According to the CDC suicides in the US were 13 people out of 100,000 as of 2014. This suicide rate has increased since 1999. It was 10.5 suicides per 100,000 then. There is also been a dramatic increase in psychotropic drugs. This CDC report has tally the suicide rate from 10 years to 75 years plus.
The suicide rate has declined among African American men, but has increase 60% with white women and 28% among white men. The number of suicides increased dramatically among Native Americans, which went up 89%. Suicide is now the 10th leading cause of death in the United States. Some mental health professionals feel that the progress in the 80’s and early 90’s to reduce the suicide rate has been undone by concern that antidepressants increase suicide. These so called professionals are concerned that the black box warning causes people not to take the antidepressants. It is clear that even the lenient FDA is concerned that antidepressant do cause suicides.
The so called mental health professional also known as psychiatrist’s blame easy lethal means such as guns as the reason for the increase in suicides. The reality is that psychotropic drugs have increased along with the increase and suicides showing a direct connection between psychotropic drugs and suicide. What the study doesn’t say is that the opiates are prescribed by these health professionals who don’t look at the consequences of their prescriptions.
The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention feels they are helping to lower suicide rates among people 75 and older. They indicate their efforts to include educating primary care doctors about identifying people at risk of suicide and working to enhance their connections in society and participation in activities. Their participation in society is their concern. What they fail to say or even look at is that most of the elderly are prescribed pharmaceutical drugs which increasing have side effects of suicide. If you look at the side effects of almost every pharma drug you will see a potential risk in suicide. Hello FDA are you looking do you care? No they don’t since the FDA is run by Pharma. No end in sight for the suicide that is clear.
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Saturday, May 14, 2016
Thursday, July 2, 2015
Anti-depressant used during menopause 'raises risk of broken bones'
This is a recent article from the Daily Mail
Women who take common anti-depressants to counter the impact of menopause may have a 76 per cent higher risk of broken bones, scientists warn.
The risk appears to last for several years after women take the drugs, leading to calls for doctors to reduce the period for which they are prescribed.
For many women, the onset of the menopause triggers mood changes and depression, and each year thousands are prescribed a type of anti-depressant called SSRIs - selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, the best known of which is Prozac.
The drugs are also sometimes prescribed to help women cope with other effects of the menopause, such as irritable bowel syndrome, hot flushes and night sweats.
But new research suggests a side effect of the drugs may be a weakening of the bones.
SSRIs are among the most commonly prescribed drugs in Britain. Some 30 million prescriptions for them were given out in England last year, at a cost of £74 million (NZ$170 million).
There are no figures for how many are given to menopausal women, but it is thought that some doctors prefer to prescribe anti-depressants rather than hormone replacement therapy, fearing HRT can increase the risk of heart problems.
But the balance is beginning to swing back in favour of HRT, with new NHS guidelines expected to tell doctors to stop excluding certain women from access to the drugs.
Researchers from Northeastern University in Boston analysed data from 370,000 American menopausal women over 12 years. Of these, 137,000 took SSRIs, including fluoxetine, which is known as Prozac, as well as hydrobromide, oxalate, fluvoxamine, paroxetine and sertraline.
The researchers compared this group with 236,000 women who took indigestion medications over the same period.
Among those who took the SSRIs, the rate of fractures was 76 per cent higher one year after starting treatment, 73 per cent higher after two years and 67 per cent higher after five years.
The researchers stressed that their study was purely based on statistics, so they could draw no definitive conclusions about cause and effect. But previous research has suggested that anti-depressants may alter the way bones grow, making them thinner and weaker.
The authors, led by injury prevention expert Professor Matthew Miller, wrote in Injury Prevention, part of the British Medical Journal group: "SSRIs appear to increase fracture risk among middle-aged women without psychiatric disorders, an effect sustained over time, suggesting that shorter duration of treatment may decrease this.
"Future efforts should examine whether this association pertains at lower doses."
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence is expected to publish guidelines later this year telling NHS doctors to stop denying HRT to menopausal women who have high blood pressure.
Specialists have long complained that many are being unfairly denied HRT and left to deal with the effects of the menopause unaided.
Women who take common anti-depressants to counter the impact of menopause may have a 76 per cent higher risk of broken bones, scientists warn.
The risk appears to last for several years after women take the drugs, leading to calls for doctors to reduce the period for which they are prescribed.
For many women, the onset of the menopause triggers mood changes and depression, and each year thousands are prescribed a type of anti-depressant called SSRIs - selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, the best known of which is Prozac.
The drugs are also sometimes prescribed to help women cope with other effects of the menopause, such as irritable bowel syndrome, hot flushes and night sweats.
But new research suggests a side effect of the drugs may be a weakening of the bones.
SSRIs are among the most commonly prescribed drugs in Britain. Some 30 million prescriptions for them were given out in England last year, at a cost of £74 million (NZ$170 million).
There are no figures for how many are given to menopausal women, but it is thought that some doctors prefer to prescribe anti-depressants rather than hormone replacement therapy, fearing HRT can increase the risk of heart problems.
But the balance is beginning to swing back in favour of HRT, with new NHS guidelines expected to tell doctors to stop excluding certain women from access to the drugs.
Researchers from Northeastern University in Boston analysed data from 370,000 American menopausal women over 12 years. Of these, 137,000 took SSRIs, including fluoxetine, which is known as Prozac, as well as hydrobromide, oxalate, fluvoxamine, paroxetine and sertraline.
The researchers compared this group with 236,000 women who took indigestion medications over the same period.
Among those who took the SSRIs, the rate of fractures was 76 per cent higher one year after starting treatment, 73 per cent higher after two years and 67 per cent higher after five years.
The researchers stressed that their study was purely based on statistics, so they could draw no definitive conclusions about cause and effect. But previous research has suggested that anti-depressants may alter the way bones grow, making them thinner and weaker.
The authors, led by injury prevention expert Professor Matthew Miller, wrote in Injury Prevention, part of the British Medical Journal group: "SSRIs appear to increase fracture risk among middle-aged women without psychiatric disorders, an effect sustained over time, suggesting that shorter duration of treatment may decrease this.
"Future efforts should examine whether this association pertains at lower doses."
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence is expected to publish guidelines later this year telling NHS doctors to stop denying HRT to menopausal women who have high blood pressure.
Specialists have long complained that many are being unfairly denied HRT and left to deal with the effects of the menopause unaided.
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Carson City IHOP Shooter Kills Four and Wounds Eight. He had Mental Issues and Most likely was taking Antidepressants
The IHOP gunman Eduardo Sencion was wielding an AK-47 opened fire at an IHOP restaurant on Tuesday Sept 6, 2011 in an outburst of violence that killed four people, wounded eight others and put Nevada's capital city on high alert.
He was on disability income of approximately $923/month according to the Las Vegas Sun. The Sun reported information on a bankruptcy filing; Sencion listed more than $42,000 in outstanding debts for a car, several credit cards and some medical expenses. At the time, Sencion reported having $200 spread over three bank accounts the $923 in disability income, mostly from Social Security.
In order to get disability payments from the government you have to have a physical or mental disability. He didn’t demonstrate a physical disability, but in order to get mental disability approval you have to see a psychiatrist. Psychiatry has only one solution and that is antidepressants. You see a psychiatrist and fifteen minutes later you will be prescribed a psychotropic drug. It is still unclear exactly what disability Sencion had, but based on the initial evidence, a psychiatrist once again failed to assist Sencion and the four innocent people and the eight wounded.
The antidepressants most likely did their job as the side effects are similar for all antidepressants (mania, aggressive behavior, suicide, hysteria, paranoid reaction, and hostility) and unfortunately many more.
Who will be held responsible for all the innocent loss of life here? The media and the government will not target psychiatry, or the pharmaceutical companies who produce these killer drugs. Senator Reid D-NV was quick to offer condolences, but like many of these similar incidents nobody pays the price for killing. The media doesn’t even investigate it any further than 24 hours. If it bleeds it leads until it bleeds no more.
Monday, June 20, 2011
Psychiatry and BigPharma The Two Headed Failed Monster
Unfortunately, too many people use psychiatry, yet psychiatry has destroyed virtually everything it claims to attempt to cure. Psychiatry is responsible for the revolving door of non-rehabilitated prisoners worldwide, also just listen to BigPharma’s ads “we don’t know what causes depression, but we think this antidepressant can help” That should tell you everything about psychiatry and BigPharma that you need to know. Psychiatry today specializes in prescribing psychotropic drugs, and their past history involves the use of lobotomies, electro-shock treatment and strait jackets. Psychiatry has quite a failed and grotesque history. Psychiatrists claim over 1 billion of the humans are mentally ill. If you smoke too much your ill, feel down your ill, too thin your ill. Their plan is to drug everyone, without any evidence to back up any of their claims. They even admit they don’t know the causes of their claimed illness, and they don’t know the solutions. It’s all billing and money with no results. Go to http://www.cchr.org/museum.html%23/museum/intro#/museum/intro for more details on psychiatry fraud.
Side Effects of Antidepressants
Antidepressants can cause several surprising side effects, such as restlessness, anxiety, sexual dysfunction, feeling of grief, anxiety, guilt, despair, sense of numbness or hollowness, loss of interest and pleasure in activities, dullness, decreased energy, difficulty concentrating, disrupted sleep, overeating, weight gain, loss of appetite and weight loss.
Outside of the short-term side effects, antidepressants can alter the biochemistry of the brain, and can be very difficult to discontinue. Many patients have attempted to get off their antidepressants but experienced neurological symptoms like tics, tingling, and “zapping” sensations in their brains every time they tried tapering off the drugs.
Long term Effects of Antidepressants
Studies have shown long term effects of SSRI’s are weight gain, and sexual dysfunction, lethargy and fatigue. Reports also show that these antidepressants may induce induced Tardive Dyskinesia/Dystonia (severe body movement disorder, mostly permanent), Parkinsonism (a sign of future Parkinson's disease) and Akathisia (a neurological driven severe mania/agitation that can lead to suicide attempts, and self-harm.
Side Effects of Antidepressants
Antidepressants can cause several surprising side effects, such as restlessness, anxiety, sexual dysfunction, feeling of grief, anxiety, guilt, despair, sense of numbness or hollowness, loss of interest and pleasure in activities, dullness, decreased energy, difficulty concentrating, disrupted sleep, overeating, weight gain, loss of appetite and weight loss.
Outside of the short-term side effects, antidepressants can alter the biochemistry of the brain, and can be very difficult to discontinue. Many patients have attempted to get off their antidepressants but experienced neurological symptoms like tics, tingling, and “zapping” sensations in their brains every time they tried tapering off the drugs.
Long term Effects of Antidepressants
Studies have shown long term effects of SSRI’s are weight gain, and sexual dysfunction, lethargy and fatigue. Reports also show that these antidepressants may induce induced Tardive Dyskinesia/Dystonia (severe body movement disorder, mostly permanent), Parkinsonism (a sign of future Parkinson's disease) and Akathisia (a neurological driven severe mania/agitation that can lead to suicide attempts, and self-harm.
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