Most of the calls that we get from family members of addicted people tell us that their loved one was put on an antidepressant at some point to try and treat the symptoms of their addiction. Time and again we try and help educate people on the truth about these drugs and how the only way to truly become drug free is to go through a drug-free program in the end.
More and more information continues to surface about the dangerous long-term effects of antidepressants and related psychiatric drugs. Below is a bit of recent information that was also made known through one of the most respected medical journals in the world.
Dr. Erick Turner was a former paid speaker by the pharmaceutical industry who developed a conscience and turned on his pharmaceutical masters. He spoke out against the products he’d been promoting. In the January 2008 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, he published an article telling the truth about one class of drugs, SSRI antidepressants, such as Prozac and Paxil. In interviews, he has spoken even more broadly, stating that the lack of efficacy of SSRIs is the “dirty little secret” of the psychiatric world.
The hidden studies that he was able to uncover consisted of 74 clinical trials, with 51% showing results that were better than placebo and 49% with negative or mixed results. In other words, about half the trials, though they’d been produced for drug corporations and most likely were attempting to produce the desired results of showing benefits, did nothing of the sort.
Armed with the smoking gun proof of negative trials being hidden, Turner produced a paper, “Selective Publication of Antidepressant Trials and Its Influence on Apparent Efficacy” for the New England Journal of Medicine. This time, he wasn’t ignored.
Daniel Carlat, assistant professor of psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine, himself once on the dole with Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, argues, “The fact that the negative trials can just be hidden away means that practicing doctors can get a very false notion of efficacy data for a drug. That’s the real crisis here.”
According to Mike Adams of Natural News, “The cat is now out of the bag regarding SSRIs. If they work, it’s only rarely. The known risks are extensive and appalling. Most, if not all, school shootings involved the use of SSRIs, or their next-generation offshoot, SNRIs. Suicide rates increase after starting them. Weight gain is often a problem, indicating a potential link to diabetes. Sleep disturbances and sexual dysfunction are fairly common. Many people have a great deal of difficulty withdrawing from these drugs. None of these problems were revealed during pre-approval clinical tests, but the fact that they’re common begs the question. How many trials showing these dangers were suppressed?”
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