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“Singulair®” Placed Under Ingvestigation for Possible Link to Suicide


Yet another drug is being placed under investigation by the U.S. Federal Drug Administration. This time it is the pharmaceutical drug Singulair manufactured by Merck & Co. Inc.
The FDA has received reports that the drug is responsible for causing behavior/mood changes, suicidality (suicide thinking and behavior) and suicide. The agency has issued a warning to [...]

Autism, Acupuncture, and Traditional Chinese Medicine


Autism is characterized by profound disturbance in the emergence of social relations, apparent as early as the first months of life and almost always by age three years (1). Disturbances in brain maturation appear to be a cause of this syndrome, which may be exacerbated by deficiencies in certain nutrients (e.g., vitamin B6, magnesium, [...]

Quit Smoking Drug May be Source of Suicidal Thoughts, Behavioral Changes


The smoking cessation drug Chantix from Pfizer Inc. has been on the market for only 18 months and it is already the subject of a U.S. Food and Drug Administration “Safety Alert.” The FDA advisory informed doctors, healthcare professionals and patients about reports of suicidal thoughts, aggressive actions and erratic behavior in persons using the [...]

Columbia University “Expert” Panel too Biased to Impartially Review Suicidal Effects of Antidepressant Drugs


Children’s Lives Will Continue To Be At Risk Due To Conflicts Of Interest

Amid increasing controversy surrounding the suicidal effects of numerous Selective Serotonin Reputake Inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressants being prescribed to children and adolescents, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) referred clinical trial studies on SSRIs to Columbia University, for a “distinguished panel” of “experts” [...]

Adolescent Suicide Rate, Not Due to Black Box Warnings


Prompted by psychiatrists with their own vested interests in pharmaceutical sales, the media has spun the blame for the rise in the suicide rate for children on the “black box” warning labels placed on antidepressants. This comes from a study that was conducted by the Center for Disease Control (CDC)—one of the components of the [...]

Big Pharma: Mental Screening Programs Sell More Drugs


Pharmaceutical companies are busy making huge donations to dozens of official-sounding mental health organizations that promote pseudo-scientific “mental health programs” to push even more customers onto their drugs.
Signs of Suicide, a program developed by the non-profit group Screening for Mental Health, Inc., is just one of many of these kinds of organizations, and possibly the [...]