Health Sciences Institute – Big Pharma’s deadly deceptions know no bounds
Dear Reader,
It’s something we don’t like to talk about… something so heartbreaking that we’d rather believe it doesn’t happen.
But the truth of the matter is that kids are considering, attempting, and even succeeding in taking their own lives.
The number of suicides in kids and adolescents is on the rise. Of course, a lot of the blame is put on school or cyber-bullying.
And while that may be part of the reason, many experts believe that it doesn’t hold a candle to something that has been a known suicide trigger in kids for decades: prescription antidepressants.
As a Health Sciences Institute eAlert reader, you know that Rx drugs to treat anxiety and depression are already a big problem for adults. And slowly but surely, kids have been prescribed more and more risky meds – and at much younger ages.
The risk of giving antidepressants to children is so well established that even the pharma-friendly FDA required drugmakers to put a black-box warning on that class of meds about suicidal “thoughts and actions” back over a decade ago.
Now, a couple of academic nitwits are saying that those warnings are discouraging doctors from prescribing these drugs.
Well, let me stop right here and say that’s about the biggest piece of phony-baloney fakery I’ve ever read.
And when I further investigated the case they were trying to make for ditching those warnings, it became clear that this so-called expert opinion piece, which was published by a previously reliable online source called STAT, isn’t worth the pixels it’s printed on.
In fact, these drug-pushing “experts” have written the exact opposite of what CDC statistics have shown.
After those warnings were added back in 2004, the use of such drugs in kids 10 to 17 did decline, that’s true.
But so did their suicide rate.
And several years later, when prescriptions for antidepressants bounced back — apparently because many doctors stopped taking those warnings seriously — the suicide rate for that age group started climbing again.
That’s why one authority in the field has called the STAT article a “false story” that relies on the kind of “visual misdirection that magicians use.”
Antidepressants can trigger suicidal thoughts in kids – that fact is practically undisputable.
And it’s worse than Big Pharma and the FDA will ever admit.
One of the biggest reviews ever done on the risk, involving 18,000 people and 70 trials, found that these drugs can double the risk of suicide and violent behavior in those under 18.
Horrifyingly, the real number of kids and teens who try to harm themselves while on these meds is likely even higher.
Because some suicides occurred after the trial stopped, for example, the researchers didn’t count them. In other instances, they listed attempted suicides simply as a “worsening of depression”… or ignored them entirely.
Of course, these are things that a doc caring for a child would have no way of knowing. It took a dedicated group of researchers working day and night to unravel this raw data and bring the truth to light.
There’s no doubt that if Big Pharma will do this kind of trickery where innocent children are concerned, the sky is the limit for how it will attempt to pull the wool over our eyes.
So, if you absolutely have to take a medication, be sure to read everything that comes along with it.
One thing we do have at our disposal are the warnings that come along with every single prescription drug. And in the case of those that carry black-box warnings, you’re also supposed to receive a patient medication guide that spells everything out in plain language.
You might not know what they’re hiding from you, but at least you’ll know a lot more than if you toss all of that vital information in the trash!
To Not Being Deceived,
Melissa Young
Health Sciences Institute
