In 2001, following the birth of baby boy and the death of her mother, Christian Delahunty started taking the antidepressant Effexor. In 2007, Christian asked her doctor if she needed to stop taking Effexor because she wanted another baby.
Christian's doctor told her that there were no studies showing Effexor even gets to the baby during pregnacy or breastfeeding, and that it would be okay to stay on it.
July 26, 2008, Christian goes into premature labor.
The atteding doctor found out she was on Effexor. Shocked, he called the neonatal intensive care unit and told them to get ready for an "Effexor baby".
Watch the video for the whole story.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LyJYAgwADMIn 2001, following the birth of baby boy and the death of her mother, Christian... more
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Boston, MA: Women who suffer from depression and are pregnant or planning on becoming pregnant must weigh the risk of Effexor side effects. Effexor side effects include a risk of Effexor birth defects, which has been the focus of potential Effexor lawsuits. Although a recent study has shown that some antidepressants are no more effective than a placebo at treating depression, there are also serious risks to being pregnant and having untreated depression. However, women who believe their children were born with Effexor birth defects (or other antidepressant birth defects), say they would not have taken the drug if they had known about the risks.
Read Full Article: http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/articles/15319/interview-effexor-birth-defects-pregnancy.htmlBoston, MA: Women who suffer from depression and are pregnant or planning on becoming... more
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Baltimore, MD: Could diabetes be added to the list of potential SSRI side effects? It is too soon to tell, but two new studies have found a connection between antidepressants and diabetes. Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) already carry a warning about the risk of SSRI birth defects. Those birth defects include persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn, also called PPHN. Although the recent studies do not prove that antidepressants cause type 2 diabetes, they do suggest a link.
One study, published in Diabetes Care (09/07/10), examined data from 150,000 adults in Finland. During the five-year period included in the study, 851 were diagnosed with diabetes and 9,197 were on continuing antidepressant medication. Researchers found that patients who took antidepressants were at an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Furthermore, as length of use increased, so did the likelihood of developing diabetes. A separate study of SSRIs produced similar results.
These recent studies might not make it any easier for pregnant women to determine whether or not the risks associated with taking antidepressants while pregnant outweigh the benefits. Although SSRI antidepressants carry a warning about the risk of SSRI birth defects when babies are exposed to the medications prior to birth, for many women the issue is not clear-cut.
Read Full Article: http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/articles/15189/interview-ssri-birth-defects-side-effects-pphn-2.htmlBaltimore, MD: Could diabetes be added to the list of potential SSRI side effects? It... more
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