Guest guest Posted December 1, 2004 Report Share Posted December 1, 2004 Dec. 1, 2004 Kathy Sawyer, Commissioner Alabama Department of Mental Health and Retardation Union Street Montgomery, Alabama RE: SSRI Iatrogenic Vasoconstriction and Agressive Behavior Commissioner Sawyer, The following e-mail explains that antidepressents cause vasoconstriction and agressive behavior. Does the Alabama Department of Mental Health complile data to document if Alabamians that are exhibiting agressive hehavior are taking SSRI's? Both my sister and my Mother have exhibited agressive behavior never exhibited before being prescribed SSRI's by the Madison County Mental Health Center commensing in 1995 and 1996. Vasoconstriction could also explain the two heart attacks Mother had while she was sick with cancer and diabetes that these drugs can also cause. Commissioner Sawyer, in my family my Mother has committed suicide while prescribed psychiatric medications and my sister was rendered incapable of working for the rest of her life on full time social securitiy disabilily with Mediaid a year after becoming a patient at the Madison County Mental Health Center. While I won't expect there to be any honest soul searching and admitting the the drugs can cause symotoms in the patients recieving treatment at the Community Programs under your regulations, from the ever increasing patient population it's obvious that the current plan of only providing psychiatric medications for treatment, like in my family, doesn't help the problem. If the treatment that being funded by the taxpayers is resulting in more and more disabilities and the patients are expected to be psychiatric drug users for life, why hasn't the Ala. Dept. of Mental Health and Retardation pursued more effective and less expensive treatment methods? Thank you, Dr. Lance, D.C. Daughter of Alma Virginia Antidepressent Suicide Victim Former Patient of the Madison County Mental Health Center Regulated by the Alabama Department of Mental Health Kathy Sawyer, Commissioner S S R I W A R N I N G P U B L I C N O T I C E There is a class of drugs on the market for depression, anxiety, and a host of other mental health problems known as Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors, or SSRIs. You have heard of them: Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, Luvox, Celexa... to name just a few... If you are currently on one of these drugs, or if someone has mentioned to you that you should get on one of these drugs (your family physician, your friend, your relative), this notice is especially for you. SSRI theory is based on findings that depressed people have lower levels of the metabolite of the neurotransmitter serotonin. SSRI drugs block the re-uptake of serotonin in the brain, and thus, the level of serotonin increases in the brain, bringing about the " proper " neurotransmission necessary to alleviate the depression. This is a horribly flawed theory! Some of what the companies manufacturing these SSRI's, and what doctors prescribing this medication will very likely NOT tell you is this: The Merriam-Webster online dictionary defines serotonin as, " a powerful vasoconstrictor " , which is what it was discovered to be in 1948. A vasoconstrictor is an agent which constricts blood vessels and blood flow. So while shoring up enough of the neurotransmitter serotonin in the brain to alleviate depression, the person taking one of these drugs is also shoring up enough of the vasoconstrictor - serotonin, to substantially decrease blood flow in the brain- a serious and sometimes deadly oversight. And, as the delicate chemical balances in each of our brains is as unique to each person as his or her fingerprints, it's no surprise the adverse reactions reported with these drugs can vary to extremes. Some people have seizures while either actively taking, or while withdrawing from these drugs. Some people have had strokes after taking them, due to the vasoconstrictive action of too high a serotonin level. Some experience a complete personality change. But another serious casualty of this decrease in blood flow concerns the area of the brain responsible for self-control. This is why nearly every time you hear of some random, violent act such as a school or office shooting, the people going into these homicidal rages have been found to be on an SSRI over 95% of the time. Columbine High School? One of those kids was taking Luvox. The Atlanta day trader who shot up his office? Prozac. Kip Kinkel? Prozac. McDermott in Boston? Paxil and Prozac. Phil Hartman's wife Brynn had been taking Zoloft before killing her husband and herself. These are just to name a few. A jury in Gillette Wyoming determined that Paxil was to blame for a triple murder/suicide. The plaintiffs have been awarded an $8 million dollar settlement in this case which just hit the media during the first week of June 2001. Unfortunately a money settlement, no matter how large can ever bring back four precious human lives! In another case in Australia, a supreme court judge found Zoloft to be the reason a fellow murdered his wife of over 30 years... For every one of those incidents you have heard about, there are fifty such incidents that didn't make the national news. But wouldn't the FDA keep something like this off the market? No. There is simply too much political and financial interest in the profits from these drugs. Your consumer protection when it comes to this class of drugs are just not there. People within the FDA who have dared to voice opposition to these drugs during the approval processes have found themselves without their jobs. During trials to determine the safety of Prozac, when subjects were reported to have become suicidal on the drug, a memo surfaced, ordering the language in the report changed from " suicidal " to " depressed " . Further, the FDA issues " conflict of interest waivers " to drug company doctors and researchers during the approval processes for these drugs. For example, in the case of Paxil, every single one of the " experts " on the panel with the authority to approve or disapprove Paxil had been granted this, " conflict of interest waiver " by the FDA director. As a result, Paxil was approved as safe. Safe, for say, a mother of four driving her kids down the interstate at 75 mph - while the Federal Aviation Administration will not grant a pilot's license to anyone on Paxil, because the seizures and sudden involuntary movements it can cause may cause a pilot to crash a plane. We say SSRI's are NOT safe, and there is account upon account to back it up. Just who are 'WE', you might be asking yourself... We are a group of people who have taken these drugs, only to have them upend our lives in a variety of some of the worst ways imaginable. And we want you to know what they do. For further information, please see the following websites and the links they offer: http://www.drugawareness.org/home.html http://www.prozactruth.com http://www.justiceseekers.org http://www.breggin.com http://nomorefakenews.com http://www.adhdfraud.org http://www.nofreelunch.org http://www.pssg.org http://www2.netdoor.com/~bill/prosurv/prosurv.html http://www.othersideresource.com/reading/car.shtml http://home.kscable.com/madpride/frame_docs/1st_idx_4th.html File - Public Notice - Dangers of SSRIs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 1, 2004 Report Share Posted December 1, 2004 Dec. 1, 2004 Kathy Sawyer, Commissioner Alabama Department of Mental Health and Retardation Union Street Montgomery, Alabama RE: SSRI Iatrogenic Vasoconstriction and Agressive Behavior Commissioner Sawyer, The following e-mail explains that antidepressents cause vasoconstriction and agressive behavior. Does the Alabama Department of Mental Health complile data to document if Alabamians that are exhibiting agressive hehavior are taking SSRI's? Both my sister and my Mother have exhibited agressive behavior never exhibited before being prescribed SSRI's by the Madison County Mental Health Center commensing in 1995 and 1996. Vasoconstriction could also explain the two heart attacks Mother had while she was sick with cancer and diabetes that these drugs can also cause. Commissioner Sawyer, in my family my Mother has committed suicide while prescribed psychiatric medications and my sister was rendered incapable of working for the rest of her life on full time social securitiy disabilily with Mediaid a year after becoming a patient at the Madison County Mental Health Center. While I won't expect there to be any honest soul searching and admitting the the drugs can cause symotoms in the patients recieving treatment at the Community Programs under your regulations, from the ever increasing patient population it's obvious that the current plan of only providing psychiatric medications for treatment, like in my family, doesn't help the problem. If the treatment that being funded by the taxpayers is resulting in more and more disabilities and the patients are expected to be psychiatric drug users for life, why hasn't the Ala. Dept. of Mental Health and Retardation pursued more effective and less expensive treatment methods? Thank you, Dr. Lance, D.C. Daughter of Alma Virginia Antidepressent Suicide Victim Former Patient of the Madison County Mental Health Center Regulated by the Alabama Department of Mental Health Kathy Sawyer, Commissioner S S R I W A R N I N G P U B L I C N O T I C E There is a class of drugs on the market for depression, anxiety, and a host of other mental health problems known as Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors, or SSRIs. You have heard of them: Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, Luvox, Celexa... to name just a few... If you are currently on one of these drugs, or if someone has mentioned to you that you should get on one of these drugs (your family physician, your friend, your relative), this notice is especially for you. SSRI theory is based on findings that depressed people have lower levels of the metabolite of the neurotransmitter serotonin. SSRI drugs block the re-uptake of serotonin in the brain, and thus, the level of serotonin increases in the brain, bringing about the " proper " neurotransmission necessary to alleviate the depression. This is a horribly flawed theory! Some of what the companies manufacturing these SSRI's, and what doctors prescribing this medication will very likely NOT tell you is this: The Merriam-Webster online dictionary defines serotonin as, " a powerful vasoconstrictor " , which is what it was discovered to be in 1948. A vasoconstrictor is an agent which constricts blood vessels and blood flow. So while shoring up enough of the neurotransmitter serotonin in the brain to alleviate depression, the person taking one of these drugs is also shoring up enough of the vasoconstrictor - serotonin, to substantially decrease blood flow in the brain- a serious and sometimes deadly oversight. And, as the delicate chemical balances in each of our brains is as unique to each person as his or her fingerprints, it's no surprise the adverse reactions reported with these drugs can vary to extremes. Some people have seizures while either actively taking, or while withdrawing from these drugs. Some people have had strokes after taking them, due to the vasoconstrictive action of too high a serotonin level. Some experience a complete personality change. But another serious casualty of this decrease in blood flow concerns the area of the brain responsible for self-control. This is why nearly every time you hear of some random, violent act such as a school or office shooting, the people going into these homicidal rages have been found to be on an SSRI over 95% of the time. Columbine High School? One of those kids was taking Luvox. The Atlanta day trader who shot up his office? Prozac. Kip Kinkel? Prozac. McDermott in Boston? Paxil and Prozac. Phil Hartman's wife Brynn had been taking Zoloft before killing her husband and herself. These are just to name a few. A jury in Gillette Wyoming determined that Paxil was to blame for a triple murder/suicide. The plaintiffs have been awarded an $8 million dollar settlement in this case which just hit the media during the first week of June 2001. Unfortunately a money settlement, no matter how large can ever bring back four precious human lives! In another case in Australia, a supreme court judge found Zoloft to be the reason a fellow murdered his wife of over 30 years... For every one of those incidents you have heard about, there are fifty such incidents that didn't make the national news. But wouldn't the FDA keep something like this off the market? No. There is simply too much political and financial interest in the profits from these drugs. Your consumer protection when it comes to this class of drugs are just not there. People within the FDA who have dared to voice opposition to these drugs during the approval processes have found themselves without their jobs. During trials to determine the safety of Prozac, when subjects were reported to have become suicidal on the drug, a memo surfaced, ordering the language in the report changed from " suicidal " to " depressed " . Further, the FDA issues " conflict of interest waivers " to drug company doctors and researchers during the approval processes for these drugs. For example, in the case of Paxil, every single one of the " experts " on the panel with the authority to approve or disapprove Paxil had been granted this, " conflict of interest waiver " by the FDA director. As a result, Paxil was approved as safe. Safe, for say, a mother of four driving her kids down the interstate at 75 mph - while the Federal Aviation Administration will not grant a pilot's license to anyone on Paxil, because the seizures and sudden involuntary movements it can cause may cause a pilot to crash a plane. We say SSRI's are NOT safe, and there is account upon account to back it up. Just who are 'WE', you might be asking yourself... We are a group of people who have taken these drugs, only to have them upend our lives in a variety of some of the worst ways imaginable. And we want you to know what they do. For further information, please see the following websites and the links they offer: http://www.drugawareness.org/home.html http://www.prozactruth.com http://www.justiceseekers.org http://www.breggin.com http://nomorefakenews.com http://www.adhdfraud.org http://www.nofreelunch.org http://www.pssg.org http://www2.netdoor.com/~bill/prosurv/prosurv.html http://www.othersideresource.com/reading/car.shtml http://home.kscable.com/madpride/frame_docs/1st_idx_4th.html File - Public Notice - Dangers of SSRIs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 1, 2004 Report Share Posted December 1, 2004 Dec. 1, 2004 Kathy Sawyer, Commissioner Alabama Department of Mental Health and Retardation Union Street Montgomery, Alabama RE: SSRI Iatrogenic Vasoconstriction and Agressive Behavior Commissioner Sawyer, The following e-mail explains that antidepressents cause vasoconstriction and agressive behavior. Does the Alabama Department of Mental Health complile data to document if Alabamians that are exhibiting agressive hehavior are taking SSRI's? Both my sister and my Mother have exhibited agressive behavior never exhibited before being prescribed SSRI's by the Madison County Mental Health Center commensing in 1995 and 1996. Vasoconstriction could also explain the two heart attacks Mother had while she was sick with cancer and diabetes that these drugs can also cause. Commissioner Sawyer, in my family my Mother has committed suicide while prescribed psychiatric medications and my sister was rendered incapable of working for the rest of her life on full time social securitiy disabilily with Mediaid a year after becoming a patient at the Madison County Mental Health Center. While I won't expect there to be any honest soul searching and admitting the the drugs can cause symotoms in the patients recieving treatment at the Community Programs under your regulations, from the ever increasing patient population it's obvious that the current plan of only providing psychiatric medications for treatment, like in my family, doesn't help the problem. If the treatment that being funded by the taxpayers is resulting in more and more disabilities and the patients are expected to be psychiatric drug users for life, why hasn't the Ala. Dept. of Mental Health and Retardation pursued more effective and less expensive treatment methods? Thank you, Dr. Lance, D.C. Daughter of Alma Virginia Antidepressent Suicide Victim Former Patient of the Madison County Mental Health Center Regulated by the Alabama Department of Mental Health Kathy Sawyer, Commissioner S S R I W A R N I N G P U B L I C N O T I C E There is a class of drugs on the market for depression, anxiety, and a host of other mental health problems known as Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors, or SSRIs. You have heard of them: Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, Luvox, Celexa... to name just a few... If you are currently on one of these drugs, or if someone has mentioned to you that you should get on one of these drugs (your family physician, your friend, your relative), this notice is especially for you. SSRI theory is based on findings that depressed people have lower levels of the metabolite of the neurotransmitter serotonin. SSRI drugs block the re-uptake of serotonin in the brain, and thus, the level of serotonin increases in the brain, bringing about the " proper " neurotransmission necessary to alleviate the depression. This is a horribly flawed theory! Some of what the companies manufacturing these SSRI's, and what doctors prescribing this medication will very likely NOT tell you is this: The Merriam-Webster online dictionary defines serotonin as, " a powerful vasoconstrictor " , which is what it was discovered to be in 1948. A vasoconstrictor is an agent which constricts blood vessels and blood flow. So while shoring up enough of the neurotransmitter serotonin in the brain to alleviate depression, the person taking one of these drugs is also shoring up enough of the vasoconstrictor - serotonin, to substantially decrease blood flow in the brain- a serious and sometimes deadly oversight. And, as the delicate chemical balances in each of our brains is as unique to each person as his or her fingerprints, it's no surprise the adverse reactions reported with these drugs can vary to extremes. Some people have seizures while either actively taking, or while withdrawing from these drugs. Some people have had strokes after taking them, due to the vasoconstrictive action of too high a serotonin level. Some experience a complete personality change. But another serious casualty of this decrease in blood flow concerns the area of the brain responsible for self-control. This is why nearly every time you hear of some random, violent act such as a school or office shooting, the people going into these homicidal rages have been found to be on an SSRI over 95% of the time. Columbine High School? One of those kids was taking Luvox. The Atlanta day trader who shot up his office? Prozac. Kip Kinkel? Prozac. McDermott in Boston? Paxil and Prozac. Phil Hartman's wife Brynn had been taking Zoloft before killing her husband and herself. These are just to name a few. A jury in Gillette Wyoming determined that Paxil was to blame for a triple murder/suicide. The plaintiffs have been awarded an $8 million dollar settlement in this case which just hit the media during the first week of June 2001. Unfortunately a money settlement, no matter how large can ever bring back four precious human lives! In another case in Australia, a supreme court judge found Zoloft to be the reason a fellow murdered his wife of over 30 years... For every one of those incidents you have heard about, there are fifty such incidents that didn't make the national news. But wouldn't the FDA keep something like this off the market? No. There is simply too much political and financial interest in the profits from these drugs. Your consumer protection when it comes to this class of drugs are just not there. People within the FDA who have dared to voice opposition to these drugs during the approval processes have found themselves without their jobs. During trials to determine the safety of Prozac, when subjects were reported to have become suicidal on the drug, a memo surfaced, ordering the language in the report changed from " suicidal " to " depressed " . Further, the FDA issues " conflict of interest waivers " to drug company doctors and researchers during the approval processes for these drugs. For example, in the case of Paxil, every single one of the " experts " on the panel with the authority to approve or disapprove Paxil had been granted this, " conflict of interest waiver " by the FDA director. As a result, Paxil was approved as safe. Safe, for say, a mother of four driving her kids down the interstate at 75 mph - while the Federal Aviation Administration will not grant a pilot's license to anyone on Paxil, because the seizures and sudden involuntary movements it can cause may cause a pilot to crash a plane. We say SSRI's are NOT safe, and there is account upon account to back it up. Just who are 'WE', you might be asking yourself... We are a group of people who have taken these drugs, only to have them upend our lives in a variety of some of the worst ways imaginable. And we want you to know what they do. For further information, please see the following websites and the links they offer: http://www.drugawareness.org/home.html http://www.prozactruth.com http://www.justiceseekers.org http://www.breggin.com http://nomorefakenews.com http://www.adhdfraud.org http://www.nofreelunch.org http://www.pssg.org http://www2.netdoor.com/~bill/prosurv/prosurv.html http://www.othersideresource.com/reading/car.shtml http://home.kscable.com/madpride/frame_docs/1st_idx_4th.html File - Public Notice - Dangers of SSRIs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 1, 2004 Report Share Posted December 1, 2004 Dec. 1, 2004 Kathy Sawyer, Commissioner Alabama Department of Mental Health and Retardation Union Street Montgomery, Alabama RE: SSRI Iatrogenic Vasoconstriction and Agressive Behavior Commissioner Sawyer, The following e-mail explains that antidepressents cause vasoconstriction and agressive behavior. Does the Alabama Department of Mental Health complile data to document if Alabamians that are exhibiting agressive hehavior are taking SSRI's? Both my sister and my Mother have exhibited agressive behavior never exhibited before being prescribed SSRI's by the Madison County Mental Health Center commensing in 1995 and 1996. Vasoconstriction could also explain the two heart attacks Mother had while she was sick with cancer and diabetes that these drugs can also cause. Commissioner Sawyer, in my family my Mother has committed suicide while prescribed psychiatric medications and my sister was rendered incapable of working for the rest of her life on full time social securitiy disabilily with Mediaid a year after becoming a patient at the Madison County Mental Health Center. While I won't expect there to be any honest soul searching and admitting the the drugs can cause symotoms in the patients recieving treatment at the Community Programs under your regulations, from the ever increasing patient population it's obvious that the current plan of only providing psychiatric medications for treatment, like in my family, doesn't help the problem. If the treatment that being funded by the taxpayers is resulting in more and more disabilities and the patients are expected to be psychiatric drug users for life, why hasn't the Ala. Dept. of Mental Health and Retardation pursued more effective and less expensive treatment methods? Thank you, Dr. Lance, D.C. Daughter of Alma Virginia Antidepressent Suicide Victim Former Patient of the Madison County Mental Health Center Regulated by the Alabama Department of Mental Health Kathy Sawyer, Commissioner S S R I W A R N I N G P U B L I C N O T I C E There is a class of drugs on the market for depression, anxiety, and a host of other mental health problems known as Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors, or SSRIs. You have heard of them: Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, Luvox, Celexa... to name just a few... If you are currently on one of these drugs, or if someone has mentioned to you that you should get on one of these drugs (your family physician, your friend, your relative), this notice is especially for you. SSRI theory is based on findings that depressed people have lower levels of the metabolite of the neurotransmitter serotonin. SSRI drugs block the re-uptake of serotonin in the brain, and thus, the level of serotonin increases in the brain, bringing about the " proper " neurotransmission necessary to alleviate the depression. This is a horribly flawed theory! Some of what the companies manufacturing these SSRI's, and what doctors prescribing this medication will very likely NOT tell you is this: The Merriam-Webster online dictionary defines serotonin as, " a powerful vasoconstrictor " , which is what it was discovered to be in 1948. A vasoconstrictor is an agent which constricts blood vessels and blood flow. So while shoring up enough of the neurotransmitter serotonin in the brain to alleviate depression, the person taking one of these drugs is also shoring up enough of the vasoconstrictor - serotonin, to substantially decrease blood flow in the brain- a serious and sometimes deadly oversight. And, as the delicate chemical balances in each of our brains is as unique to each person as his or her fingerprints, it's no surprise the adverse reactions reported with these drugs can vary to extremes. Some people have seizures while either actively taking, or while withdrawing from these drugs. Some people have had strokes after taking them, due to the vasoconstrictive action of too high a serotonin level. Some experience a complete personality change. But another serious casualty of this decrease in blood flow concerns the area of the brain responsible for self-control. This is why nearly every time you hear of some random, violent act such as a school or office shooting, the people going into these homicidal rages have been found to be on an SSRI over 95% of the time. Columbine High School? One of those kids was taking Luvox. The Atlanta day trader who shot up his office? Prozac. Kip Kinkel? Prozac. McDermott in Boston? Paxil and Prozac. Phil Hartman's wife Brynn had been taking Zoloft before killing her husband and herself. These are just to name a few. A jury in Gillette Wyoming determined that Paxil was to blame for a triple murder/suicide. The plaintiffs have been awarded an $8 million dollar settlement in this case which just hit the media during the first week of June 2001. Unfortunately a money settlement, no matter how large can ever bring back four precious human lives! In another case in Australia, a supreme court judge found Zoloft to be the reason a fellow murdered his wife of over 30 years... For every one of those incidents you have heard about, there are fifty such incidents that didn't make the national news. But wouldn't the FDA keep something like this off the market? No. There is simply too much political and financial interest in the profits from these drugs. Your consumer protection when it comes to this class of drugs are just not there. People within the FDA who have dared to voice opposition to these drugs during the approval processes have found themselves without their jobs. During trials to determine the safety of Prozac, when subjects were reported to have become suicidal on the drug, a memo surfaced, ordering the language in the report changed from " suicidal " to " depressed " . Further, the FDA issues " conflict of interest waivers " to drug company doctors and researchers during the approval processes for these drugs. For example, in the case of Paxil, every single one of the " experts " on the panel with the authority to approve or disapprove Paxil had been granted this, " conflict of interest waiver " by the FDA director. As a result, Paxil was approved as safe. Safe, for say, a mother of four driving her kids down the interstate at 75 mph - while the Federal Aviation Administration will not grant a pilot's license to anyone on Paxil, because the seizures and sudden involuntary movements it can cause may cause a pilot to crash a plane. We say SSRI's are NOT safe, and there is account upon account to back it up. Just who are 'WE', you might be asking yourself... We are a group of people who have taken these drugs, only to have them upend our lives in a variety of some of the worst ways imaginable. And we want you to know what they do. For further information, please see the following websites and the links they offer: http://www.drugawareness.org/home.html http://www.prozactruth.com http://www.justiceseekers.org http://www.breggin.com http://nomorefakenews.com http://www.adhdfraud.org http://www.nofreelunch.org http://www.pssg.org http://www2.netdoor.com/~bill/prosurv/prosurv.html http://www.othersideresource.com/reading/car.shtml http://home.kscable.com/madpride/frame_docs/1st_idx_4th.html File - Public Notice - Dangers of SSRIs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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