Lexapro for Adolescents

Posted by David B. and Dianne Hansen | March 23, 2009 .

“THIS IS ABSOLUTELY UNBELIEVABLE!!!! The FDA approved Lexapro Friday for use in adolescents suffering from depression!

In light of the U.S. Justice Department’s filing of Fraud against Forest Labs for hiding the fact that they knew their drugs Celexa and Lexapro increased suicide in children and adolescents while they pushed the drugs to this age group, the FDA is either:

1. Out of their minds
2. On the take from Forest Labs, Lexapro’s manufacturer, in an attempt to counter the charges brought just two weeks ago by the US Justice Department.

What else could it possibly be?! This is insanity at its finest and clear evidence of who the FDA is protecting and it is NOT us, the public!

Celexa and Lexapro are two of the strongest Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors to ever hit the market and therefore two of the most deadly. I never believed they could ever get Celexa approved to begin with due to the massive amounts of adverse reactions in the early studies on the drug, and Lexapro is its twin sister from Hell. They are almost identical drugs with a different name. If anyone has any sane answer as to why on earth the FDA would make this move, I want to hear it.” (written by Dr. Ann Blake-Tracy)

The newsletter “Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibior [SSRI] Drugs: More Risks Than Benefits?” has been published by Dr. Ann Blake Tracy for many years and now there is a new study by the same title just out in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons: Volume 14: number 1: Spring 2009. See the article by Joel M. Kauffman, Ph.D., [Professor of chemistry emeritus at the University of the Sciences, Philadelphia, Pa.]

In regard to the International Coalition for Drug Awareness, the study reads: “The International Coalition for Drug Awareness in cooperation with the Prozac Survivors Support Group has produced a website on which about 1,600 [now about 3,000] violent incidents associated with SSRI use are described… Since no clinical trial involving multiple homicides is ever likely to be run, no firmer evidence is likely to be found. Healy noted that much of the evidence for suicide and murder came from the efforts of journalists and lawyers”.

Read horror stories about SSRI drugs.

Dr. Ann Blake-Tracy, Executive Director
International Coalition for Drug Awareness

You may buy Dr. Tracy’s important book from Amazon: Prozac: Panacea or Pandora? the Rest of the Story on the New Class of Ssri Antidepressants Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Lovan, Luvox & More.

Read what Dr. Grohol of Psych Central has to say about this issue: “Despite Controversy, Lexapro Approved for Kids’ Depression”