Fwd: Warning!!! Coming off SSRI's Too Fast Can Cause Psychosis Or Death.

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Tue, 2 Mar 2004 19:21:15 EST

[drugawareness] WEDNESDAY: RADIO PROGRAM OUT OF SEATTLE OVER NET

 

 

 

Dr. Ann Blake Tracy, along with others in our group, will guests on the

following program Wednesday afternoon, March 3, from 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM Pacific

Time. A description of the show and how to listen online is listed below as

well:

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NOTE FROM DR. TRACY: You should know that MANY of our members and directors

around the country have been guests on various news programs, radio stations,

magazines and newspapers in the last few weeks since the FDA hearing. Some of

those programs include Mark and Cheryl Miller on Good Morning America, Amy

Coburn on CBS Early Morning, Sara Bostock on the Today Show and in the New York

Times, Pepper Draper in the New York Times, LA Times and San Francisco

Chronicle, Shannon Baker and Mark Taylor in TIME Magazine, etc., etc., etc. We

hope

you were able to view those. And March 9 the Montel Williams Show plans on

airing a piece on this issue with some of our group. Most programs happen too

quickly to notify the e-group.

 

Although I am grateful for that media coverage, I remain deeply concerned

that only the surface information is too often given to the public, leaving

patients in extreme danger stemming from abrupt withdrawal or abrupt switching

from

one SSRI to another. For just over a year I have grown increasing anxious and

extremely concerned about the backlash we would see as the truth came out

about these drugs. Clearly that backlash began this past summer with the ban

coming out of the UK, but has intensified greatly since the FDA hearing. I have

repeatedly warned that we would see many more deaths as a result of this

information coming out.

 

Why?

 

Because patients would be withdrawn too rapidly from these drugs leading to

many deaths as a result from the potential withdrawal-induced psychosis or

suicidal and homicidal ideations as well as fatal physical effects such as

seizures and heart attacks.

 

Yet, just since the FDA hearing, among the family and close friends of our

directors here at ICFDA, we have had two senseless deaths apparently caused by

abrupt withdrawal. These were patients who were being warned. One was an

elderly patient and the other a young man of 18.

 

Even with all of the very vocal warnings I have given I did not expect to see

such tragedy strike so close to home. If it is this bad among us who are

sounding this warning, how bad must it be in the general population? This is why

I

continue to urge you to sound this warning clearly as any of you do

interviews on the FDA hearing. Mark has made these warnings perfectly visible as

you go

onto our website at www.drugawareness.org

 

So once again I warn you to PLEASE help stop this flood of unnecessary deaths

we have already begun to witness. Share the site with others, PLEASE!

 

Ann Blake Tracy, PhD

Executive Director, International Coalition For Drug Awareness

Author: Prozac: Panacea or Pandora? - Our Serotonin Nightmare

& audio tape or CD on safe withdrawal: " Help! I Can't Get

Off My Antidepressant! "

 

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Website: www.drugawareness.org