Warning: Anti-Depressants causing birth defects, miscarriages

'Pharmaceutical companies regularly embellish the benefits and downplay the dangers of anti-depressants, and all medications for that matter - but this time, their profits could be inadvertently endangering and even killing unborn infants. Senior doctors know it and are finally raising their voices.

Tufts University School of Medicine's Dr. Adam Urato decries the practice of prescribing SSRIs to pregnant women.'


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Antidepressants Could Make Your Brain Bleed, Cause Hemorrhagic Strokes

'Thickened arteries, heart disease, depression, suicide, and now, we can add bleeding of the brain to the long list of side effects of antidepressants. Though the risk is admittedly very small, researchers declared on Wednesday that selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) may raise the risk of hemorrhagic strokes, which happen when the brain bleeds.

SSRIs include a wide variety of common antidepressents, including Prozac, Zoloft, Celexa, and Paxil. These drugs are also linked to an increased risk of stomach bleeding.'


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'A shocking study that should have received serious attention from the press and doctors seems to have been ignored. It documents that the death rate of depressed people who take antidepressants is, on average, 1.6 times greater than those who don’t take them.

The respected journal, PLoS ONE, published the study in June 2010. It will come as no surprise that there was no pharmaceutical money funding the study. Performed in Australia, the study followed 5,276 men aged 68-88. It’s certainly true that depression can result in suicide.

The death rate of those diagnosed as depressed is significantly greater than others, and that mortality increases with increasing severity of depression. Those points were the authors’ focus. However, the study also shows that the men who are depressed and take tricyclic, SSRI, or any other antidepressants die at a significantly greater rate than those who don’t.'


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Antidepressants and School Shootings, Suicide, Addiction.

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Antidepressants Could Cause Harm to Heart, Brain, and Bones

'Did you know that roughly 10% of the American population suffers from depression? It isn’t exactly a coincidence, with the FDA approving a wide variety of damaging foods and drugs that many millions of Americans consume each day. The FDA isn’t helping the population with their approval of the dozens of antidepressant medications on the market – it in fact is doing the exact opposite.'


'At best, the tangible results felt by patients are comparable to sugar pills. That is to say, the medication itself does virtually nothing to improve the mood of the patient directly. At worst, antidepressants cause decreased mental stability. Wanting to kill yourself or others around you are feelings which antidepressants have been shown to ignite.'

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Depression is NOT a Chemical Imbalance Here is the PROOF !! Pharmaceutical Conspiracy !!

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Antidepressant Drugs: He Murdered a Friend After Taking Prozac

'A Canadian judge has ruled that a teenage boy murdered his friend because of the effects of Prozac. The ruling will not be appealed. The decision has revived the debate regarding the widespread prescription of antidepressants to young people. 

Justice Robert Heinrichs ruled that the 15-year-old boy was under the influence of the medication when he stabbed and killed a close friend. He was sentenced to 10 months on top of the two years he had already spent in jail. "Prozac is meant to curb the effects of depression, but Justice Heinrich concluded it set off a steady deterioration in the young murderer's behavior," 

CCHR1 reports: "He had become irritable, restless, agitated, aggressive and unclear in his thinking," the judge said. "It was while in that state he overreacted in an impulsive, explosive and violent way. Now that his body and mind are free and clear of any effects of Prozac, he is simply not the same youth in behavior or character." '

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Antidepressants Useless: FOIA Request Gets Data That Proves It

'It’s bad enough that antidepressants don’t work. But the fact that Big Pharma has known all along has now been proven. It took a Freedom of Information Act request to get the data, but now that we have it, there is no way that the mass use of antidepressants can possibly be justified, especially in light of the massive amount of harm they do. 

Irving Kirsch of Harvard Medical School has studied the placebo effect for over 30 years. He requested the data for studies that had not been published. When those results were added in, almost no benefit could be shown for antidepressants.'

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Antidepressants Increase Death Rate: Non-Pharma Funded Research

 

 Huge numbers of older men are dying from the use of antidepressants. A PLoS ONE study documents the extent of the carnage.

'A shocking study that should have received serious attention from the press and doctors seems to have been ignored. It documents that the death rate of depressed people who take antidepressants is, on average, 1.6 times greater than those who don't take them.'

 

 

'The respected journal, PLoS ONE, published the study in June 2010. It will come as no surprise that there was no pharmaceutical money funding the study. Performed in Australia, the study followed 5,276 men aged 68-88. The claim that depression is a deadly disease is true. The death rate of those diagnosed as depressed is significantly greater than others, and that mortality increases with increasing severity. Those points were the authors' focus. However, the study also shows that the men who are depressed and take trycyclic, SSRI, or any other antidepressants die at a significantly greater rate than those who don't.'


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by Dr. Mercola

The List of Terrifying Antidepressant Drug Side Effects Grows

'Depression—or described another way, "unrepaired emotional short-circuiting"— can cause far more profound negative health consequences than all the damaged food and toxins you expose yourself to daily.
Psychiatric drugs kill 42,000 people every year—that's 12,000 MORE people than successfully commit suicide due to depression! And the death count continues to rise.
Antidepressants are the largest category of psychiatric drugs. It wouldn't be so bad if antidepressants were harmless sugar pills, occasionally showing benefit simply because you believe they will work.
But in addition to being ineffective, they are far from harmless and are now associated with many serious health problems:'


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Researchers Push Treating Pregnant Women With Antidepressants: Pseudoscience Reaches New Heights in JAMA Report

 

'In the face of recent studies documenting birth defects and increases in miscarriages resulting from antidepressant use during pregnancy, researchers want to push these drugs on pregnant women.'

 

'A metastudy on the effects of depression in pregnant women found what the authors termed only "modest" risks of preterm and low birth weight infants. So, their conclusion is to screen all pregnant women for depression—and treat them with antidepressants. They didn't bother to consider the risks of antidepressants taken during pregnancy. They simply decided that depression in pregnant women, no matter what the cause, should be drugged, no matter how severe the adverse effects.'

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Why Antidepressants Don't Work for Treating Depression

How We have Been Deceived by the Antidepressant Hoax

by Dr. Mark Hyman

'Drug companies are not forced to publish all the results of their studies. They only publish those they want to. The team of researchers that reported their findings in The New England Journal of Medicine took a critical look at all the studies done on antidepressants, both published and unpublished. They dug up some serious dirt ...

The unpublished studies were not easy to find. The researchers had to search the FDA databases, call researchers, and hunt down hidden data under the Freedom of Information Act. What they found was stunning.

After looking at 74 studies involving 12 drugs and over 12,000 people, they discovered that 37 of 38 trials with positive results were published, while only 14 of 36 negative studies were published. Those that showed negative results were, in the words of the researchers, "published in a way that conveyed a positive outcome."

That means the results were twisted to imply the drugs worked when they didn't.'


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Antidepressants Delay Development in Newborns

'Exposure to antidepressants in late stages of pregnancy is linked to motor development problems particularly in boys, a new study finds.

Considering the high prevalence of depression during pregnancy, many expectant mothers use antidepressants even though their potential effects on the developing fetus remain unclear.

According to the study published in Pediatrics, newborns especially baby boys born to mothers, who used antidepressants during pregnancy, began to sit and walk later than those whose mothers had untreated depression.

Compared to their peers, these children were twice more likely to be unable to sit without support at the age of six. By the age of 19 months, they had attention problems and were unable to occupy themselves for longer than 15 minutes.

"The results of our study suggest an effect of antidepressant exposure on fetal brain development," concluded lead researcher Lars Henning Pedersen.'

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