GO, TEAM, GO!

[Guest guest]

TO ALL GOING TO THE FDA HEARING:

Unfortunately, we can not afford to go to DC for the upcoming FDA hearing.

Last we heard, Charlie Carpenter was going to go...he takes with him our

permission to speak of B.J. and his story - although he certainly has his own

issues with ADs and is certainly under no obligation to speak of B.J. Everyone

can feel free to give our email address to anyone you think might benefit from

having a conversation with us. We submitted B.J.'s story to the FDA around

Thanksgiving time, and had already posted messages to them twice in the past -

immediately after we joined the Crusaders and found out we could do so and

before the child/adolescent suicidality hearing.

We are thrilled beyong belief that the FDA is finally having a hearing to

disabuse people of the thought that these drugs are A-OK for adults. Our son was

21 and immediately had adverse reactions to Effexor XR - from the first dose.

There is no " magic age " at which these poisons become beneficial.

Please know that you all take with you our strongest prayers that you will be

successful; that eyes will be opened and ears will be able to hear the truth of

the tragedies that we have all endured. I love the " We are not anecdotes. We

matter. " button idea. Just the kind of catchy, sound-bite type message that

people can grasp. If anyone wants to pull B.J.'s picture off the Crusaders page

and put him on a button, please feel free. If anyone who is going would like a

copy of a flyer I put together about B.J., please email me off-group

(nandtbearden@...) and I will send it to you. We are just a middle class,

working family trying to put our daughter through college. (We earn too much for

financial aid, but not enough to be able to afford to pay hard, cold cash for

her college easily.)

We hope that someone, while urging the FDA to do the right thing about these

drugs, will be sure to mention that the last thing we need to do is abruptly

impose a ban. The people currently taking these meds will need a lot of help

getting off of them. They can not be thrown into the nightmare of abrupt

withdrawal. A black box warning is one step shy of a ban. We need to be

proactive and make sure there is a plan for helping people wean off their meds,

if a ban is discussed.

Finally, GO, TEAM, GO!!!! We are there with you in spirit. We appreciate your

efforts. We pray for success!

and Terry Bearden

" ...There are certain things in our nation and in the world about which I am

proud to be maladjusted and about which I hope all men of good-will will be

maladjusted...Through such maladjustment, I believe that we will be able to

emerge from the bleak and desolate midnight of man's inhumanity to man into the

bright and glittering daybreak of freedom and justice. " - Dr. Luther

King, Jr. - December 18, 1963

---------------------------------

Any questions? Get answers on any topic at Answers. Try it now.