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Robin Williams – Another Comedy of Errors

December 23, 2014 By Ron

When he committed suicide on August 11, 2014 comedy icon Robin Williams joined a long list of artists who suffered tragically at the hands of psychiatrists.

On the surface, Williams’ death seemed straightforward. According to USA Today’s website, the Marin County coroner’s report ruled his death as a “suicide by hanging, with no evidence of alcohol or illegal drugs in his system and only therapeutic concentrations of prescribed medications.”

True, all the drugs in his body were legal. But those “therapeutic” medications included mirtazapine, an antidepressant used for “major depressive disorder.”

Antidepressants can cause violence and suicide

Antidepressants can cause worsening depression, anxiety, panic attacks, hostility, aggression, psychosis, violence & suicidality. Numerous studies show them to be no more effective than placebo.

Also known as Remeron, it carries 10 international drug regulatory warnings on causing suicidal ideation.

In total, there are 32 possible side effects, says Drugs.com, including mood or mental changes, abnormal thinking, feelings of not caring, mood or mental changes, anger, mood swings and unusual excitement.

There’s more. The antipsychotic Seroquel was also found at the scene. While there were no traces of it in his body, eight pills were missing from the bottle.

This drug, says Drugs.com has 10 possible adverse reactions: psychosis, hallucinations, paranoid reactions, delusions, manic reaction, depersonalization, catatonic reaction, emotional lability, suicide attempt, and euphoria.

Despite all this, several news websites cast a suspicious eye toward Lewy body dementia as it has symptoms similar to Parkinson’s. As the “second most common type of progressive dementia after Alzheimer’s disease, it causes a progressive decline in mental abilities”, says the Mayo Clinic.

Which may be why “unnamed family sources” in the Williams’ family claimed that Lewy body dementia was a critical “triggering” factor in his suicide.

However, the Mayo Clinic website does not list suicidal thoughts or behavior among the possible symptoms of this condition.

That agrees with Gayatri Devi, an attending neurologist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York who has treated such patients. He noted that “suicide does not usually occur in Lewy body dementia patients.”

And so, the loose strings remain ignored by the media and the medical community.

Meanwhile, we lose a talent who was equally talented in all genres. His peers and the public agreed: with 106 acting credits, he garnered two Emmys, five Grammys, six Golden Globes and two Screen Actor Guild Awards.

Psychiatric drug side effects

No one should attempt to get off of psychiatric drugs without a doctor’s supervision.

 

Photo credits:
Robin Williams by Eva Rinaldi, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Drugging our Children: Side Effects

April 26, 2014 By Ron


20 million children are taking psychiatric drugs, and parents, legislators and the general public are not being given the documented risks from international drug regulatory agencies and medical journals. CCHR has created a one of a kind psychiatric drug database containing all international warnings and studies on psychiatric drugs in an easy to search online database. People can search for drugs like Ritalin, Adderall, Prozac, Zoloft, Seroquel (any brand name drug) or by drug class such as antidepressant, antipsychotic or stimulant. They can also search all adverse reactions to psychiatric drugs that have been reported to the U.S. FDA between 2004- 208.

Click here to view psychiatric drug database.

Filed Under: Children, Drugs

ADHD is not a disease

November 19, 2013 By Ron

Labeling a child as mentally ill is stigmatization, not diagnosis. Giving a child a psychiatric drug is poisoning, not treatment.

CCHR Co-founder, Dr. Thomas Szasz, Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus

Filed Under: ADHD, Drugs

National Day of Action to Stop Psychiatric Profiling

January 20, 2013 By Ron

Martin Luther King Jr. Day
January 21st, 2013

 

CCHR Oregon supports the

National Day of Action to Stop Psychiatric Profiling

 

The reaction to recent events involving gun violence has been an alarming rush to enact laws promoting “Psychiatric Profiling”. These laws would restrict the rights of people labeled as “mentally ill”, and force them to endure harmful, counterproductive, psychiatric interventions.

Investigate the Cause:

There has yet to be a federal investigation into the link between psychiatric drugs and violence, despite 22 international drug regulatory agency warnings on psychiatric drugs causing violent side effects including

  • Aggression
  • Mania
  • Violence
  • Psychosis
  • Suicidal and homicidal ideation
  • 14 recent school shootings committed by those under the influence of, or withdrawal from, psychiatric drugs

Sign the Petition:

Click here to sign the petition:  Call for Federal Investigation of Psychiatric Drugs, School Shootings & Senseless Violence.

Filed Under: Drugs, Events, News, Violence

Oregon Attorney General and 36 others reach $181 million Risperdal settlement

August 30, 2012 By Ron

Janssen Pharmaceuticals RisperdalJanssen Pharmaceuticals has agreed to pay $181 million to settle claims brought against it by Oregon Attorney General Ellen F. Rosenblum and 36 other Attorneys General alleging that the drug company used unfair and deceptive practices in marketing Risperdal and three related anti-psychotic drugs.

Oregon will receive more than $4.2 million in the case. Janssen is a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson.

“This is our most important case settlement yet involving “Big Pharma,” Rosenblum said. “Some of Oregon’s most vulnerable citizens will be the beneficiaries. I am proud of the major contribution of the Oregon Department of Justice to this result — particularly the efforts of Assistant Attorney General David Hart.”

Hart, assistant attorney-in-charge of the Oregon Department of Justice financial fraud/consumer protection section, handled the case for the state.

The complaint, filed today in Multnomah County Circuit Court follows a four-year investigation. It alleges that Janssen marketed Risperdal, Risperdal Consta, Risperdal M-Tab and Invega for unapproved or off-label uses.

Federal Law prohibits pharmaceutical manufacturers from promoting their products for off-label uses. The complaint alleges that Janssen promoted Risperdal for off-label uses to both geriatric and pediatric populations, targeting patients with Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, depression, and anxiety, when these uses were not FDA-approved and for which Janssen had not established that Risperdal was safe and effective.

It also alleges that Janssen paid doctors to learn about Risperdal’s unapproved uses and gave lucrative consulting contracts to those who promoted and prescribed the drug.

In addition, the complaint alleges that when marketing Risperdal, Janssen misrepresented the risk of diabetes and weight gain associated with the drug and that Jansen marketed Risperdal in nursing homes despite the fact that there are other serious risks associated with using atypical antipsychotic drugs with this population.

As part of the settlement, Janssen agreed to change not only how it promotes and markets its atypical antipsychotics but also agreed to refrain from any false, misleading or deceptive promotion of the drugs. The company also agreed to disclose the specific health risks of the drugs on its product labels and to present balanced information about the drugs’ effectiveness and risks in its promotional materials.

The Attorneys General of the following states and the District of Columbia participated in the settlement: Arizona, Alabama, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming.

Source:

Oregon Department of Justice: http://www.doj.state.or.us/releases/Pages/2012/rel083012.aspx

Filed Under: Drugs, News

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