Thomas A Dorman MD

Examining the Scientific Evidence that Antidepressants Induce Suicide

SCHOOL SHOOTERS: PRESCRIBED MEDICATIONS INVOLVED.
Here are the last major school shooters and the link under each name is a reputable news source that connects them all with SSRI's (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) like Prozac, Ritalin, Zoloft, Luvox, Paxil, and others.

Akathisia is a subjective desire to be in constant motion. A manifestation of drug sensitivity, it may be confused with psychotic agitation, and incorrectly treated by increasing the dose of the offending medication.

The symptom subsides when the offending medication is discontinued and replaced by another one, better tolerated by the patient.

Psychiatric drugs are not alone in causing morbidity. In the United States, the fourth highest cause of death after heart disease, cancer and strokes are the adverse drug reactions. They are responsible for over 105,000 deaths per year and affect many more with their sublethal side effects.[i] If one adds improperly prescribed drugs and those taken incorrectly, adverse drug events (ADEs) become the third highest cause of death. A score of drugs licensed by the FDA in the 1990s have been withdrawn for lethal side effects that were noted in clinical trials but not disclosed to prescribers or patients. The recent withdrawal of Vioxx followed thousands of heart attacks and deaths. It was defended as ‘safe’ until two weeks before its withdrawal.

Chapter 11 by Peter R. Breggin, M.D.

All hypnotic-sedatives, including the minor tranquilizers, are habit forming and addictive and can produce withdrawal symptoms or an abstinence syndrome when they are stopped. In the extreme, the abstinence syndrome can cause life-threatening neurological reactions, including fever, psychosis, and seizures. Less severe withdrawal symptoms include increased heart rate and lowered blood pressure; shakiness; loss of appetite; muscle cramps; impairment of memory, concentration, and orientation; abnormal sounds in the ears and blurred vision; and insomnia, agitation, anxiety, panic, and derealization. Obvious withdrawal symptoms typically last two to four weeks. Subtle ones can last months.

A review and analysis: Peter R. Breggin

Abstract. Evidence from many sources confirms that selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) commonly cause or exacerbates wide range of abnormal mental and behavioral conditions. These adverse drug reactions include the following overlapping clinical phenomena: a stimulant profile that
ranges from mild agitation to manic psychoses, agitated depression, obsessive preoccupations that are alien or uncharacteristic of the individual, and akathisia. Each of these reactions can worsen the individual’s mental condition and can result in suicidality, violence, and other forms of extreme abnormal behavior. Evidence for these reactions is found in clinical reports, controlled clinical trials, and epidemiological studies in children and adults. Recognition of these adverse drug reactions and withdrawal from the offending drugs can prevent misdiagnosis and the worsening of potentially severe iatrogenic disorders. These findings also have forensic application in criminal, malpractice, and product liability cases.

Peter R. Breggin, M.D.

What your doctor may not know about:

• How psychiatric drugs really work
• Adverse drug effects on the brain and mind
• The role of the FDA
• Drug company practices
• Recent medical and legal developments
• Electroshock and psychosurgery

Peter R. Breggin, M.D. began the full time private practice of psychiatry in 1968. Dr. Breggin has been informing the professions, media and the public about the potential dangers of drugs, electroshock, psychosurgery, involuntary treatment, and the biological theories of psychiatry for over three decades. Since 1964 Dr. Breggin has been publishing peer-reviewed articles and medical books in his subspecialty of clinical psychopharmacology. He is the author of dozens of scientific articles and nineteen professional books, many dealing with psychiatric medication, the FDA and drug approval process, the evaluation of clinical trials, and standards of care in psychiatry and related fields.

Dr. Maris offers expert opinions in suicide death investigation, suicide risk assessment and prediction, contested life insurance, product liability (especially for psychotropic drugs), manner of death determination (suicide v. homicide v. accident), jail/prison suicides, hospital suicides, medical and psychological malpractice, workman compensation, murder-suicides, and the standard of care for suicidal patients/clients. The Suicide Center has affiliated physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, and social workers.

Presentation and References from Grace E. Jackson, M.D.

FDA Hearing on Stimulants – March 22, 2006
Grace E. Jackson, MD

In 1977, Drs. Vernon Fischer and Hendrick Barner wrote a Letter to the Editor at JAMA, in which they described the cellular changes associated with cardiomyopathy(enlarged heart) in a patient who had taken Ritalin for 4 ½ years. A tissue sample was obtained from the patient during open heart surgery.

That biopsy demonstrated abnormal membrane accumulations in the left ventricle. Curious to know if the Ritalin had played any role in these changes, Fischer later teamed with Theodore Henderson to conduct animal studies. A causal effect was confirmed. Ritalin in mice and rats produced the same kinds of membrane proliferation in the heart cells seen previously. These changes were consistent with the cardiomyopathy observed earlier in the human subject.

Part 1: The shocking true history of modern medicine and psychiatry (1833-1965)
Part 2: The shocking true history of modern medicine and psychiatry (1965-2005)

WARNING: What you are about to read is truly shocking. You have never been told this information by the American Medical Association, nor drug companies, nor the evening news. You were never taught the truth about conventional medicine in public school, or even at any university. This is the dark secret of the U.S. system of medicine, and once you read the true accounts reported here, you may never trust drug companies again. These images are deeply disturbing. We print them here not as a form of entertainment, but as a stern warning against what might happen to us and our children if we do not rein in the horrifying, inhumane actions of Big Pharma and modern-day psychiatry.

INSIGHT Magazine
June 28,1999 Kelly Patricia O'Meara

Though shocked by bizarre shootings in schools, few Americans have noticed how many shooters were among the 6 million kids now on psychotropic drugs.

National Alliance against Mandated Mental Health Screening and Psychiatric Drugging of Children

The DEA has classified Ritalin as a schedule two drug, comparable to Cocaine. Ritalin is also one of the top ten abused prescription drugs on the streets today.

There are many other drugs that are given to children for ADD and ADHD with different names. Amphetamine-type drugs such as Adderall, Concreta, Metadate, Ritalin and Dexedrine also antidepressant type drugs, Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRI), such as Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil and Luvox and the new selective norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors like Strattera which can cause serious side effects.

Citizens Commission on Human Rights Investigating and Exposing Psychiatric Human Rights Abuse