Pharmaceutical companies have deliberately deceived the public

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ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RESEARCH PROTECTION (AHRP)

Promoting Openness and Full Disclosure

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FYI
 

At least 100 children have committed suicide while on an SSRI
antidepressant, hundreds more have attempted suicide.

Tonight at 10:00 PM, ABC Prime Time Live will reveal internal company
documents that show how pharmaceutical companies have deliberately deceived
the public, prescribing physicians, and parents by concealing. For example,
documents demonstrate how GlaxoSmithKline instructed their "detail" (sales)
staff to misrepresent the risks of suicide and severe withdrawal symptoms.

 

Documents such as the ones that will be shown by ABC help us understand why
prescribing doctors, patients, and families have known so little about
antidepressant drug withdrawal and dependence in children, adolescents, and
adults. 

 

The internal company documents to be shown by ABC date as far back as a 1997
safety review of Paxil / Seroxat, and include evidence of the company's
knowledge that the drugs don't demonstrate a benefit for children while
their sales representatives told doctors th edrugs were "remarkably
effective."

 

Company concealment of adverse drug effects-and FDA's silence about false
claims and deceptive advertising, which has resulted in additional
preventable human casualties--has been hugely profitable; which is why drug
manufacturers continue the practice. See:
http://www.ahrp.org/infomail/04/09/30.php.

 

Prime Time Live will let children who became suicidal after being prescribed
antidepressant, and parents whose children committed suicide on the drugs
tell their harrowing experience.

 

Dr. Joseph Glenmullen,* a national authority on antidepressants, who
teaches at Harvard Medical School and has a private practice at Harvard
Square, will be featured as well. Dr. Glenmullen's latest book has just been
released: The Antidepressant Solution: A Step by Step Guide to Safely
Overcome Antidepressant Withdrawal, Dependency, and "Addiction."

 

Because antidepressants can make patients violent as well as suicidal, Dr.
Glenmullen says that it is very important for patients and physicians to be
aware that withdrawal symptoms may occur. The Antidepressant Solution offers
physicians guidelines on how to monitor patients and ensure their safety.
Dr. Glenmullen has devised a 5-Step tapering program that is tailored to
individual needs.

1) evaluating whether a patient is ready to try tapering off an
antidepressant; 2) making the initial dosage reduction; 3) monitoring
withdrawal symptoms after a dosage reduction; 4) making additional dosage
reductions; and 5) finishing the taper. One of the most difficult aspects
of tapering antidepressants, according to Dr. Glenmullen, is how widely
patients vary in their susceptibility to withdrawal symptoms.

 

Like his earlier book, Prozac Backlash: Overcoming the Dangers of Prozac,
Zoloft, Paxil, and Other Antidepressants with Safe, Effective Alternatives,
the Antidepressant Solution provides authoritative, balanced information
about these drugs' hazards, explaining to patients and clinicians how the
drugs react chemically in the body, and what choices are available. Whereas
the earlier book informs readers of the many safe, effective alternatives to
using such drugs, the new book provides easy-to-follow instructions on how
patients can safely change doses or taper off antidepressants and still be
able to go about their daily lives.

 

Of note: When Prozac Backlash was published, Eli Lilly had its public
relations firm orchestrate a covert media campaign in an effort to discredit
Dr. Glenmullen. Academic psychiatrists who sent negative comments concealed
their financial ties to Lilly-just as they have helped conceal clinical
trial evidence. However, despite those underhanded tactics, Prozac Backlash
was a best-selling book that helped hundreds of thousands of patients-Dr.
Glenmullen's truth telling has been vindicated by the suppressed evidence
that continues to come to public light.

 

Dr. Glenmullen has recently joined the board of directors of The Alliance
for Human Research Protection.

 

 

Contact: Vera Hassner Sharav

212-595-8974

veracare@ahrp.org


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