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By
Dr. Joseph Mercola
According to the first comprehensive scientific review to include
all available studies, including negative data that have long been
withheld from public scrutiny by the pharmaceutical industry, four
popular antidepressants being used to treat thousands of depressed
American children are unsafe, ineffective or both. Those antidepressants
are:
- Paxil
- Zoloft
- Effexor
- Celexa
This is damning evidence of the drug companies' patent disregard
for the safety of humans and focus on profits. GlaxoSmithKline was
found to be concealing evidence that shows that these drugs do not
benefit children in any way and only increase their risk of killing
themselves. This was confirmed in an article in the Canadian
Medical Journal.
Fortunately, the British medical journals are far more responsive
than the American ones. The Lancet’s editorial states:
- Research on SSRIs in children is marked by confusion, manipulation,
and institutional failure.
- In a global medical culture where evidence-based practice is
seen as the gold standard for care, these failings are a disaster.
- How confident is society that similar failings will not occur
on a larger scale in the future?
- Changes are required at every level of the global health-care
infrastructure
- Despite these findings, the FDA continues to support these worthless
antidepressants by claiming the failed trials don’t necessarily
mean the drugs are ineffective. Data has also confirmed that taking
SSRIs weren’t any better for you than taking a placebo.
Folks, if this doesn't make you fighting
mad, what will?
Just sit down and think about it for a moment. Drug companies do
the research and learn that the drugs don't work, yet are willing
to sell and market them to children even when it is clear that they
are causing many
children to commit suicide.
Unpublished studies of venlafaxine suggested the drug increased
suicide-related events such as suicidal thoughts or attempts by
14 times compared with placebo. This is reprehensible and despicable
behavior equivalent to any third-world dictator.
How can anyone possibly support this approach?
If this makes you one-tenth as angry as it does me, I encourage
you to do something practical about it. Tell several of your friends
and have them join
the newsletter so they can learn practical alternatives to the
ineffective and deadly solutions being manipulated onto us and our
children so these evil companies can earn more profit.
Rather than risking the potentially deadly side effects of these
drugs, I recommend the following three steps. The great majority
of patients at my clinic noticed
an amazing improvement in their depression when following them:
Popping pills is rarely the answer to helping children suffering
from depression; it is only a temporary Band-Aid. In order to truly
help these children, we need to focus on finding the underlying
cause of the problem, then search for ways to treat it.
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