Warnings from the FDA Mandated Medication Guide on Antidepressants:
• thoughts about suicide or dying
• attempts to commit suicide
• new or worse depression
• new or worse anxiety
• feeling very agitated or restless
• panic attacks
• trouble sleeping (insomnia)
• new or worse irritability
• acting aggressive, being angry,
or violent
• acting on dangerous impulses
• an extreme increase in activity and
talking (mania)
• other unusual changes in behavior
or mood
Never stop an antidepressant medicine without first talking to a healthcare
provider. Stopping an antidepressant medicine suddenly can cause other
symptoms.
After Two Decades of Antidepressants – Most Prescribed Drug?- WHY??
This past week the CDC released some very shocking news – antidepressants
are now officially the most prescribed drugs on the market today.
And why is that news shocking? Let’s take a look at the facts:
#1 In 2004 the FDA began to warn the public that they were seeing an
increase in suicides among youth with the use of antidepressant medications.

#2 In 2005 the official warning came from the FDA that antidepressants
double the rate of suicide for those under age 18. This was a sweeping warning
for any antidepressant ever introduced to the market and any to ever be
approved in the future. (This warning was the next closest thing they could
impose next to an outright ban of the drugs.)
#3 The FDA also warned all users of these drugs at the same time that
any abrupt change in dose of one of these drugs, whether increasing or
decreasing the drug, could produce suicide, hostility or psychosis.
#4 In December 2006 the warning for increased suicide was extended by
the FDA to anyone under the age of 25.
#5 In August 2007 Dr. Thomas Insel, head of the National Institute of
Mental Health in speaking of new studies being conducted with the use of
Ketamine (“Special K” is the street name for this sister drug to PCP – Angel Dust)
in the treatment of depression said that antidepressants produce the same
effect as Ketamine. The only difference noted was that Ketamine produced these
effects instantly where antidepressants take a few weeks to produce that
effect. They were impressed that Ketamine would rid a patient of depression
immediately where the antidepressants would take several weeks to do the same, yet
when one is aware that Ketamine and PCP are dissociative anesthetics, no one
would expect the patient to FEEL anything! [For two decades I have warned
that these antidepressants are much too similar in action to the hallucinogens
PCP and LSD.]
#6 The news came out in January 2008 that the initial studies done on
antidepressants demonstrated that these drugs are of no more benefit than a
placebo. Why was no one aware of that? Doctors and patients were no aware of
this because the very large majority of the negative studies were never made
public.
#7 Although the benefit of antidepressants is non-existent, these drugs
have a very long list of serious and very deadly side effects.
#8 In a recent retrospective study out of Sweden they found that 85% of
those who committed had recently taken antidepressants.
#9 The most popular antidepressant on the market, Effexor, now has
“homicidal ideation” (obsessive/ruminating thoughts of killing and how to kill)
listed as a side effect. The manufacturer had this data for over a decade, yet
they chose to not disclose that until a few years ago. Before that warning
was added: [I will mention just a handful of cases of professionals who should
have known.]
Andrea Yates, a nurse, drowned her five children while taking this drug.
Then, while Andrea’s case was in court a female doctor in Illinois on the same
drug, killed one son and severely injured another. In Tennessee another female
doctor also on Effexor slit her 7 year old son’s throat and then her own.
And then it really hit home for Wyeth when one of their own employees,
Cassandra Burgess, whose job it was to take adverse reaction reports on Effexor was
killed along with her parents and daughter by her husband who was taking
Effexor. He then took his own life. So even though she heard the adverse reports
daily on Effexor she still missed the signs in her own husband (although they
were there if you knew what signs to look for) soon enough to save herself
and her family.
The role of the FDA is to judge the risk to benefit of medications. After
seeing the studies demonstrating no more benefit than a placebo, yet deadly
enough to produce brutal homicides, why are these drugs still on the market? And
why on earth are they the most popular medications?! And the biggest question
of all . . . WHY IS IT OKAY IN AMERICA OR ANYWHERE ELSE TO HAVE PRESCRIPTION
MEDICATIONS THAT CAN PRODUCE HOMICIDAL TENDENCIES AS A SIDE EFFECT
???????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We now have medical studies showing that antidepressants:
– are of no more benefit than a sugar pill
– produce fatal birth defects from heart malformations and PPH (Primary
Pulminary Hypertension)
– produce mania which includes: wild spending leading to bankruptcy, sexual
compulsions, pyromania leading to arson, another form of mania leads to
compulsions for alcohol
– keep patients from forming or maintaining meaningful romantic
relationships and that marriage relationships of 40 + years suddenly end with the
numbness that comes from these drugs thus destroying many families via divorce.
– increase chances of breast cancer by 7 times
– induce LSD flashbacks and LSD like reactions
– produce amazingly high incidents of psychotic breaks leading to an
increase in Bipolar Disorder of over 4000% in one decade!
– double the level of cortisol with one dose (steroid effect)
– produce Diabetes, Alzheimer’s, Autism, Fybromyalgia – all of which
have skyrocketed in the last two decades that these drugs have become so widely
used
– produce pedophilia while we now have an epidemic of female school
teachers seducing male students
– dramatically increase suicide
– so strongly affect memory that “amnesia” is listed as a “frequent”
side effect leaving many patients with severe memory loss and false memories
leading them to falsely accuse others of various abuses
– produce serious weight gain leading to many additional health problems
– reports are that approximately one third of pregnant women are now
taking antidepressants as their baby’s brains form in the womb leaving us to ask
what the end result might be
All of this helps to answer the question everyone is asking, “What on earth
is happening to our world?!”
And once again I ask the same question I have asked for two decades now,
“WHY are the antidepressants still on the market?”
[For any scientific material backing up ANY of the above statements please
feel free to contact me.]
Ann Blake-Tracy, PhD, Executive Director,
International Coalition for Drug Awareness