Dear Friends in CIP and CI, and list(s),

The new generation of ADs (antidepressants) have or had a link
to the natural biochemical state of the mind; implicating and
replicating natural hormones that the brain might have lost due to
depression, insomnia, and other genetic or environmental assaults,
some of which became a keyword and still are in American
medical practice today.

But as with all psychotropics there are serious, adverse SEs
(side effects) and it is understandable if you boost hormone
production in the brain, either by chemical means of enhancing
of increasing the hormone or synthetic simulation the outcome
remains "what happens?" We are in a race to cure all evils
without adequate testing, and the bottom line remains the
financial output and outcome always seems to outweigh the true
state of affairs.

For those in NIP (nonmalignant intractable pain) another
advantage for those on "opioid" therapy who also seem to have
a neurochemical deficiency (endorphins are underproduced or
cannot keep pace with the pain receptors crying out in
dysfunction for more relief) and that is that ADs increase or
potentiate the benefit of the opioid meaning if your PM
specialist is astute he or she will add an AD to treat the very
common depression that occurs with "chronic pain and illness"
and to increase the benefit of your pain therapy.

What we read below and have heard with another drug NOT
FDA approved for "pain" and a serious psychiatric disorder
termed "bipolar disorder" are that serious events may ensue;
homocidal ideation, suicidal ideation and suicide, psychosis,
the list goes on and on.

I wonder with all the hoopla and DEA prosecuting of
innocent physicians for "murder" for addicts abusing prescription
opioids, shooting them up, snorting them, STEALING THEM,
over ingesting the normal amount and mixing them with
crack cocaine, smack (heroin), and other substances such
as alcohol a LEGAL but LETHAL chemical substance, will the
next mode of "murder she wrote" be the physician who
prescribes an AD to the depressed mother facing divorce, or
the teenage boy who does not fit in with his peers, when they
take such medication for clinical depression and then go on
a shooting or killing spree. One asks is "rage" pent up as
a symptom of psychiatric dysfunction now accountable for
honest physicians who prescribe medication to "do no
harm" and give relief for the PAIN of living.

These stories are enough to fill volumes, one or two may
hit home, or remind you of a friend or neighbor. One asks again
am I better off without a medication? I cannot give you the
answer but to educate.

Many have fought me before when presenting very accurate
information on the thousands of medications used and abused
without insight, medical knowledge, but instead by drug
manufacturers who see the "marketability" the class action
suit on Neurontin has already paid out over 430 million dollars
a drop in the bucket for the profits of those still taking the
medication with serious adverse SEs including 2,000 suicides
yes 2,000 are far higher than the "piss in the bucket" paid out.
Its not worth it to take this drug off the market.

Are we looking for a miracle? The world has become complex,
out of control, the family unit is fragmented, the quick fix is not
an addict term but a term of living. What next?

Stay tuned, but don't change the channel. It's always best
to review your life, your needs, and your desired outcome. To
take the time to "know" what works, and if you are trying
anything new, to read all you can on it, talk to others, and ask
"how long has this drug been on the market?" You walk a fine
line; all the prior thoughts and beliefs of scientific knowledge
fall by the wayside.

As I posted today on "forced genocide or starvation of
thousands in Zimbabwe" while America is called "murderer" over
a woman who had braindeath 15 years ago and was "fed"
artificially for so long that thousands could be well fed 3 times
a day. The cart before the horse? Who cares if the cart is
empty?

A PFN to all...

Karen G.

But the Pills Your Mother Gives You...
Death, Depression and Prozac
By ALEXANDER COCKBURN
http://www.counterpunch.org/

(Thanks to CYN from OCPM for this link)

New Delhi, India.

Jeff Weise, teen slayer of ten, including himself, at the Red Lake
Indian reservation in northern Minnesota, was on Prozac, prescribed
by some doc. How did the consultation go? "Here Jeff, take these,
they may help you get over life's little problems, like the fact that
when you were 8 your dad committed suicide and when you were 10 your
cousin was killed in a car wreck that left your mom with partial
paralysis and an injured brain. And let's face it, Jeff, most likely
you'll never get off the res. You're here for the rest of your life."
Cut to a shot of the doc holding up a Prozac bottle, like the kindly
fellow in the white coat and mirrored headband in 1950s Lucky Strike
ads, telling us that Luckies were a fine way to soothe a raspy throat.

The minute the high command at Eli Lilly, manufacturer of Prozac, saw
those news stories about Weise you can bet they went into crisis
mode, and only began to relax when Weise's websurfs of neo-Nazi sites
took over the headlines. Hitler trumps Prozac every time,
particularly if it's an "Injun" teen ranting about racial purity. How
many times, amid the carnage of such homicidal sprees, do
investigators find a prescription for antidepressants at the murder
scene? Luvox at Columbine, Prozac at Louisville, Kentucky, where
Joseph Wesbecker killed nine, including himself. You'll find many
such stories in the past fifteen years.

By now the Lilly defense formula is pretty standardized:self-
righteous handouts about the company's costly research and rigorous
screening, crowned by the imprimatur of that watchdog for the public
interest, the FDA. And of course there's the bogus comfort of
numbers; if Lilly's pill factory had a big sign like MacDonald's, it
could boast Prozac: Billions Served.

Each burst in the sewage pipe brings a new challenge to Lilly's sales
force, which has had some heavy hitters down the years, including
George Herbert Walker Bush (onetime member of the Lilly board of
directors); former Enron CEO Ken Lay (onetime member of the board);
George W. Bush's former director of the Office of Management and
Budget, Mitch Daniels (a former senior vice president); George W.
Bush's Homeland Security Advisory Council member Sidney Taurel (a
Lilly CEO); or the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (a
recipient of Lilly funding).

At the turn of this year there was a five-alarm incident when the
British Medical Journal went back to the 1994 Wesbecker suit against
Lilly, reminding the world that the company had been involved in some
shifty footwork involving a back-door payoff to the plaintiffs in a
deal that successfully excluded from Judge John Potter's courtroom
the regulatory case history of Oraflex, a highly compromised Lilly
product, which displayed the company's supposed disclosures to the
FDA in an unpleasing light.

Lilly rose to the challenge, successfully persuading gullible
journalists that the real story concerned a lonely freelancer writing
for BMJ and not a powerful pharmaceutical company with a huge
advertising budget. The press dutifully shifted its focus from
Lilly's outrageous efforts to suppress evidence to the narrow
question of whether a piece of evidence had really been in the public
record in the years since 1997, when Judge Potter changed his verdict
to "dismissed as settled with prejudice," very far from the victory
Lilly had been claiming.

That's the trouble with time, as Paul Krassner joked about
Waldheimer's Disease, which is when you get old and forget you were a
Nazi. But it's never too late to review the origins of the Depression
Industry in the late 1980s, and the saga of what happened after three
Lilly researchers concocted a potion in the mid-1970s they christened
fluoxetine hydrochloride, later known to the world as Prozac.

Long years of rigorous testing? When Fred Gardner and I investigated
the selling of depression and Prozac in the mid-1990s, we found that
clinical trials excluded suicidal patients, children and the
elderlyoalthough once FDA approval was granted, the drug could be
prescribed for anyone. According to Dr. Peter Breggin, the well-known
psychiatrist who analyzed the FDA's approval of Prozac, it was based,
ultimately, on three studies indicating that fluoxetine relieved some
symptoms of depression more effectively than a placebo, and in the
face of nine studies indicating no positive effect. Only sixty- three
patients were on fluoxetine (fluoexetine hydrochloride was branded as
Prozac in the mid 70s) for a period of more than two years. By 1988
the National Institute of Mental Health had not only put the
government stamp of approval on corporate-funded depression research
but had created a mechanism whereby government money and personnel
could be employed to stimulate demand for corporate products.

Psychiatrists--a breed whose adepts, so stated a study published in
the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry in 1980, commit suicide at twice
the national rate--have been central to the entire enterprise. The
process linking their sorcery to the corporate bottom line has a
robust simplicity to it. As Prozac came off Lilly's research bench
and headed for the mass production line psychiatrists labored to
formulate a multitude of bogus pathologies to be installed in the
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, whose chief
editor in the 1980s was Robert Spitzer MD, an orgone box veteran and
adept copywriter skilled at minting new ailments for late twentieth-
century America and sanctioning treatment, medication, state funding
for the requisite pills (no expensive consultative therapy) and
reimbursement by insurance companies.

When detailed research showed likely linkage of Prozac to violent
acts. Lilly-liveried psychiatrists were there to douse the flames of
doubt. In 1991 the FDA's Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee
met to decide whether Prozac should carry a warning label about links
to suicide. Five out of the ten panel members (eight of whom were
shrinks) had active financial interests in the drugs the committee
was investigating, and all voted against requiring a warning, their
obvious conflicts duly sanitized by the toothless FDA. Other shrinks
in the hire of the drug companies urged ever wider application of
Prozac to remedy social angst, inclcluding plans for compulsory
Prozac-dosing of youngsters.

In 2000, when hundreds of farmers in the Indian state of Andhra
Pradesh were committing suicide because of neoliberal policies that
had destroyed their livelihoods, the state government announced it
was sending out a team of shrinks to determine why the farmers were
depressed. The implication was that these people were mentally
unstable. But in India credulity about the causes of depression is
not so far advanced. The plan provoked a storm of ridicule, and in
the elections that followed the Andhra Pradesh government, darling of
Western neoliberals, was duly trounced.

No such happy chance in the United States, where government is in the
pay of drug companies and prescriptions for antidepressants have long
since taken over from political manifestos that would cure depression
by collective social action. How they must have cheered at Eli Lilly
when the Senate wiped out Chapter 7 of the bankruptcy statutes,
fostering family violence, heightened crime and a vast new potential
market for Prozac and kindred potions at the stroke of a pen.









Karen Hallenbeck~Sikorsky~George BS,RN,UM,QC
Interqual Certified
Published Psychiatric Researcher
Advocate for those in CIP, HIV, Psychologic Pain
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in my heart that God's will created this group(s)
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