In October 2004, the FDA added a black box warning about an increased risk of suicidality in children and adolescents after a review of data showed a doubling of the risk of suicidality associated with the drugs. However, In December 2006, the FDA's Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee held a public hearing to review the suicidality data on adults and recommended that the black box warning to be extended to them as well.
Unfortunately, it’s been discovered, that doctors encourage people to ignore these warnings and as would be expected, the manufacturer of these drugs deny the dangers altogether.
Recent, tragic, events of the last few years have brought to light something that is as great a threat as suicide. It’s homicide - in the form of school shootings and the killing of close family members and friends.
In September 2005, following confirmation that Red Lake Indian Reservation school shooter, Jeff Weise, was under the influence of the antidepressant Prozac, the National Foundation of Women Legislators, together with American Indian tribal leaders, called for a Congressional investigation into the correlation between psychiatric drug use and school massacres.
Congress has yet to investigate the role of psychiatric drugs relating to school shootings despite international drug regulators warning these drugs can cause mania, psychosis, hallucinations, suicide and homicidal ideation.
At least eight of the recent school shooters, like those at Columbine, were under the influence of such drugs. According to media reports, investigators working on the Virginia Tech school shootings, Cho Seung-Hui was taking drugs for "depression."
Part of the reason may be the disconnect with reality these drugs sometimes reportedly cause. In another study of the links between antidepressants and violence, a 12-year-old boy who killed his grandparents while he was on a course of antidepressants said that the whole incident seemed like a dream, and he was unsure whether or not it had really happened.
The Physicians' Desk Reference lists the following adverse reactions to antidepressants among a host of other physical and neuropsychiatric effects: manic reaction (mania), emotional lability (or instability), abnormal thinking, alcohol abuse, hallucinations, hostility, lack of emotion, paranoid reaction, amnesia, confusion, agitation, delirum, delusions, hysteria, psychosis, sleep disorders, abnormal dreams, and discontinuation (withdrawal) syndrome.
Adverse reactions are especially likely when starting or discontinuing the drug, increasing or lowering the dose or when switching from one SSRI to another SSRI. Adverse reactions are often diagnosed as bipolar disorder when the symptoms could be entirely iatrogenic (treatment induced). Withdrawal from any of these medications can also cause severe neuropsychiatric and physical symptoms.
In addition to the adverse reactions listed in the Physicians' Desk Reference, the FDA published a Public Health Advisory on March 22, 2004 which states (in part): "Anxiety, agitation, panic attacks, insomnia, irritability, hostility, impulsivity, akathisia (severe restlessness), hypomania, and mania have been reported in adult and pediatric patients being treated with antidepressants for major depressive disorder as well as for other indications, both psychiatric and nonpsychiatric.
The most shocking part of the psychiatric medical model is that prominent psychiatrist, Robert Spitzer M.D., one of the doctors who wrote the Diagnosis and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) admits that psychiatric diagnoses (depression, hyperactivity, ADHD, etc. ) are not based on science!
Anxiety, panic, learning disorders, ADHD, and depression are very real, painful conditions to the unfortunate children and adults suffering from them. However, these conditions, in most cases, are symptoms of underlying health problems brought on by specific causes and circumstance. The answer isn’t dangerous and unscientific diagnosis and drugs. There are real, safe solutions that lie outside of these deadly medications. Solutions that get to the underlying, complex cause of the problem and don’t simply attempt to chemically alter the mind to cover them up.
The Maximized Living Model includes nutritional care, toxicity issues –typically related to drugs and standard American nutrition, exercise, stress management, spinal corrective care, and counseling. Treatments that have no side effects and have been shown to have equal or greater results than drugs.
If you or your children are already taking a mind-altering drug, always consult an M.D. when coming off of them and never quit cold turkey.
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Anxiety, agitation, panic attacks, insomnia, irritability, hostility, impulsivity, akathisia, hypomania