L.A. Times and the FDA Warning on Antidepressants

FDA warning on antidepressants have depressed depression diagnoses.
1:00 PM, June 1, 2009

“After five years of steady growth, diagnoses of depression in patients of all ages dropped like a rock in 2004, the year after the Food and Drug Administration warned that the current generation of antidepressant medications increased the risk of suicide and suicidal thinking in children.”

Dr. Ann Blake Tracy writes: ” This is my response to the article in the LA Times yesterday:

Let me also add that I am convinced and warned the FDA of it in February of 2004 that any slight increase in suicide that may happen and apparently did happen in 2004 came as a direct result of physicians having no clue about safe withdrawal from antidepressants. It is critical that doctors learn how similar in action these drugs are to steroids. If they understood that they would begin to see why so many are going manic/psychotic on these drugs and along with that they would see the need to wean patients up EXTREMELY slowly when starting on an antidepressant and the need to wean patients down EXTREMELY slowly when coming off an antidepressant.

The FDA did warn along with the Black Box Warning that ANY abrupt change in dose of an antidepressant, whether going up or coming down or switching medications or increasing the dose, etc., can cause suicide, hostility or psychosis. But in 20 years of working to educate about this antidepressant-induced nightmare I have seen few physicians who pay much attention to these warnings because they are too busy listening to drug reps who are nothing more than flashy salesmen concerned mainly about $$$$ rather than patient safety!”

Dr. Tracy (see her comment at U.S. News and World Report) “BRAVO!!! BRAVO!! BRAVO!!! More spared what patients have long called antidepressant hell!!!

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