July 20, 2002 16-Year-Old Boy Gets Prozac in Mail FYI The Associated Press reports: that a 16-Year-Old Boy who was never treated for depression received a month’s supply of Prozac in mail. “The Florida Attorney General has already issued subpoenas to Eli Lilly, Walgreen and S. K.’s doctors to determine…
Neil Bush: “My Son Was A Victim of School Rx: Ritalin”_NY Post Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 In a series of columns in The New York Post, Douglas Montero is exposing the Ritalin epidemic in America’ s schools. This irresponsible method of behavior control has been referred to as, “the…
Former President of Amer Heart Assoc Caught in Fraud Mon, 16 Dec 2002 The British Medical Journal reports about the FDA took action against American cardiologist Dr. David Faxon, immediate past president of the American Heart Association for medical ethics violations, such as: falsification of data, false claims about his…
What Parents Aren’t Being told about their Kids Antidepressants – A Suicide Side-Effect? – SF Chronicle Sat, 10 Jan 2004 An in-depth article in The San Francisco Chronicle reveals how the hidden hazards of SSRIs put adolescents’ lives in danger. For one 16 year old teenager, Paxil posed greater risks…
Pharma Efforts to Bar Placebo Responders from Trials – WSJ Fri, 25 Jun 2004 A clinical trial report in The Lancet debunks the value of Aricept, a popular drug prescribed for Alzheimer’s patients. The findings of a three-year placebo controlled trial show that: “Although the patients taking the drug did…
FDA Foot Dragging – Three Months After Expert Panel Urged “Black Box” Warnings for Antidepressants, No Action Thu, 23 Dec 2004 Why is the FDA failing to enforce the "Black Box" warnings on SSRI antidepressant drug labels? When questioned by the NJ Star Ledger, Robert Temple, director of the FDA’s…
Doctor calls President’s mental health Screening Initiative “Crazy” – UPI Thu, 23 Dec 2004 Dr. Jane Orient, the Executive Director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, has written a brilliant, clear-eyed blistering commentary–Are Your Children Crazy? America’s 52 million school children and 6 million staff are the first…
US Preventive Services Task Force: No evidence that screening for suicide reduces suicide Fri, 21 May 2004 The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) issued its findings and recommendation against screening for suicide. The USPSTF findings corroborate those of the Canadian PSTF. “USPSTF found no evidence that screening for suicide…
Cong Greenwood’s version Wed, 21 Jul 2004 Congressman James Greenwood called at 4:05 to inform AHRP of the following: He has resigned from the chairmanship of the House subcommittee on oversight and investigations today. He was offered the job with Biotechnology Industry Organization on Friday. He objected to being accused…
Pharma’s Pervasive Influence Corrupts Medicine both sides of Atlantic Tue, 4 Oct 2005 The focus of criticism in medicine has shifted from cost and barriers to access to treatments to an examination of the safety and benefit of current treatments. The pharmaceutical industry’s corrupting influence on physicians, academic researchers, the…
SAMHSA Backs Away From TeenScreen & TMAP Mon, 24 Oct 2005 On October 17, a meeting took place with Charles Currie in Washington DC – with some in attendance by conference call. Currie is the Administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the federal agency charged…
Prozac Suicide Risk – CNN Posts long concealed Eli Lilly Internal Documents Tue, 4 Jan 2005 An internal company document titled Activation and Sedation in Fluoxetine Clinical Trials dated 11/8/1988, provides insight into how marketing divisions of pharmaceutical companies rationalize lethal adverse drug effects. Of note: the terminology in 1988…
