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| Yahoo News WASHINGTON - Some anti-depressant drugs undergoing trials in children may be associated with suicides, the Food and Drug Administration (news - web sites) said Monday. The agency said reports in the press and medical journals describe suicide attempts and suicides in children receiving antidepressants. Many such reports also have been submitted to the FDA. While the data do not clearly establish an association between the use of the drugs on trials and increased suicidal thoughts or actions by pediatric patients, FDA said it also is impossible to rule out an association. Determining if the drug was at fault is a problem, as suicide attempts also occur in patients with depression who are untreated. Nevertheless, the FDA said it is issuing a public health advisory to alert physicians to reports of suicidal thinking and suicide attempts in clinical studies of various anti-depressant drugs in pediatric patients. Currently only Prozac is approved for use in major depressive disorder among children, but physicians sometimes use other drugs approved for adults. The FDA said it has completed a preliminary review of reports for eight anti-depressant drugs — citalopram, fluoxetine, fluvoxamine, mirtazapine, nefazodone, paroxetine, sertraline, and venlafaxine — in tests in children. In addition to the advisory, the agency scheduled a meeting next February of its Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee and the Pediatric Subcommittee of the Anti-Infective Drugs Advisory Committee to discuss the question. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031027/ap_on_he_me/fda_suicide_warning_1 It was January 30, 2001, I lost my baby girl to Prozac. Anny Belle was 15 years old. She had never been depressed and would not have been prescribed the drug, as her doctor told me later. Anny self diagnosed her PMS from a television ad, and self prescribed someone else's Prozac, just to see if it would help her PMS. I didn't know, until the day of her funeral. I verified it with a friend of her's that she had been taking one a day for the last 4 days and we confirmed that only 4 pills were missing from the bottle. January 30th, she appeared ever so normal through out the day, but within a few minutes, something changed. She came home from next door, stopped in the living room, greeted me, shook the snow from her hair, walked through the house, talked to our dog on the way. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary. Moments later I heard a pop and called to her. No answer. As I went out the backdoor, she was already gone. Some would want to say it was a gun that killed her, but we don't need to outlaw guns. We need to outlaw the prescription medications that are killing hundreds of 1000's of our innocent family members each year. We need to outlaw the misrepresented television commercials that continue to promote these pharmaceutical drugs that cause short and long term side-effects, suffering and death. We need to outlaw the FDA who, under the cover, protection and funding of the pharmaceutical cartels, continue to utilize their power in allowing the continued testing of chemicals on humans. Money, power and greed have come before human life, liberty and freedom of good health. It was only 2 years ago the Prozac alone was a 5 BILLION dollar industry. Why is there so much depression that would constitute any medication being in such demand? "WHO REALLY IS THE FDA?" CLICK HERE TO GET AN IDEA AND WAKE UP. I had to wake-up, don't wait for a wake-up call like the one our family had. PROZAC: PANACEA OR PANDORA? Heads Up!!! |
