Although I have been attacked by certain trolls from a particular site that is SUPPOSED to help survivors of child abuse (which is recieving funding from the freemasons), and falsely and unjustly accused of being mean to other child abuse survivors, I think it can easily be seen that I am on a mission to try to end institutional abuses, wether they be against old, young or infirm, I just think all of this bullying has to stop.
I don't really know how I survived all the institutional abuse. It's a bit of a mystery to me, and certainly a miracle. How did so many of the Holocaust survivors survive? That's a mystery as well. All I know is that I kept praying to Jesus to help me, and He did.
In fact, that is my first tip to surviving institutional abuse. I would be very wary of any group which is either set up in a particular religion, or that bans God altogether. The Freemasons have a form of religion, but it is like a dry and dusty version of the truth. The last thing abuse survivors need is to
1) get involved in a cult
2) be spied upon by people PRETENDING to help, but secretly stabbing you in the back.
It is a horribe shock when you first discover what Common Purpose is. I wept buckets when I realised, and I just felt as though I had died inside. I felt so shocked - I didn't want to believe it at first. I spent a lot of time praying, and reading the Bible. Somehow, reading the Old Testament, the stories of Abraham, Jeramiah, David, Moses, Daniel ect, the age old struggle of good against evil made me feel comforted.
I realised that I had been living in a dream world - the History of England that I had been fed as a schoolchild was a sanitised version of the true state of affairs. It is a dreadful shock when you first realise the extent to which you have been lied to by your "superiors".
The abuse I suffered gradually started to fall into place in the wider picture. I started to realise that the way I had been abused was not the malicious targetting that I had thought at all - it was more in the mature of an attempt to stifle me into silence. The more I spoke with other people who had suffered institutional abuse the more I realised that. It is still evil - but not as evil as I had supposed. It began to dawn on me that the freemasons who I had feared to be a shadowy gang of soulless devils were, in fact, a large body of people who had lost their way somewhere between infancy and adulthood.
I have never actually been in a gang, but I do understand the nature of gang mentality. I understand how there are ringleaders who manage to control the other members using a variety of psychological tactics, fear being the main one. A gang cannot function without a ringleader at least one, but sometimes two or three. Another important thing to understand about gangs is that most people in a gang are only there out of fear. They fear being on the outside of the gang - that is the drive which compels them to comply with the gang mentality.
It gradually dawned on me that the Freemasons are, in fact, a gigantic gang. I was astonished when I first realised this, because whilst it is so obvious when you realise the truth - nevertheless, it is an amazing thing to realise that so very few people actually are responsible for so much chaos. It puts in mind a newspaper report I read of a young boy who was responsible for most of the crime on his housing estate. The police were, according to the newspaper reporter, unable to stop him wrecking the peace of the whole estate, because of his age.
That discovery re-assured me, in the sense that, although the damage and disaster is great, because it is only a very few people at the top of the pyramid who are actually responsible, who are the driving force for all the evil, which means that the great majority of freemasons would, in fact, be perfectly decent people, if only they could see clearly. If they could only see what they are a party to, they would, in fact, recoil in horror and reject it. Most freemasons are not wanting to participate in evil, and if they only could see clearly what it is they are linked with, they would turn away from it in disgust.
As Danny Kaye says, in bthe film Hans Christian Anderson, "Most people are nice"
Most people are indeed nice - but they are also frightened. Most people do live in fear. The trouble with living in fear is that it stops you actually living. You cannot live a happy joyful life if you are terrified all the time.
Institutional abuse survivors, survivors of malicious vindictive persecution, know all about the relentless attacking, and how it wears a person down. It is only when you can face up to it by saying, "Sod this - this is like hell on earth - if they get me they get me, but they are going to have to do it in front of an audience!" that you can stop the relentless bullying.
I told the Teacher about the bullies. I know that God hears my prayers, and the prayers of anyone else who calls out to Him in faith and trust. God hates bullying - I know He does.
Anyway, I hope that reading this rambling post might help someone else, as that is what I posted it for.
Monday, 29 June 2009
Friday, 26 June 2009
COWARDS FROM SAFELINE - COME AND ATTACK ME THEN!
Well, it's one thing for members of SAFELINE (the organisation that describes itself as a haven for child abuse survivors but in reality tries to control them with CIA mind control) to come here and attack me anonymously, but it takes a person with a bit more bottle to actually identify themselves whilst attacking a VICTIM of child abuse and malicious vindictive persecution.
BRING IT ON!
BRING IT ON!
Wednesday, 17 June 2009
Allan Levy
Allan Levy
Family barrister and champion of children's rights
Monday, 4 October 2004
The leading family barristers are not generally known to the public. Allan Levy through his frequent broadcasts may have been the exception.
Allan Edward Levy, barrister: born Bury, Lancashire 17 August 1942; called to the Bar, Middle Temple 1969; QC 1989; Assistant Recorder 1990-93, Recorder 1993-2001; Chairman, Staffordshire Pindown Child Care Inquiry 1990; Chairman, Intercountry Adoption Lawyers' Association 1991-95; died London 26 September 2004.
The leading family barristers are not generally known to the public. Allan Levy through his frequent broadcasts may have been the exception.
He was regularly asked to comment on current events and policy relating to family law on both television and radio. He had a real flair for this. He was able to be authoritative and balanced, and yet be unpompous and unstuffy. He could explain complex ideas simply and in a way which made sense to the listener.
His media persona was based on an outstanding professional career. The law was his life, and at the centre of that he was a valiant and doughty proponent of children's rights. He was a leading expert on child law at the English Bar. His contribution to the development of the law, particularly in area of the rights of and the protection of children, was remarkable.
Levy was born in 1942 in Bury, now in Greater Manchester, and was educated at Bury Grammar School and then Hull University, where he is remembered as a quiet student. He read for the Bar and was called at the Inner Temple in 1969. He developed a growing interest in family law, children's rights and in medical ethics.
In 1982 he published Wardship Proceedings and then, in 1985, another textbook, the 10th edition of Adoption of Children (with J.F. Josling). It was as a result of this that he came to the notice of the Official Solicitor's office. He began to be instructed in a range of high-profile cases, some of which, because of the public importance of their subject matter and the difficult ethical or legal issues involved, gained significant media attention.
One of the first of these was a case in 1987 where an Oxford student attempted unsuccessfully to prevent a woman with whom he had had a brief relationship from having an abortion.
In 1992 he appeared in the first of a number of cases which have considered the question of an adult's right to refuse life-saving treatment. He acted for the father of a Jehovah's Witness. She had been admitted to hospital following a road traffic accident and had refused blood transfusions. Her condition deteriorated and she became unconscious. Her father and the man with whom she lived applied successfully to the court for a declaration that it would be lawful for the hospital to administer blood to her in the emergency situation which had arisen.
His reputation for dealing with difficult and sensitive issues, particularly in relation to children, grew. Sadly, from time to time, concerns arise over the way in which children within the care system, who are often voiceless and without defenders, are treated. One such occasion arose in 1990 when Allan Levy was asked to be Chairman of the Staffordshire Pindown Inquiry.
He was told there was "a little local difficulty" in Staffordshire which would take about three to four weeks to look at. The reality turned out to involve 75 days of evidence from 153 witnesses and the examination of about 150,000 pages of evidence, eventually leading to a 300-page report.
Pindown got its name because the main practitioner of the regime, when faced with a supposedly difficult child in his charge, would point his finger and say he would "pin down" the problem. Children were put into rooms called "pindown rooms" sometimes for periods of weeks or months without adequate clothing, recreation, communication and furnishings. The inquiry report, which was published in 1991, was both authoritative and influential; it trenchantly condemned the practice of pindown and made important recommendations. Some of the recommendations went on to be implemented, but some awaited implementation for over 10 years afterwards, to Levy's deep frustration.
After the Pindown report he continued to be at the forefront of developments in the law relating to children. A major reform of children's law, the Children Act 1989, came into force in 1991 and he was involved in leading decisions on its interpretation. The medical profession also turned to him for authoritative and balanced advice. He chaired the British Medical Association Steering Committee which led to publication in December 2000 of comprehensive practical guidance on the ethical and legal issues which arise in health care of patients under 18, Consent, Rights and Choices in Health Care for Children and Young People.
His standing within the legal profession was recognised when he took silk in 1989, became a Bencher of the Inner Temple in 1993 and sat as an Assistant Recorder from 1990 to1993 and then as a Recorder from 1993 to 2001.
Developments in human-rights law in recent years were seen by Levy as an opportunity for advancing the rights of children. In 1998 he took a case to the European Court of Human Rights which raised an important issue in relation to the use of corporal punishment. A stepfather beat a nine-year-old boy with a garden cane causing the boy to suffer severe bruising. The stepfather was charged with the criminal offence of assault occasioning actual bodily harm. He raised the defence of necessary and reasonable chastisement, and was found not guilty.
On behalf of the child, Levy argued that there had been a breach of the child's right not to be subjected to "inhuman or degrading treatment" under Article 3 of the Convention for Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. The court found that there had been a breach and that in permitting the defence of reasonable chastisement the United Kingdom was failing to protect children from such ill-treatment.
In another case in 1999, he successfully persuaded the House of Lords that it should be possible for a child who had been brought up in local authority care, and who alleged that the negligence of the local authority had caused him psychiatric injury, to bring an action for negligence against that authority.
Even though he was suffering from cancer of the oesophagus, in May and again in July this year he was involved in preparing submissions to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights on a matter close to his heart. His concern was the proposal to leave intact the defence of lawful chastisement in offences of common assault. He made his view clear: to do so would not meet the UK's obligations under international human-rights instruments. In the same vein, in July he published an article expressing clearly and passionately his objections to corporal punishment.
Despite his skill in explaining family issues to a public audience through the media, and his friendliness and humour with those he knew, Allan Levy was an unassuming and private man. He had a love of books. His home was full of them and he once said he could not move because he could not move all the books. He had a marvellous collection of Lowry paintings. He was an unfailing supporter of Manchester City Football Club. He loved travel. He would travel to watch the English cricket team aboard, as well as to wilder and more remote shores, as far flung as Antarctica.
Sometimes he would combine his love of travel with lecturing abroad. He was, for example, a speaker at the Seventh International Congress on Child Abuse in Rio de Janeiro in 1988. He had gone to speak about child abuse in the light of the Cleveland Inquiry, but came back deeply struck by the plight of the "street children". This was typical of his compassion and the concern for the rights of children which characterised his life.
Pamela Scriven
Family barrister and champion of children's rights
Monday, 4 October 2004
The leading family barristers are not generally known to the public. Allan Levy through his frequent broadcasts may have been the exception.
Allan Edward Levy, barrister: born Bury, Lancashire 17 August 1942; called to the Bar, Middle Temple 1969; QC 1989; Assistant Recorder 1990-93, Recorder 1993-2001; Chairman, Staffordshire Pindown Child Care Inquiry 1990; Chairman, Intercountry Adoption Lawyers' Association 1991-95; died London 26 September 2004.
The leading family barristers are not generally known to the public. Allan Levy through his frequent broadcasts may have been the exception.
He was regularly asked to comment on current events and policy relating to family law on both television and radio. He had a real flair for this. He was able to be authoritative and balanced, and yet be unpompous and unstuffy. He could explain complex ideas simply and in a way which made sense to the listener.
His media persona was based on an outstanding professional career. The law was his life, and at the centre of that he was a valiant and doughty proponent of children's rights. He was a leading expert on child law at the English Bar. His contribution to the development of the law, particularly in area of the rights of and the protection of children, was remarkable.
Levy was born in 1942 in Bury, now in Greater Manchester, and was educated at Bury Grammar School and then Hull University, where he is remembered as a quiet student. He read for the Bar and was called at the Inner Temple in 1969. He developed a growing interest in family law, children's rights and in medical ethics.
In 1982 he published Wardship Proceedings and then, in 1985, another textbook, the 10th edition of Adoption of Children (with J.F. Josling). It was as a result of this that he came to the notice of the Official Solicitor's office. He began to be instructed in a range of high-profile cases, some of which, because of the public importance of their subject matter and the difficult ethical or legal issues involved, gained significant media attention.
One of the first of these was a case in 1987 where an Oxford student attempted unsuccessfully to prevent a woman with whom he had had a brief relationship from having an abortion.
In 1992 he appeared in the first of a number of cases which have considered the question of an adult's right to refuse life-saving treatment. He acted for the father of a Jehovah's Witness. She had been admitted to hospital following a road traffic accident and had refused blood transfusions. Her condition deteriorated and she became unconscious. Her father and the man with whom she lived applied successfully to the court for a declaration that it would be lawful for the hospital to administer blood to her in the emergency situation which had arisen.
His reputation for dealing with difficult and sensitive issues, particularly in relation to children, grew. Sadly, from time to time, concerns arise over the way in which children within the care system, who are often voiceless and without defenders, are treated. One such occasion arose in 1990 when Allan Levy was asked to be Chairman of the Staffordshire Pindown Inquiry.
He was told there was "a little local difficulty" in Staffordshire which would take about three to four weeks to look at. The reality turned out to involve 75 days of evidence from 153 witnesses and the examination of about 150,000 pages of evidence, eventually leading to a 300-page report.
Pindown got its name because the main practitioner of the regime, when faced with a supposedly difficult child in his charge, would point his finger and say he would "pin down" the problem. Children were put into rooms called "pindown rooms" sometimes for periods of weeks or months without adequate clothing, recreation, communication and furnishings. The inquiry report, which was published in 1991, was both authoritative and influential; it trenchantly condemned the practice of pindown and made important recommendations. Some of the recommendations went on to be implemented, but some awaited implementation for over 10 years afterwards, to Levy's deep frustration.
After the Pindown report he continued to be at the forefront of developments in the law relating to children. A major reform of children's law, the Children Act 1989, came into force in 1991 and he was involved in leading decisions on its interpretation. The medical profession also turned to him for authoritative and balanced advice. He chaired the British Medical Association Steering Committee which led to publication in December 2000 of comprehensive practical guidance on the ethical and legal issues which arise in health care of patients under 18, Consent, Rights and Choices in Health Care for Children and Young People.
His standing within the legal profession was recognised when he took silk in 1989, became a Bencher of the Inner Temple in 1993 and sat as an Assistant Recorder from 1990 to1993 and then as a Recorder from 1993 to 2001.
Developments in human-rights law in recent years were seen by Levy as an opportunity for advancing the rights of children. In 1998 he took a case to the European Court of Human Rights which raised an important issue in relation to the use of corporal punishment. A stepfather beat a nine-year-old boy with a garden cane causing the boy to suffer severe bruising. The stepfather was charged with the criminal offence of assault occasioning actual bodily harm. He raised the defence of necessary and reasonable chastisement, and was found not guilty.
On behalf of the child, Levy argued that there had been a breach of the child's right not to be subjected to "inhuman or degrading treatment" under Article 3 of the Convention for Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. The court found that there had been a breach and that in permitting the defence of reasonable chastisement the United Kingdom was failing to protect children from such ill-treatment.
In another case in 1999, he successfully persuaded the House of Lords that it should be possible for a child who had been brought up in local authority care, and who alleged that the negligence of the local authority had caused him psychiatric injury, to bring an action for negligence against that authority.
Even though he was suffering from cancer of the oesophagus, in May and again in July this year he was involved in preparing submissions to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights on a matter close to his heart. His concern was the proposal to leave intact the defence of lawful chastisement in offences of common assault. He made his view clear: to do so would not meet the UK's obligations under international human-rights instruments. In the same vein, in July he published an article expressing clearly and passionately his objections to corporal punishment.
Despite his skill in explaining family issues to a public audience through the media, and his friendliness and humour with those he knew, Allan Levy was an unassuming and private man. He had a love of books. His home was full of them and he once said he could not move because he could not move all the books. He had a marvellous collection of Lowry paintings. He was an unfailing supporter of Manchester City Football Club. He loved travel. He would travel to watch the English cricket team aboard, as well as to wilder and more remote shores, as far flung as Antarctica.
Sometimes he would combine his love of travel with lecturing abroad. He was, for example, a speaker at the Seventh International Congress on Child Abuse in Rio de Janeiro in 1988. He had gone to speak about child abuse in the light of the Cleveland Inquiry, but came back deeply struck by the plight of the "street children". This was typical of his compassion and the concern for the rights of children which characterised his life.
Pamela Scriven
Why are pubescent boys being adopted by homosexual couple?
Why are pubescent boys being adopted by homosexual couple?
February 1, 2009
Yo Mustafa and Paul Groulx may be stellar individuals and wonderful role models for all I know, but I still have to ask what was their motivation to adopt 3 pubescent boys, and why did the Children's Aid Society allow this to happen to these boys?
I was one of the busiest psychologist consultants for Catholic Children's Aid Society, starting in 1976. I saw hundreds of these unadoptable children. By the time that a foster child had reached 9 or 10, we knew that the child was not going to bond with a parent figure. They were not adoptable. The focus was on providing care and maintaining family relationships, even though those family relationships may have been problematic and the reason why the children were in care in the first place. They needed these primary attachments. In other words, they were Crown Wards with Access. They would grow up in care, but they would remain attached to their birth parents and kinship bonds. These children typically had many problems and did not fit into foster homes, so there were many moves. The growth in group homes came as a result of this population of children who needed basic care but who were not going to form parent-child bonds with anyone else, children who had "special needs," i.e. many emotional and behavioural issues. A Society lawyer was known to say that any kid growing up in Regent Park had been sexually abused before reaching age 12. This was his catchment area but could apply to many neighborhoods, given the large number of pedophiles which live amongst us.
So, back to Yo Mustafa and Paul Groulx. Suddenly, 2 homosexuals with presumably no parental experience can deal with not one, not two, but 3 foster boys of the demographic that not even seasoned foster parents can manage in a family setting---pubescent foster boys who may have a history of abuse and expect it and need extra care, children who are vulnerable, distrustful and rebellious. I was especially troubled by the fact that this couple was able to hire their own social service worker to approve their parenting plan. What kind of oversight for vulnerable children is this? It has been demonstrated that the rate of pedophilia is high among homosexual men -- reference the existence and lobbying efforts of the National Man Boy Love Association. This is not to say that every homosexual is a pedophile, of course, or that Mustafa and Groulx are. I want to make it clear that I am not making this assertion about them.
However, given that the incidence of pedophilia is higher among homosexual men, the risk of placement of children, particularly boys, particularly pubescent boys with surging levels of hormones, is necessarily higher. Yet, this risk is not taken into account in adoption placement, and thus there is a dereliction of duty to protect these children. I cannot help but hypothesize that these children are being placed at higher risk in order to placate the homosexual community, but if the child welfare system loses its focus on its mandated priority -- the protection of children -- it loses the reason for its existence and becomes a danger in itself.
I was also concerned about the fact that these boys were moved far away from their community and away from their friends and sources of support and assistance if they run into trouble in their "adoptive family."
I also have other other admittedly dangerous and incendiary questions for the child welfare system. Given that the government provides funding for foster children, and that group homes reap benefits from youths growing up in care, and given that these benefits end when a child is adopted, what is their motivation in providing homes for pubescent boys who don't want to be adopted. Are these children essentially for sale? Is the CAS trying to reduce its liability given the amount of abuse that happens while children are in their care? It appears, that contrary to their legal rights, these children may have been used as property, put up to bidders, without having their legal rights to consent or refuse their placement. The law presumes capacity to make decisions about one's residence, irrespective of age, (Substitute Decisions Act, 1992) but there is nothing in the newspaper article that indicated that these children knew that they had these rights and were able to exercise them. If the Children's Aid Society were to go into the human trafficking business, they have a good supply and there is undoubtedly a high demand.
Dr Marty McKay
February 1, 2009
Yo Mustafa and Paul Groulx may be stellar individuals and wonderful role models for all I know, but I still have to ask what was their motivation to adopt 3 pubescent boys, and why did the Children's Aid Society allow this to happen to these boys?
I was one of the busiest psychologist consultants for Catholic Children's Aid Society, starting in 1976. I saw hundreds of these unadoptable children. By the time that a foster child had reached 9 or 10, we knew that the child was not going to bond with a parent figure. They were not adoptable. The focus was on providing care and maintaining family relationships, even though those family relationships may have been problematic and the reason why the children were in care in the first place. They needed these primary attachments. In other words, they were Crown Wards with Access. They would grow up in care, but they would remain attached to their birth parents and kinship bonds. These children typically had many problems and did not fit into foster homes, so there were many moves. The growth in group homes came as a result of this population of children who needed basic care but who were not going to form parent-child bonds with anyone else, children who had "special needs," i.e. many emotional and behavioural issues. A Society lawyer was known to say that any kid growing up in Regent Park had been sexually abused before reaching age 12. This was his catchment area but could apply to many neighborhoods, given the large number of pedophiles which live amongst us.
So, back to Yo Mustafa and Paul Groulx. Suddenly, 2 homosexuals with presumably no parental experience can deal with not one, not two, but 3 foster boys of the demographic that not even seasoned foster parents can manage in a family setting---pubescent foster boys who may have a history of abuse and expect it and need extra care, children who are vulnerable, distrustful and rebellious. I was especially troubled by the fact that this couple was able to hire their own social service worker to approve their parenting plan. What kind of oversight for vulnerable children is this? It has been demonstrated that the rate of pedophilia is high among homosexual men -- reference the existence and lobbying efforts of the National Man Boy Love Association. This is not to say that every homosexual is a pedophile, of course, or that Mustafa and Groulx are. I want to make it clear that I am not making this assertion about them.
However, given that the incidence of pedophilia is higher among homosexual men, the risk of placement of children, particularly boys, particularly pubescent boys with surging levels of hormones, is necessarily higher. Yet, this risk is not taken into account in adoption placement, and thus there is a dereliction of duty to protect these children. I cannot help but hypothesize that these children are being placed at higher risk in order to placate the homosexual community, but if the child welfare system loses its focus on its mandated priority -- the protection of children -- it loses the reason for its existence and becomes a danger in itself.
I was also concerned about the fact that these boys were moved far away from their community and away from their friends and sources of support and assistance if they run into trouble in their "adoptive family."
I also have other other admittedly dangerous and incendiary questions for the child welfare system. Given that the government provides funding for foster children, and that group homes reap benefits from youths growing up in care, and given that these benefits end when a child is adopted, what is their motivation in providing homes for pubescent boys who don't want to be adopted. Are these children essentially for sale? Is the CAS trying to reduce its liability given the amount of abuse that happens while children are in their care? It appears, that contrary to their legal rights, these children may have been used as property, put up to bidders, without having their legal rights to consent or refuse their placement. The law presumes capacity to make decisions about one's residence, irrespective of age, (Substitute Decisions Act, 1992) but there is nothing in the newspaper article that indicated that these children knew that they had these rights and were able to exercise them. If the Children's Aid Society were to go into the human trafficking business, they have a good supply and there is undoubtedly a high demand.
Dr Marty McKay
PINDOWN WAS A BOOMING INDUSTRY - AKA BOOT CAMP
Relief for Teens
January 31, 2009
A small industry exists to correct the behavior of teenagers. Some market their services to parents, claiming that their trained counselors will provide therapy for their clients, others market primarily to criminal courts and child protection agencies. Either way, once the teenager gets into their custody, he gets nothing but boot-camp humiliation. When an inmate has a medical problem, the staff construes it as malingering, and becomes even more abusive, often until it is too late and the child is dead. Since children in these circumstances are often uncooperative and unruly, the camps employ goons to keep them under control, another source of frequent death. Our list of deaths in non-parental care includes 61 caused by "restraint", most in boot camps or mental hospitals.
An article below from the blog of Mother Jones magazine shows that the current economic downturn is forcing many of these camps to close.
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Economy Killing Abusive Teen Programs
Below is a guest blog entry by MoJo author Maia Szalavitz:
There is a silver lining to this bleak economy: Abusive and ineffective "tough love" programs for teens are failing right and left.
In just the last few weeks, the notorious Tranquility Bay program in Jamaica, Spring Creek Lodge in Montana, and Pathway Family Center in Detroit and Ohio have all been shuttered.
Tranquility Bay was known for making kids kneel on concrete for days, using "restraint" so harsh that it broke bones. Both Tranquility Bay and Spring Creek Lodge were part of a network called the World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools (WWASP or WWASPS)—and the group’s philosophy involves constant use of emotional attacks and humiliation in a rigid, structured day in order to break teens' spirits.
Spring Creek was notorious for a frigid, small isolation room called "the Hobbit"—sometimes teens were left there for months.
From Pathway—which was descended from the infamously abusive Straight Inc.—I received two separate accounts of suicide attempts by girls which were not reported to their parents, and many stories of the usual attack therapy and humiliation. Unfortunately, neither WWASP nor Pathway is completely dead yet: WWASP still has centers operating in the US and abroad, and Pathway has sites in Indiana: Porter and Indianapolis.
The media tends to present these closures as sad examples of needed services being cut—but in fact, teens are better off with no treatment than with treatment that often divides families and has characteristics known to produce post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Family support tends to be crucial to long term recovery—and PTSD doubles the odds that a drug problem will become a lasting addiction.
Troubled teen programs were yet another sign of the bubble economy. Many were financed by mortgage and home equity loans because they cost thousands of dollars a month and because insurers, quite correctly, don't usually pay for programs that aren't proven to help.
Since there are proven alternatives for teens with drug and other problems that do not carry the risks of "tough love," we should greet the closings of these centers with glee. And those who care about this issue should keep the pressure on so that the wounded programs finally die. After all, there are still teens suffering inside, being "treated" without dignity or respect—some of whom were just transferred from closed programs to other similar, sites.
Legislation to ban the most egregious practices is coming—and may well be strengthened now that the Democrats control Congress and the White House. But an even better outcome would be for the "troubled teen" industry to wither and be replaced by what the evidence shows works: community-based, family-centered, minimally restrictive, and youth-driven care.
Maia Szalavitz is the author of "Help At Any Cost: How the Troubled-Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids," and Senior Fellow at stats.org.
Posted by Nikki Gloudeman on 01/30/09 at 2:03 PM
Source: Mother Jones blog January 30, 2009
January 31, 2009
A small industry exists to correct the behavior of teenagers. Some market their services to parents, claiming that their trained counselors will provide therapy for their clients, others market primarily to criminal courts and child protection agencies. Either way, once the teenager gets into their custody, he gets nothing but boot-camp humiliation. When an inmate has a medical problem, the staff construes it as malingering, and becomes even more abusive, often until it is too late and the child is dead. Since children in these circumstances are often uncooperative and unruly, the camps employ goons to keep them under control, another source of frequent death. Our list of deaths in non-parental care includes 61 caused by "restraint", most in boot camps or mental hospitals.
An article below from the blog of Mother Jones magazine shows that the current economic downturn is forcing many of these camps to close.
expand
collapse
Economy Killing Abusive Teen Programs
Below is a guest blog entry by MoJo author Maia Szalavitz:
There is a silver lining to this bleak economy: Abusive and ineffective "tough love" programs for teens are failing right and left.
In just the last few weeks, the notorious Tranquility Bay program in Jamaica, Spring Creek Lodge in Montana, and Pathway Family Center in Detroit and Ohio have all been shuttered.
Tranquility Bay was known for making kids kneel on concrete for days, using "restraint" so harsh that it broke bones. Both Tranquility Bay and Spring Creek Lodge were part of a network called the World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools (WWASP or WWASPS)—and the group’s philosophy involves constant use of emotional attacks and humiliation in a rigid, structured day in order to break teens' spirits.
Spring Creek was notorious for a frigid, small isolation room called "the Hobbit"—sometimes teens were left there for months.
From Pathway—which was descended from the infamously abusive Straight Inc.—I received two separate accounts of suicide attempts by girls which were not reported to their parents, and many stories of the usual attack therapy and humiliation. Unfortunately, neither WWASP nor Pathway is completely dead yet: WWASP still has centers operating in the US and abroad, and Pathway has sites in Indiana: Porter and Indianapolis.
The media tends to present these closures as sad examples of needed services being cut—but in fact, teens are better off with no treatment than with treatment that often divides families and has characteristics known to produce post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Family support tends to be crucial to long term recovery—and PTSD doubles the odds that a drug problem will become a lasting addiction.
Troubled teen programs were yet another sign of the bubble economy. Many were financed by mortgage and home equity loans because they cost thousands of dollars a month and because insurers, quite correctly, don't usually pay for programs that aren't proven to help.
Since there are proven alternatives for teens with drug and other problems that do not carry the risks of "tough love," we should greet the closings of these centers with glee. And those who care about this issue should keep the pressure on so that the wounded programs finally die. After all, there are still teens suffering inside, being "treated" without dignity or respect—some of whom were just transferred from closed programs to other similar, sites.
Legislation to ban the most egregious practices is coming—and may well be strengthened now that the Democrats control Congress and the White House. But an even better outcome would be for the "troubled teen" industry to wither and be replaced by what the evidence shows works: community-based, family-centered, minimally restrictive, and youth-driven care.
Maia Szalavitz is the author of "Help At Any Cost: How the Troubled-Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids," and Senior Fellow at stats.org.
Posted by Nikki Gloudeman on 01/30/09 at 2:03 PM
Source: Mother Jones blog January 30, 2009
Tuesday, 16 June 2009
"Safeline" trolls
Looks like I'm going to have the "Safeline" trolls tagging me all over the internet from now on.
Good.
If they are wasting their time tailing me and leaving nasty comments then they have less time to play mind games with more vunerable abuse survivors!
Praise the Lord!
Good.
If they are wasting their time tailing me and leaving nasty comments then they have less time to play mind games with more vunerable abuse survivors!
Praise the Lord!
OPERATION BLAST - WHAT A BLASTED WASTE OF POLICE TIME!
Jersey Police keep secret files on States members
Jersey's Home Affairs minister has told States members the police have been keeping secret files on every elected States member. It was called 'Operation Blast' and was known to only a handful of top police officers.
Each file included a photograph of the member, their full criminal record and information gathered from both local and national police forces.
Senator Ian Le Marquand says the operation was so secret every effort was made to keep the 'recording of the information out of normal procedure.'
The revelation has angered States members. They've been told they can contact the acting police chief but they can't look at their files.
Deputy Trevor Pitman has likened Jersey to Zimbabwe and Deputy Mike Higgins wants to know why, under the Freedom of Information Act, members cannot look at their files.
Senator Stuart Syvret has asked whether any former crown officers knew about 'Operation Blast'. Senator Syvret is also worried MI5 and Special Branch have been gathering information on his involvement with Greenpeace.
Acting Police Chief David Warcup of the States of Jersey Police has issued the following statement:
"Action has already been taken to instigate a review to look at the retention of information within the States of Jersey Police. When the review is complete, I will then determine what if any, action needs to be taken.
I would, however, like to reassure the public that there are clearly laid down and regulated practices and procedures governing the handling of information by the police and I will be making sure that they are fully complied with.
At this time, we have nothing further to add in addition to the minister's statement."
We'll have more on this story in Channel Report on Channel Television, tonight at 6pm.
Jersey's Home Affairs minister has told States members the police have been keeping secret files on every elected States member. It was called 'Operation Blast' and was known to only a handful of top police officers.
Each file included a photograph of the member, their full criminal record and information gathered from both local and national police forces.
Senator Ian Le Marquand says the operation was so secret every effort was made to keep the 'recording of the information out of normal procedure.'
The revelation has angered States members. They've been told they can contact the acting police chief but they can't look at their files.
Deputy Trevor Pitman has likened Jersey to Zimbabwe and Deputy Mike Higgins wants to know why, under the Freedom of Information Act, members cannot look at their files.
Senator Stuart Syvret has asked whether any former crown officers knew about 'Operation Blast'. Senator Syvret is also worried MI5 and Special Branch have been gathering information on his involvement with Greenpeace.
Acting Police Chief David Warcup of the States of Jersey Police has issued the following statement:
"Action has already been taken to instigate a review to look at the retention of information within the States of Jersey Police. When the review is complete, I will then determine what if any, action needs to be taken.
I would, however, like to reassure the public that there are clearly laid down and regulated practices and procedures governing the handling of information by the police and I will be making sure that they are fully complied with.
At this time, we have nothing further to add in addition to the minister's statement."
We'll have more on this story in Channel Report on Channel Television, tonight at 6pm.
Perhaps we just can't believe that anyone would sell poison as if it were a miracle cure
The Anti-Depressant Fact Book
What Your Doctor Won't Tell You
About Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Celexa, and Luvox
Perseus Publishing - Cambridge, Massachusetts
copyright 2001, paperback
by Peter R. Breggin, M.D.
reviewed by
Douglas A. Smith
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book because it says so clearly and convincingly what I have believed for a long time about the myth of biologically caused depression and about so-called antidepressant drugs and so-called electroconvulsive "therapy" (ECT).
Of the idea of biologically caused depression, the author, psychiatrist Peter Breggin, says "It is a mistake to view depressed feelings or even severely depressed feelings as a 'disease'" (p. 14) and "There is still no reason to define grief, dejection, or melancholia as a 'disease' simply because it is severe or lasting" (p. 19). He says "...in psychiatry, none of the problems are proven to originate in the brain" (p. 169) and that "Depression is never defined by an objective physical finding, such as a blood test or brain scan. ... Attempts have also been made to find physical markers for depression, the equivalent of lab tests that indicate liver disease or a recent heart attack. Despite decades of research, thousands of research studies, and hundreds of millions of dollars in expense, no marker for depression has been found" (pp. 18 & 22).
Of the theory behind the so-called SSRI or selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor "antidepressants" Dr. Breggin says "In reality, science does not have the ability to measure the levels of any biochemical in the tiny spaces between nerve cells (the synapses) in the brain of a human being. All the talk about biochemical imbalances is sheer speculation aimed at promoting psychiatric drugs. ... science has almost no understanding of how the widespread serotonin system functions in the brain. Basically, we don't know what it does." (pp. 21 & 42).
Of drugs used to "treat" this nonexistent disease called depression he says "The term 'antidepressant' should always be thought of with quotation marks around it because there is little or no reason to believe that these drugs target depression or depressed feelings" (p. 14). He says "Impairing our emotional awareness and our intellectual acuity with psychoactive drugs such as SSRI antidepressants [including Prozac, Paxil, and Zoloft] tends to impede the process of overcoming depression" (p. 26). About the foolishness of the beliefs of most people about psychiatric drugs he says:
Overall, we're a rather sophisticated citizenry with a fairly high index of suspicion about the products we buy and the corporations that influence our lives. But something happens to us when we are dealing with companies that make prescription medicines. Perhaps it's the aura of FDA approval. Perhaps it's the passage of these drugs through the trusted hands of our physicians. Perhaps it's the cleverness of the ad campaigns. Perhaps we just can't believe that anyone would sell poison as if it were a miracle cure. [p. 2]
That's right: He said "poison." Psychiatric drugs are poisons. In a chapter titled "Damaging the Brain with SSRI Antidepressants," Dr. Breggin says "the evidence is piling up that SSRIs cause permanent brain damage" (p. 38). Let's stop concealing or minimizing this truth as we do when we call psychiatric drugs "medications" or say they are merely "ineffective" or "harmful" or even "neurotoxic." Lawyers trying to defend us from outpatient commitment laws (as they are called in the USA) or laws authorizing "community treatment orders" (CTOs) (as such laws are called in Canada) should stop accepting the terminology of those advocating forced psychiatric drugging. Lawyers trying to defend us from forced psychiatric drugging should not go into court and say the so-called patient should not be ordered "to take his medication." Because psychiatric drugs are poisons, and because most that are administered by force cause permanent brain damage, lawyers representing people threatened with forced psychiatric drugging should tell it like it is and say, "Judge, the question presented for your decision today is whether my client should be ordered to swallow poison - poison that is known to cause permanent brain damage." Letting advocates of forced psychiatric treatment get away with calling brain-damaging poisons "medications" is hurting our cause. It has been said: Whoever controls the language controls the perceived reality of those who have it. Let's not let the advocates of forced psychiatric "treatment" and those who would persuade gullible people to take harmful drugs win because they use deceptive semantics.
In the Introduction Dr. Breggin reveals why pharmaceutical companies would do something as evil as hoodwink people into believing poisons are in fact miracle cures. He says: "In the previous year [1999], Prozac had generated more than one-quarter of the company's [Eli Lilly & Company's] $10 billion in revenue" and that "Prozac, Zoloft, and Paxil are among the top-selling drugs in the United States, with total sales exceeding $4 billion per year" (p. 1). We apparently can't expect pharmaceutical companies to bypass enormous profits just because the drugs they sell are hurting people.
Throughout this book Dr. Breggin points an accusing finger at the USA's Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which is given the responsibility of keeping harmful drugs off the market in the USA. After reviewing how the FDA had to accept misleading, manipulated data to approve SSRI antidepressants as safe and effective, and after reviewing the harm done by these drugs, he says "If the FDA had been more responsible, these continuing tragedies could have been avoided. ... When I began my review of FDA documents as a medical expert in product liability suits against Eli Lilly and Co., I was shocked and disillusioned by what I found. Until that time, I had not fully confronted the willingness of the FDA to protect drug companies, even at the cost of human life." (pp. 78-79). He says "The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has forsaken its watchdog role. Instead, FDA officials climb like puppies into the laps of drug company executives who might some day hire them at enormous salaries" (p. 181).
One of the reasons I like this book is in it Dr. Breggin is as bold as he has been in any of his previous books when describing the pseudoscience called biological psychiatry and the harm done by its so-called treatments. For example, speaking of psychiatric drugs he says -
* "If a drug has an effect on the brain, it is harming the brain. Science has not found or synthesized any psychoactive substances that improve normal brain function. Instead, all of them impair brain function. ... antidepressants are typically prescribed in doses that cause a wide variety of adverse effects in most patients and significantly harm a great many people" (p. 168).
* "FDA approval by no means indicates that a drug is truly effective. ... the combined efforts of the drug company and the FDA could not come up with even one good study that unequivocally supported the value of Prozac in comparison to placebo" (p. 151).
* "Overall, the results suggest that placebo is actually much better than an antidepressant" (p. 145).
* "If anything, as I've already indicated, antidepressants worsen severe depression and suicidal tendencies" (p. 170).
* "Nothing reinforces depression more than having your brain befuddled by psychiatric drugs, unless it is having your mind befuddled by false ideas about the biological or genetic origin of your suffering" (p. 189).
* "Lithium, for example, is a toxic element that suppresses over-all brain function..." (p. 125)
* "There are so many potential hazards involved in taking SSRIs that no physician is capable of remembering all of them and no patient can be adequately informed about the dangers without spending days or weeks reviewing the subject in a medical library" (p. 107).
Of electroconvulsive "therapy" (ECT) he says -
* "Damaging the brain to impair brain function lies at the heart of all the physical treatments in psychiatry. Shock and lobotomy are merely the most egregious examples" (p. 155, italics in original).
* He deplores "the willingness of psychiatry to defend its treatments no matter how obviously damaging to the brain" (ibid).
* "In my clinical and forensic experience, patients and their families are never told the truth about how dangerous shock is; otherwise they would not consent to it. Shock advocates tend to tell patients that memory loss is temporary and surrounds the treatment time only, when in reality the memory loss can wipe out years of educational and career knowledge. ... Nurses, teachers, and other professionals may never again be able to function in their jobs. Like head injury patients from other causes, such as automobile accidents and lighting strikes, general mental function is often impaired for the rest of their lives. Advocates [of ECT] ignore this by chalking it up to the patient's 'mental illness.'" (pp. 160-161).
* "Electroshock treatment causes brain damage and, in my clinical experience, can cause lasting depression" (p. 141). This of course is in contrast to psychiatry's claim that by some unknown means ECT relieves depression.
* "The question is not 'Does shock treatment cause brain dysfunction and damage?' A series of shocks to the head sufficient to cause convulsions will always produce brain dysfunction and damage. The real question is 'How completely can a person recover from shock?'" (p. 162).
* Advocates of shock claim that newer methods make it safer. ... Instead, it's more dangerous. ... modified ECT requires the use of higher amounts of electrical charge than were used in the early animal experiments that showed brain damage and cell death" (p. 163).
* "In my clinical experience, the brain damage [caused by electroconvulsive therapy, or ECT] makes people feel more hopeless and resentful, and hence more suicidal" (p. 164).
* "Several state legislatures have passed laws banning shock treatment for children. It's now time to ban it for adults a well" (p. 165).
This book is a fairly short (200 page), recent (2001) book that neatly summarizes many of the best arguments against biological psychiatry. I recommend it highly.
_________________________
You can buy this book from -
amazon.com ($10.40) or barnesandnoble.com ($11.70)
(prices as of January 29, 2002)
What Your Doctor Won't Tell You
About Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Celexa, and Luvox
Perseus Publishing - Cambridge, Massachusetts
copyright 2001, paperback
by Peter R. Breggin, M.D.
reviewed by
Douglas A. Smith
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book because it says so clearly and convincingly what I have believed for a long time about the myth of biologically caused depression and about so-called antidepressant drugs and so-called electroconvulsive "therapy" (ECT).
Of the idea of biologically caused depression, the author, psychiatrist Peter Breggin, says "It is a mistake to view depressed feelings or even severely depressed feelings as a 'disease'" (p. 14) and "There is still no reason to define grief, dejection, or melancholia as a 'disease' simply because it is severe or lasting" (p. 19). He says "...in psychiatry, none of the problems are proven to originate in the brain" (p. 169) and that "Depression is never defined by an objective physical finding, such as a blood test or brain scan. ... Attempts have also been made to find physical markers for depression, the equivalent of lab tests that indicate liver disease or a recent heart attack. Despite decades of research, thousands of research studies, and hundreds of millions of dollars in expense, no marker for depression has been found" (pp. 18 & 22).
Of the theory behind the so-called SSRI or selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor "antidepressants" Dr. Breggin says "In reality, science does not have the ability to measure the levels of any biochemical in the tiny spaces between nerve cells (the synapses) in the brain of a human being. All the talk about biochemical imbalances is sheer speculation aimed at promoting psychiatric drugs. ... science has almost no understanding of how the widespread serotonin system functions in the brain. Basically, we don't know what it does." (pp. 21 & 42).
Of drugs used to "treat" this nonexistent disease called depression he says "The term 'antidepressant' should always be thought of with quotation marks around it because there is little or no reason to believe that these drugs target depression or depressed feelings" (p. 14). He says "Impairing our emotional awareness and our intellectual acuity with psychoactive drugs such as SSRI antidepressants [including Prozac, Paxil, and Zoloft] tends to impede the process of overcoming depression" (p. 26). About the foolishness of the beliefs of most people about psychiatric drugs he says:
Overall, we're a rather sophisticated citizenry with a fairly high index of suspicion about the products we buy and the corporations that influence our lives. But something happens to us when we are dealing with companies that make prescription medicines. Perhaps it's the aura of FDA approval. Perhaps it's the passage of these drugs through the trusted hands of our physicians. Perhaps it's the cleverness of the ad campaigns. Perhaps we just can't believe that anyone would sell poison as if it were a miracle cure. [p. 2]
That's right: He said "poison." Psychiatric drugs are poisons. In a chapter titled "Damaging the Brain with SSRI Antidepressants," Dr. Breggin says "the evidence is piling up that SSRIs cause permanent brain damage" (p. 38). Let's stop concealing or minimizing this truth as we do when we call psychiatric drugs "medications" or say they are merely "ineffective" or "harmful" or even "neurotoxic." Lawyers trying to defend us from outpatient commitment laws (as they are called in the USA) or laws authorizing "community treatment orders" (CTOs) (as such laws are called in Canada) should stop accepting the terminology of those advocating forced psychiatric drugging. Lawyers trying to defend us from forced psychiatric drugging should not go into court and say the so-called patient should not be ordered "to take his medication." Because psychiatric drugs are poisons, and because most that are administered by force cause permanent brain damage, lawyers representing people threatened with forced psychiatric drugging should tell it like it is and say, "Judge, the question presented for your decision today is whether my client should be ordered to swallow poison - poison that is known to cause permanent brain damage." Letting advocates of forced psychiatric treatment get away with calling brain-damaging poisons "medications" is hurting our cause. It has been said: Whoever controls the language controls the perceived reality of those who have it. Let's not let the advocates of forced psychiatric "treatment" and those who would persuade gullible people to take harmful drugs win because they use deceptive semantics.
In the Introduction Dr. Breggin reveals why pharmaceutical companies would do something as evil as hoodwink people into believing poisons are in fact miracle cures. He says: "In the previous year [1999], Prozac had generated more than one-quarter of the company's [Eli Lilly & Company's] $10 billion in revenue" and that "Prozac, Zoloft, and Paxil are among the top-selling drugs in the United States, with total sales exceeding $4 billion per year" (p. 1). We apparently can't expect pharmaceutical companies to bypass enormous profits just because the drugs they sell are hurting people.
Throughout this book Dr. Breggin points an accusing finger at the USA's Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which is given the responsibility of keeping harmful drugs off the market in the USA. After reviewing how the FDA had to accept misleading, manipulated data to approve SSRI antidepressants as safe and effective, and after reviewing the harm done by these drugs, he says "If the FDA had been more responsible, these continuing tragedies could have been avoided. ... When I began my review of FDA documents as a medical expert in product liability suits against Eli Lilly and Co., I was shocked and disillusioned by what I found. Until that time, I had not fully confronted the willingness of the FDA to protect drug companies, even at the cost of human life." (pp. 78-79). He says "The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has forsaken its watchdog role. Instead, FDA officials climb like puppies into the laps of drug company executives who might some day hire them at enormous salaries" (p. 181).
One of the reasons I like this book is in it Dr. Breggin is as bold as he has been in any of his previous books when describing the pseudoscience called biological psychiatry and the harm done by its so-called treatments. For example, speaking of psychiatric drugs he says -
* "If a drug has an effect on the brain, it is harming the brain. Science has not found or synthesized any psychoactive substances that improve normal brain function. Instead, all of them impair brain function. ... antidepressants are typically prescribed in doses that cause a wide variety of adverse effects in most patients and significantly harm a great many people" (p. 168).
* "FDA approval by no means indicates that a drug is truly effective. ... the combined efforts of the drug company and the FDA could not come up with even one good study that unequivocally supported the value of Prozac in comparison to placebo" (p. 151).
* "Overall, the results suggest that placebo is actually much better than an antidepressant" (p. 145).
* "If anything, as I've already indicated, antidepressants worsen severe depression and suicidal tendencies" (p. 170).
* "Nothing reinforces depression more than having your brain befuddled by psychiatric drugs, unless it is having your mind befuddled by false ideas about the biological or genetic origin of your suffering" (p. 189).
* "Lithium, for example, is a toxic element that suppresses over-all brain function..." (p. 125)
* "There are so many potential hazards involved in taking SSRIs that no physician is capable of remembering all of them and no patient can be adequately informed about the dangers without spending days or weeks reviewing the subject in a medical library" (p. 107).
Of electroconvulsive "therapy" (ECT) he says -
* "Damaging the brain to impair brain function lies at the heart of all the physical treatments in psychiatry. Shock and lobotomy are merely the most egregious examples" (p. 155, italics in original).
* He deplores "the willingness of psychiatry to defend its treatments no matter how obviously damaging to the brain" (ibid).
* "In my clinical and forensic experience, patients and their families are never told the truth about how dangerous shock is; otherwise they would not consent to it. Shock advocates tend to tell patients that memory loss is temporary and surrounds the treatment time only, when in reality the memory loss can wipe out years of educational and career knowledge. ... Nurses, teachers, and other professionals may never again be able to function in their jobs. Like head injury patients from other causes, such as automobile accidents and lighting strikes, general mental function is often impaired for the rest of their lives. Advocates [of ECT] ignore this by chalking it up to the patient's 'mental illness.'" (pp. 160-161).
* "Electroshock treatment causes brain damage and, in my clinical experience, can cause lasting depression" (p. 141). This of course is in contrast to psychiatry's claim that by some unknown means ECT relieves depression.
* "The question is not 'Does shock treatment cause brain dysfunction and damage?' A series of shocks to the head sufficient to cause convulsions will always produce brain dysfunction and damage. The real question is 'How completely can a person recover from shock?'" (p. 162).
* Advocates of shock claim that newer methods make it safer. ... Instead, it's more dangerous. ... modified ECT requires the use of higher amounts of electrical charge than were used in the early animal experiments that showed brain damage and cell death" (p. 163).
* "In my clinical experience, the brain damage [caused by electroconvulsive therapy, or ECT] makes people feel more hopeless and resentful, and hence more suicidal" (p. 164).
* "Several state legislatures have passed laws banning shock treatment for children. It's now time to ban it for adults a well" (p. 165).
This book is a fairly short (200 page), recent (2001) book that neatly summarizes many of the best arguments against biological psychiatry. I recommend it highly.
_________________________
You can buy this book from -
amazon.com ($10.40) or barnesandnoble.com ($11.70)
(prices as of January 29, 2002)
Antidepressant Nightmares
SSRI Stories Antidepressant Nightmares
What Drug Date Where Additional
School Shooting Prozac WITHDRAWAL 2008-02-15 Illinois ** 6 Dead: 15 Wounded: Perpetrator Was in Withdrawal from Med & Acting Erratically
School Shooting Prozac Antidepressant 2005-03-24 Minnesota **10 Dead: 7 Wounded: Dosage Increased One Week before Rampage
School Shooting Paxil [Seroxat] Antidepressant 2001-03-10 Pennsylvania **14 Year Old GIRL Shoots & Wounds Classmate at Catholic School
School Shooting Zoloft Antidepressant 1995-10-12 South Carolina **15 Year Old Shoots Two Teachers, Killing One: Then Kills Himself
School Shooting Med For Depression 2009-03-13 Germany **16 Dead Including Shooter: Antidepressant Use: Shooter in Treatment For Depression
School Shooting Plot Med For Depression Withdrawal 2008-08-28 Texas **18 Year Old Plots a Columbine School Attack
School Shooting Anafranil Antidepressant 1988-05-20 Illinois **29 Year Old WOMAN Kills One Child: Wounds Five: Kills Self
School Shooting Luvox/Zoloft Antidepressants 1999-04-20 Colorado **COLUMBINE: 15 Dead: 24 Wounded
School Shooting Prozac Antidepressant WITHDRAWAL 1998-05-21 Oregon **Four Dead: Twenty Injured
School Shooting Antidepressant 2006-09-30 Colorado **Man Assaults Girls: Kills One & Self
School Machete Attack Med for Depression 2001-09-26 Pennsylvania **Man Attacks 11 Children & 3 Teachers at Elementary School
School Shooting Antidepressants 1992-09-20 Texas **Man, Angry Over Daughter's Report Card, Shoots 14 Rounds inside Elementary School
School Shooting Threat Med for Depression* 2004-10-19 New Jersey **Over-Medicated Teen Brings Loaded Handguns to School
School Shooting Antidepressant? 2007-04-18 Virginia **Possible SSRI Use: 33 Dead at Virginia Tech
School Shooting Antidepressant? 2002-01-17 Virginia **Possible SSRI Withdrawal Mania: 3 Dead at Law School
School Shooting Prozac Antidepressant 1992-01-30 Michigan **School Teacher Shoots & Kills His Superintendent at School
School Violence/Murder Antidepressants* 1998-05-04 New York **Sheriff's Deputy Shoots his Wife in an Elementary School
School Threat Antidepressants 2007-04-23 Mississippi **Student Arrested for Making School Threat Over Internet
School Suspension Lexapro Antidepressant 2007-07-28 Arkansas **Student Has 11 Incidents with Police During his 16 Months on Lexapro
School Shooting Antidepressant WITHDRAWAL 2007-11-07 Finland **Student Kills 8: Wounds 10: Kills Self: High School in Finland
School Shooting Paxil [Seroxat] Antidepressant 2004-02-09 New York **Student Shoots Teacher in Leg at School
School Threat Prozac Antidepressant 2008-01-25 Washington **Student Takes Loaded Shotgun & 3 Rifles to School Parking Lot: Plans Suicide
School Shooting Plot Med For Depression 1998-12-01 Wisconsin **Teen Accused of Plotting to Gun Down Students at School
School/Assault Zoloft Antidepressant 2006-02-15 Tennessee **Teen Attacks Teacher at School
School Shooting Threat Antidepressant 1999-04-16 Idaho **Teen Fires Gun in School
School Hostage Situation Paxil & Effexor Antidepressants 2001-04-15 Washington **Teen Holds Classmates Hostage with a Gun
School Hostage Situation Antidepressant WITHDRAWAL 2006-11-28 North Carolina **Teen Holds Teacher & Student Hostage with Gun
School Knife Attack Med for Depression 2006-12-06 Indiana **Teen Knife Attacks Fellow Student
School Shooting Celexa & Effexor Antidepressants 2001-04-19 California **Teen Shoots at Classmates in School
School Shooting Celexa Antidepressant 2006-08-30 North Carolina **Teen Shoots at Two Students: Kills his Father: Celexa Found Among his Personal Effects
School Shooting Threat Antidepressant 2003-05-31 Michigan **Teen Threatens School Shooting: Charge is Terrorism
School Stand-Off Zoloft Antidepressant 1998-04-13 Idaho **Teen [14 Years Old] in School Holds Police At Bay: Fires Shots
School Shooting Antidepressant WITHDRAWAL 2007-10-12 Ohio **Teen [14 Years Old] School Shooter Possibly on Antidepressants or In Withdrawal
School Threat Antidepressants 2008-03-20 Indiana **Teen [16 Years Old] Brings Gun to School: There Is a Lockdown
School Suicide/Lockdown Med For Depression 2008-02-20 Idaho **Teen [16 Years Old] Kills Self at High School: Lockdown by Police
School Threats Prozac Antidepressant 1999-10-19 Florida **Teen [16 Years Old] Threatens Classmates With Knife & Fake Explosives
School Stabbing Med For Depression 2008-02-29 Texas **Teen [17 Year Old GIRL] Stabs Friend & Principal at High School
School Hostage Situation Prozac/ Paxil Antidepressants 2001-01-18 California **Teen [17 Years Old] Takes Girl Hostage at School: He is Killed by Police
School Knife Attack Treatment For Depression & Strattera 2009-03-10 Belgium **Three Dead in School Day Care: Two Children & a Caregiver: Happened Jan 23, 2009
School Arson Incidents Paxil 2002-04-12 Michigan **Unusual Personality Change on Paxil Caused 15 Year Old to Set Fires inside High School
School Violence Antidepressant 2005-11-19 Arizona **Violent 8 Year Old GIRL Handcuffed by Police at School
School Violence Celexa Antidepressant 2002-01-23 Florida **Violent 8 Year-Old Boy Arrested At School
School Threat/Lockdown Lexapro* 2008-04-18 California **Violent High School Student Shot to Death on Campus by Police
School / Child Endangerment Antidepressants 2008-02-27 Canada **Wacky School Bus Driver Goes Berserk: Also Involved Painkillers
School Violence Paxil 2004-10-23 Washington DC **Young Boy, 10 Year Old, Has Violent Incidents at School
School Threat Wellbutrin Antidepressant 2007-04-24 Tennessee **Young Boy, 12, Threatens to Shoot Others at School
School Hostage Situation Med for Depression 2006-03-09 France **Young Ex-Teacher Holds 21 Students Hostage
School Shooting/Suicide Celexa 2002-10-07 Texas **Young Girl [13 Years Old] Kills Self at School With a Gun
School Hostage Situation Paxil 2001-10-12 North Carolina **Young Man Holds Three People Hostage in Duke University President's Office
School Murder Attempt Med For Depression 1995-03-04 California **Young Woman Deliberately Hits 3 Kids with Her Car at Elementary School: Laughed During Attack
Murder Attempt Wellbutrin* 2006-02-12 Washington *82 Year Old Man Found Not Guilty: Med Defense
Air Rage Paxil* [Seroxat] 2006-01-25 England *Diplomat Cleared of Drinking Charges: Drug Blamed
Murder-Suicide Paxil* [Seroxat] 2001-08-09 Wyoming *Jury Finds Paxil Was Cause of Murder-Suicide
Shooting Antidepressant* 2005-03-05 Florida *Man Acquitted in Gas Station Shooting: Involuntary Intoxication by Med
Robbery/Armed Paxil [Seroxat] WITHDRAWAL* 2003-08-10 England *Man Cleared of Charges by Using Paxil Defense
Murder Zoloft* 2001-05-24 Australia *Man Found Not Guilty Using Zoloft Defense
Murder Attempt Zoloft* 2004-04-24 California *Man Found Not Guilty: Used Zoloft Defense
Murder Attempt-Suicide Attempt Effexor & Paxil* [Seroxat] 2003-06-17 Australia *Mother Acquitted by Using SSRI Defense
Murder Attempt Antidepressants* 2002-11-04 Arizona *Mother Acquitted of Attempted Child Murder
Murder Paxil & ADHD Drug* 2000-05-18 Washington *Mother Stabs Daughter: Not Guilty by Reason of Drug Induced Insanity
Murder Attempt Prozac 2008-05-20 Connecticut *Not Guilty Because of Psychosis Brought On by Prozac & Adderall
Murder Cymbalta Antidepressant 2007-05-15 Texas *Not Guilty by Reason of Cymbalta Induced Insanity: Man Kills Wife
Embezzlement/Bizarre Behavior Paxil* 2006-11-17 Florida *Not Guilty by Reason of Paxil Induced Insanity
Bank Robbery Prozac* 2002-11-16 Connecticut *Not Guilty by Reason of Prozac Induced Insanity
Murder Prozac* 2003-07-11 Louisiana *Not Guilty by Reason of Prozac Induced Insanity: Mother Kills Daughter
Violence Prozac* 2000-06-30 England *Woman Acquitted in Stabbing Incident
Stabbing Prozac 1998-10-13 Scotland *Woman Stabs Boyfriend: Used Prozac Defense: Placed on Probation
Adverse Reaction SSRIs 2006-12-20 Global ++1 Preliminary Study: LSD & SSRIs Share Same Mechanism in Some Ways: U. of Arizona
Mania & Psychosis Antidepressants 2004-02-02 U.S.A. ++200,000 a Year Enter Hospital Due to Antidepressant- Induced Mania/ Psychosis: FDA Testimony
Mania Antidepressants 2006-11-28 U.S.A. ++4.8 Million Person Increase in Bipolar Disorder in Last 11 Years: Majority Due to SSRI Use
Alcohol Craving Zoloft 2004-07-14 Global ++45 Out of 100 Alcoholics Increased Their Drinking on Zoloft
Deaths Wellbutrin* 2006-08-02 Washington DC ++468 Deaths Reported to FDA Thru 2003 : Freedom of Information
Misdiagnosis Med For Depression 2008-03-25 Global ++60% of 'Bipolars
Not Recommended For Youth SSRIs 2008-11-12 U.S.A. ++74% of Youth Will Not Respond to SSRIs: CNS Response Data
Suicidal Thoughts Antidepressants 2007-06-07 Global ++8.8% of Non-Suicidal People Had Suicidal Thoughts on Antidepressants
Self-Mutilation Prozac 2000-05-07 Global ++According To Patent, Prozac, launched in Dec.1987, Causes Self-Mutilation
Alcohol Abuse Effexor 2007-05-01 Global ++Alcohol Abuse & "Feeling Drunk" Listed as Side Effects in PDR
Alcohol Abuse Paxil 2007-05-01 Global ++Alcohol Abuse is Listed as an Adverse Reaction to Paxil in the Insert
Suicide/Impulsivity Antidepressants 2008-07-06 Global ++Almost One-Third of Suicides are Impulsive: Antidepressants Can Cause Impulsivity
Appear To Look Older Antidepressants 2009-02-04 Global ++Antidepressant Use Can Make People Look Older Than They Are: Also Causes Face Sagging: ASPS
Ineffectiveness Antidepressants 2008-02-25 Global ++Antidepressants Are Ineffective: PLoS Medicine
Cancer Acceleration Antidepressants 2008-09-13 Global ++Antidepressants Can Both Accelerate and/or Shut Down Cancer Growth
Mood Destabilization Antidepressants 2008-03-04 Global ++Antidepressants Cause Rapid Cycling & Mood Destabilization in Bipolar Disorder: Am J Psychiatry
Infertility Antidepressants 2008-09-24 Global ++Antidepressants Could Harm Sperm & Lead to Infertility
Ineffective Antidepressants 2007-03-29 Global ++Antidepressants Don't Help Bipolar Patients: New England Journal of Medicine
REM Sleep Inhibition Antidepressants 2008-08-01 Global ++Antidepressants Inhibit REM Sleep: Loss of Dreaming Can Lead to Serious Illness
Parasomnia Antidepressants 2007-11-28 Global ++Antidepressants May Cause Violence in Sleep: Journal Article
Misprescribing Antidepressants 2009-06-07 Global ++Antidepressants Not Recommended in Mania but Frequently Prescribed: Research Study
Deaths SSRIs/Antidepressants 2009-02-23 England & Wales ++Between 1993 & 2002 there were 4,767 Deaths On SSRIs/ Antidepressants
Death Effexor 2005-05-28 England ++Between 1993 & 2002, 118 People in England & Wales Died While on Effexor
REM Sleep Disorder SSRIs 2009-02-20 Global ++Body Does Not Become Paralyzed During REM Sleep: Allows People on SSRIs To Act Out Their Dreams
Ineffective Celexa 2009-06-01 Global ++Celexa Has No Effect on Repetitive Behaviors in Autism: Causes Many Adverse Effects
Vivid Dreams/Nightmares Cymbalta 2009-01-07 Global ++Certain Antidepressants Such As Cymbalta Have Been Associated with Nightmares
Suicide Chantix & Zoloft 2008-07-15 Global ++Chantix & Zoloft Share Similar Mechanism: Lawsuit Over Suicide on Chantix
Conflict of Interest Psychotropic Medications 2009-06-03 Global ++Creators of Psychiatric Bible, the DSM-V, Have Economic Ties with Pharma
Suicide SSRIs 2008-07-17 Global ++David Healy, M.D. Responds to WSJ Article: Doubling of Suicidal Acts on SSRIs Over Placebo
Osteoporosis SSRIs 2008-02-06 Global ++Double The Risk for Osteoporosis for Those on SSRIs
Mania/Violence/Suicide Prozac 1990-08-16 Global ++Dr. Martin Teicher: Between 1.9 to 7.7% of Prozac Users at Risk for Mania, Violence/Suicide
Crime Against Humanity SSRIs 2009-01-04 Global ++Drug Companies Kept Information Secret About SSRIs
Drug Interaction Prozac, Paxil & Zoloft 2009-06-01 Global ++Evidence Shows Antidepressants Cut Effectiveness of Tamoxifen in Breast Cancer: Medco Health
Helps Depression Exercise 2000-09-21 Global ++Exercise Better Than Antidepressants for Depression: Duke University Study
Suicides & Homicides SSRIs 2009-05-11 U.S.A. ++FDA Adverse Reaction Reports from 2004 to 2006
Serotonin Syndrome Antidepressants 2006-08-03 Global ++FDA Issues Public Health Advisory on Mixing Meds with Antidepressants
Panic Attacks, Hostility, Mania, Etc. SSRIs/Antidepressants 2004-03-22 Global ++FDA Public Health Advisory: Warning About Antidepressants: Also Withdrawal
Serotonin Syndrome SSRIs & SNRIs 2009-03-27 Global ++FDA Upgrades Warning on Serotonin Syndrome
Suicide Cymbalta 2005-07-01 Global ++FDA Warns of Higher Suicide Risk: Studies in Women Using Cymbalta for Incontinence
Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome SSRIs/SNRIs 2009-02-05 Global ++FDA Warns of Life Threatening Disease: Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome With Antidepressants
Unethical Zoloft & Cymbalta 2008-09-15 U.S.A. ++FDA Web Site on Drug Ads Developed by Drug Industry PR Firm
FDA Warning Antidepressants 2004-03-22 U.S.A. ++FDA: Depression Meds Can Cause Mania, Hypomania, Hostility, Panic Attacks, Worse Depression, Etc.
Suicides & Homicides Chantix 2007-11-28 Global ++Fifty-five Suicides Reported in One Week to FDA: Freedom of Information Act
Abnormal Behavior Prozac 2008-08-07 Global ++Fish Exposed to Prozac Exhibit Abnormal Behavior
Suicide Prozac 2008-10-14 U.S.A. ++Govt. Study: 9% More Children On Prozac Alone Were Suicidal Compared to Those on Therapy Alone
FDA Medication Guide Antidepressants 2007-08-15 U.S.A. ++Guide to Be Given by Pharmacies to All Parents/Guardians of Those Under 18
Adverse Reactions Prozac 2001-04-29 Global ++Head of World Health Organization Warns of Side Effects
Violence Antidepressants 2009-05-22 Japan ++Health Ministries Revise Warnings On Med Guides: Causal Relationship Between SSRIs & Violence
Serotonin Syndrome SSRIs & SNRIs 2008-11-09 U.S.A. ++In 2004, 103 Deaths Recorded from Serotonin Syndrome & 8,187 People Had Toxic Effects
Suicide Increase Antidepressants 2008-10-21 U.S.A. ++Increase in Both Suicide Rate & Antidepressant Use Among Middle Aged White Adults
Falls Med for Depression 2008-06-19 Global ++Increased Risk of Falls in Older People Taking Meds for Depression: Public Library of Science
Bleeding SSRIs 2009-06-01 Global ++Increases Risk of Fatal Bleeding For Those on Low Dose Continuous Aspirin
Depression & Abnormal Thoughts Prozac 2008-11-02 Global ++Lilly Removed Data on Depression & Abnormal Thoughts as Frequent Adverse Reactions:Clinical Trials
Adverse Reaction Prozac 1999-05-10 Global ++Little Difference Between the Street Drug Ecstasy & Prozac: Noted Mental Health Journalist
Diabetes SSRIs/Antidepressants 2009-04-17 Global ++Long-Term Use of Moderate to High Daily Doses of SSRIs Doubles the Risk For Diabetes: NIH
Decrease in Suicides None 2007-10-19 Maryland ++Maryland Has Seen a Decrease in Youth Suicide Since the Black Box Warning
Worsens Depression Antidepressants* 2009-05-08 Global ++Mayo Clinic Physician Believes Antidepressants Can Worsen Depression & Also Cause Mania
Infertility SSRIs 2009-06-12 Global ++Men on SSRI Antidepressants Have Reduced Fertility
Suicides Antidepressants 2009-02-05 Iraq/Afghanistan ++More Soldiers Committed Suicide in Jan. 2009 Than Died In Combat: Excessive Antidepressants Cited
Ineffective Prozac & Zoloft, etc. 2009-05-19 Global ++Most Studies of Prozac & Zoloft Were Negative But Still Approved by FDA: Book: Beyond Prozac
Turbulent Emotions/Compelling Thoughts SSRIs 2009-02-07 Global ++One in 20 People Without Depression Had Side Effects Such As Turbulent Emotions & Thoughts: Study
Homicidal Ideation Zoloft 2008-11-03 Global ++One in Sixty-six Children Aged 17 & Under Had Homicidal Ideation in this Study from the NEJM
Serotonin Toxicity Antidepressants 2008-09-01 Australia ++One in Twelve Older Men at Risk for Serotonin Toxicity by Drug Combinations
Apathy Antidepressants 2009-06-01 Global ++One of the Side-Effects of Antidepressants is Apathy: Research for DSM-V
Violence Paxil 2004-11-07 Global ++One Out of Five Paxil Users Surveyed by MIND Reported Violent Behavior
Overprescribing Antidepressants 2008-12-02 Australia ++Over 4000 Children Under 10 Years of Age,, including 48 Babies, were Prescribed SSRIs Last Year
Adverse Reactions Chantix/Champix 2009-02-05 Canada ++Over 800 Complaints to Health Canada: 520 Involved Psychiatric Problems
Homicidal Ideation Effexor 2007-05-01 Global ++Package Insert Lists Homicidal Ideation as Adverse Reaction
Adverse Effects Paxil 2004-10-03 England ++Panorama TV Investigates Paxil's Effects of Aggression, Suicide & Withdrawal Syndrome
Homicidal Thoughts Zoloft 2004-12-19 U.S.A. ++Patient in Clinical Trials for Zoloft Had Thoughts of Killing Self & Others
Hyponatremia SSRIs 2009-03-28 Global ++Patients Taking SSRIs More Likely to Have Hyponatremia & Fracture Limbs During Falls
Do Not Prescribe Zoloft 2008-11-03 Australia ++Pfizer, Zoloft's Manufacturer, Recommends Zoloft No Be Prescribed To Those Under 24 in Australia
Ineffectiveness SSRIs 2008-01-17 Global ++Pharmaceutical Companies Witheld Negative Results in Trials of SSRIs; You Tube
Hypertension & Preeclampsia SSRIs 2009-03-02 Global ++Pregnant Woman Who Use SSRIs Have 4 X the Rate of Hypertension & 2 X the Rate of Preeclampsia
Sleep Problems SSRIs 2009-02-16 Global ++Prepubescent Children Who Take Antidepressants Are Susceptible to Sleep Problems Thoughout Life:
Ineffective For Autism Prozac 2009-02-24 Global ++Prozac Is Ineffective For Autism: Clinical Trials
Uncontrolled Actions Antidepressants 1995-04-05 Global ++Psychopharmacologist at McLean: Antidepressants Involving Mania Can Cause Uncontrollable Actions
Unethical Zoloft 2008-05-23 Global ++PTSD Alliance Group Is the Creation of a Public Relations Firm Working for Pfizer
Anxiety/Panic Attacks SSRIs 2000-05-14 Global ++Research: Serotonin Levels 8 Times Higher Than Normal in Unmedicated Anxious People
Suicide SSRIs 2008-05-05 Iraq/U.S.A. ++Soldiers Have More Post War SuicidesThan Combat Deaths in Iraq & Afghanistan
Crime Against Humanity Chantix 2008-06-17 U.S.A. ++Soldiers with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Recruited to Test Drug the FDA Says Causes Suicide
Homicides SSRIs 2007-11-20 Global ++SSRIs & Homicide: The New York Review of Books
Suicide SSRIs* 2006-10-16 Global ++SSRIs Can Increase the Number of Serotonin Receptors Linked to Suicide
Weight Gain SSRIs/Antidepressants 2009-02-18 Global ++SSRIs Cause Weight Lose At the Beginning of Use But Weight Gain After Continuous use
Ineffective SSRIs 2009-01-26 Global ++SSRIs Ineffective For Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder: Meta-analyses
Effectiveness Questioned SSRIs & SNRIs 2007-11-25 Global ++SSRIs Only Have a 10% Effective Rate Over Placebo and the 10% Is Suspect
Mania St. Johns Wort 2009-02-18 Global ++St. Johns Wort Can Cause Mania In People With So Called Bipolar Disorder
Adverse Reactions Prozac 1991-11-05 Colorado ++State Dept. of Health Reports Prozac Had More Adverse Reactions Reported Than Any Other Drug
Crime Against Humanity Antidepressants 2007-09-17 U.S.A. ++Statistics on Suicides Among the Young Have Been "Manipulated": 1st Article
Crime Against Humanity Antidepressants 2007-09-17 U.S.A. ++Statistics on Suicides Among the Young Have Been "Manipulated": 2nd article
Crime Against Humanity Antidepressants 2007-09-17 U.S.A. ++Statistics on Suicides Among the Young Have Been "Manipulated": 3rd Article
Crime Against Humanity Antidepressants 2007-09-17 U.S.A. ++Statistics on Suicides Among the Young Have Been "Manipulated": 4th Article
Suicide Rates Decline SSRIs 2007-12-04 U.S.A. ++Statistics: As SSRI Use Declined Among Youth Between 2004 & 2005, Suicide Rates Declined: AJP
Diabetes Antidepressants 2008-03-13 Global ++Study Shows Increased Risk of Diabetes with Antidepressant Use
Violence SSRIs 2001-05-11 Global ++Study: Excess of Serotonin in Brain Causes Violence
Suicide Rate Antidepressants 2008-09-06 U.S.A. ++Suicide Rate Among Teens Declines as Antidepressant Use Among Teens Slows
Suicide Rates Antidepressants 2008-04-14 Denmark ++Suicide Rates Were Five to Six Times Higher Among those Taking SSRIs Than Those Who Were Not
Suicides Antidepressants 2009-01-12 Global ++Suicide Risk Higher for First 12 Weeks Following Antidepressant Start: J of Affective Disorders
Treatment-Emergent Mania Antidepressants 2009-02-12 Global ++TEM Caused by SSRIs Can Lead to Damaging Behaviors, Arrest & Incarceration
Sexual Dysfunction SSRIs 2008-12-15 Global ++Thirty- Ffity % of Those on SSRIs Have Sexual Dysfunction: Some May Not Recover After Withdrawing
Kleptomania Med For Depression 2009-05-04 Global ++Three-Fourths of Kleptomaniacs Were on Depression Meds at Time of Thefts: U. Of Minnesota Study
Stock Market Crash Prozac 2003-05-28 U.S.A./Global ++Trader Becomes Hypomanic on Medication
Stock Market Crash Antidepressants 2008-10-08 U.S.A./Global ++Traders on Antidepressants May Have Contributed to the Financial Crisis: Journalist Adam Hanft
Stock Market Crash SSRIs 2008-03-26 U.S.A./Global ++Traders on Wall Street Admit to Antidepressant Use
Suicide Risk Antidepressants 2008-09-01 Europe ++Update From European & Irish Agencies on Suicide Risk in Young Adults
Side-Effects List Paxil, Effexor & Imipramine 2009-04-09 Global ++Warning on Side-Effects of Antidepressants: British Medical Journal Publishing
Seizures Wellbutrin 2008-08-19 Global ++Wellbutrin Alone Produced Seizures in Mice: Larger Effect When Alcohol Was Added
Birth Defects Prozac & Paxil 2008-11-24 U.S.A. ++Women Who Took Prozac & Paxil During Pregnancy Had 3 to 4 Times As Many Babies With Birth Defects
Maladaptive Behaviors SSRIs 2007-07-07 Global ++Young Mice Given SSRIs Have Maladaptive Behaviors in Adulthood
Adverse Reaction Prozac* 1995-12-10 Colorado +10 Year Old Boy Becomes Like Someone on Heroin, According to Psychologist
Murder Prozac 2004-08-31 Texas +10 Year Old Kills his Father, Who Is a Physician
Murder Zoloft* 2001-11-28 South Carolina +12 Year Old Kills His Grandparents
Suicide Paxil 2005-04-09 Virginia +14 Year Old Girl Kills Self: Made into TV Show
Murder Prozac 1994-10-23 Iowa +14 Year Old Girl Stabs Great Aunt: Given Life in Prison
Murder Zoloft 2004-05-03 Montana +14 Year Old Murders his Mother & 10 Year Old Brother
Violence Zoloft* 2004-09-12 Colorado +15 Year Old Girl 'Knife Attacks' Mother
Murder Paxil WITHDRAWAL 2002-11-14 Texas +15 Year Old Girl Kills 6 Year Old Brother
Murder Paxil 2008-05-26 Texas +15 Year Old Girl Kills Grandmother 13 Years Ago: Life Sentence
Murder Wellbutrin 2000-03-11 Massachusetts +16 Year Old Girl Kills her Mother, a Psychiatrist
Murder Zoloft* 2005-03-06 Idaho +16 Year Old Girl Kills her Parents: Court TV
Murder Med For Depression 1994-09-09 Kansas +16 Year Old Kills his Mother & Sister: No Illegal Drugs or Alcohol
Murder Prozac 2006-11-26 Maryland +16 Year Old PATIENT in Mental Hospital Kills Nurse: Gets Life Without Possibility of Parole
Suicide Attempt Prozac & Zoloft 2001-07-01 Oregon +17 Year Old Attempts Suicide: Lawsuit Won
Murder Prozac 2004-01-12 Michigan +17 Year Old Kills his Two Sisters & his Mother: No Illegal Drugs or Alcohol
Suicide Cymbalta Antidepressant WITHDRAWAL 2004-02-10 Indiana +19 Year Old Healthy, Normal Woman Kills Self During Clinical Trial
Murder-Suicide Prozac 1994-06-05 New Jersey +77 Year Old Woman Stabs Husband 35 Times & Stabs Self 50 Times
Anthrax Murders Celexa 2008-08-08 U.S.A. +Anthrax Suspect Took Celexa First: Became Psychotic.: Psychosis is Listed as an Adverse Reaction
Murder-Suicide Paxil* 1997-04-14 California +Asian: Father Drowns Two Children: Kills Self: Lawsuit
Murder Antidepressant 2004-07-25 England +Britain's Most Wanted Man
Murder-Suicide Zoloft 1998-05-28 California +Comedian Phil Hartman Shot in his Sleep by Wife, Brynn: She Then Kills Self
Assault & DWI Lexapro 2003-11-27 Arizona +Country Singer Arrested
Murder-Suicide Antidepressants 2001-08-06 Nepal +Crown Prince of Nepal Kills 9 Family Members & Self
Murder Prozac 1991-11-06 California +Daughter, A College Professor, Bites her 87 Year Old Mother to Death
Road Rage Mania Prozac* 2001-03-29 Paris, France +Dr. Discusses the Driver [Henri Paul] of Princess Diana
Shoplifting Zoloft 2001-12-15 California +Famous Actress, Winona Ryder, Arrested for Shoplifting
Suicide Prozac 1997-10-15 California +Famous Author's Son Commits Suicide
Murder Paxil WITHDRAWAL: Prozac* 2006-01-20 North Carolina +Father Murders 5 Year Old Twin Daughters: Featured on Oprah Winfrey Show
Murder Paxil 2008-05-25 Canada +Father Who Murdered Son Four Years Ago Campaigns Against SSRIs
Workplace Violence/Murder-Suicide Luvox 1998-03-06 Connecticut +Five Dead: State Lottery Business Office
Nervous Breakdown Antidepressant 2003-07-24 California +Football Player Misses Superbowl
Violence Antidepressant WITHDRAWAL 2008-01-31 England +Man Attacks Woman with Machete: Given Reduced Sentence Because of Withdrawal
Murder Paxil 2003-07-24 New York +Man Shoots NY City Councilman in City Council Chambers
Stabbing Prozac* 1992-06-11 Florida +Man Stabs Wife: Physician Testifies Prozac Was Main Cause
Mania Prozac 2008-10-06 Canada +Margaret Trudeau Becomes Manic on Prozac: Is Now Off All Antidepressants
Workplace Violence/Murder-Suicide Prozac 1989-09-14 Kentucky +Nine Dead: 12 Wounded: Standard Gravure Printing Company
Murder Prozac 2006-11-26 California +O. J. Simpson on Double Dose of Prozac at Time of Murders
Bizarre Behavior Paxil & Prozac 2008-01-12 California +Pop Star Britney Spears Exhibits Bizarre Behavior on Paxil
Murder Effexor* 2006-07-10 Texas +Postpartum Depression: Andrea Yates Retried for Murder of Five Children
Murder Zoloft 2006-01-12 New Mexico +Sam Donaldson's Ranch Manager's 14 Year Old Son Murders his Parents & Sister
Workplace Violence/Murder Prozac* 2000-12-26 Massachusetts +Seven dead at Edgewater Technology Computer Company
Workplace Violence/Murder-Suicide Zoloft & Celexa 2003-07-10 Mississippi +Six Dead: Lockheed Martin
Death Paxil/Seroquel & Benzo 2008-06-08 U.S.A. +Soldiers [Twelve] Die in Sleep from PTSD Meds As Uncovered by the Father of One of the Soldiers
Affair With Minor Antidepressants 2007-12-10 Canada +Woman School Teacher Accused of Affair with 13 Year Old Male Student
Affair With Minor Prozac 2001-09-01 Utah +Woman School Teacher Gets Jail for Sexual Abuse of 16 Year Old Boy
Affair With Minor Med For Depression 2008-07-17 Wisconsin +Woman School Teacher Has Affair with 13 Year Old Boy
Affair With Minor Paxil/Wellbutrin 2004-12-03 Florida +Woman School Teacher Has Affair with 14 Year Old Boy
Affair With Minor Antidepressants 2007-12-11 New York +Woman School Teacher Has Affair with 15 Year Old Male Student
Affair With Minor Celexa 2009-04-23 New York +Woman School Teacher Molests 13 Year Old Male Student
Affair With Minor Antidepressants 2009-02-06 Texas +Woman School Teacher, 42, Molests her 10th Grade Male Student in a Classrom After School Hours
Affair With Minor Prozac/Wellbutrin 2006-06-22 New Hampshire +Woman SchoolTeacher Has Affair with 16 Year Old Boy
Affairs with Minors Prozac 2006-03-24 West Virginia +Woman SchoolTeacher Molests Four Students Under 15
Murder Paxil 1999-10-16 California +Woman Serial Killer was on Paxil at Time of Murders
Murder Antidepressant* 2002-09-21 Tennessee +Woman Stabs Man Over 100 Times
Affairs With Minors SSRIs 2009-04-18 Idaho/Global +Women Molest Minors: SSRIs: More Mania: More Bipolar: More Women Become Pedophiles
Murder Paxil 2003-05-22 Pennsylvania +Young Woman Murders Two People: Made into TV Show
Death Bipolar Meds 2009-06-07 Kansas 3 Year Old Girl Dies from High Dosages of Bipolar Meds
Death Bipolar Meds 2007-02-08 Massachusetts 4 Year Old Girl Dies From Overdose of Meds
Behavioral Change Prozac 2006-07-07 Connecticut 5 year Old Goes from Anxious to Angry
Overdose Remeron Antidepressant & Others 2006-08-06 Washington 6 Year Old Dies on Psych Cocktail
Inappropriate Behaviors Antidepressants 2005-04-13 U.S.A. 6 Year Old With Selective Mutism Exhibits Bad Behavior in Kindergarten: Is OK When Med Is Stopped
Suicide Prozac & Zyprexa 2009-04-22 Florida 7 Year Old Boy Hangs Himself
Death Antidepressant 2007-11-28 Oregon 7 Year Old In Foster Care Dies From Poweful Antidepressant
Tantrums Prozac 2007-11-24 Michigan 8 Year Old Asperger's Patient Misdiagnosed With Depression: Becomes Worse on Prozac
Behavioral Change Luvox, Ritalin, etc. 2006-01-29 Illinois 8 Year Old Becomes Zombie
Death Prozac 1995-02-15 Pennsylvania 9 Year Old Boy Dies From Prozac Toxicity
Suicide Attempt & Rages Paxil 2002-03-18 Pennsylvania 9 Year Old Girl Becomes Worse on Meds
Arson/Murder Attempt Med For Depression 2002-01-03 Ohio 10 & 11 Year Old Boy & Girl Attempt Arson & Murder
Violent Behavior Prozac WITHDRAWAL 2006-06-14 England 10 Year Old Becomes Violent
Suicide Effexor 2002-08-14 Texas 10 Year Old Boy Hangs Himself
Suicide Med for Depression 2005-10-24 South Africa 10 Year Old Boy Hangs Himself
Suicide Attempt Antidepressant 2004-10-12 Illinois 10 Year Old Girl Attempts Suicide
Death Effexor/Psychotropics 2001-04-04 Colorado 10 Year Old Girl Dies During "Rebirthing" Therapy: Meds May Have Been a Factor
Assault/Gun Prozac 1996-03-09 Florida 10 Year Old Uses 3 Year Old Niece as Shield: Aims Gun at Sheriff's Deputy
Violence Prozac 2000-02-27 Pennsylvania 11 Year Old Becomes Violent & Aggressive on Prozac & Ritalin
Suicide Effexor & Zoloft 2008-09-20 U.S.A. 11 Year Old Boy Hangs Self in 2002: Reported In the Book Medication Madness
Violence & Suicide Attempt Paxil 1999-01-05 Michigan 11 Year Old Boy is Violent & Suicidal on Paxil
Suicide Lexapro 2006-07-26 Utah 11 Year Old Girl Hangs Self; Family Sues
Robbery/Shooting Paxil 1996-02-28 New York 11 Year Old Goes On Robbery & Shooting Spree
Suicide Prozac 1997-09-13 Louisiana 11 Year Old Hangs Himself
Suicide Effexor & Zoloft* 2004-10-06 Nebraska 11 Year Old Hangs Himself: Lawsuit
Suicidal Behavior Antidepressants 2007-12-26 Arizona 12 Year Old Boy Recovers After Doctors Take Him Off Antidepressants
Suicide Zoloft 2004-01-15 Virginia 12 Year Old Girl Commits Suicide
Suicide Zoloft 2000-01-05 Texas 12 Year Old Girl Commits Suicide
Suicide Paxil 2004-02-09 Idaho 12 Year Old Girl Commits Suicide
Suicide Attempt & Self-Mutilation Prozac & Zoloft 1988-01-15 Washington DC 12 Year Old Girl Given Meds Deteriorates
Homicidal Ideation Prozac & Paxil 2000-04-18 U.S.A. 12 Year Old Girl Plots to Kill her Mother
Suicide Attempt Med for Depression 2004-08-09 Maine 12 Year Old Girl Self-Mutilates & Attempts Suicide
Murder Zoloft 2006-08-11 Arkansas 12 Year Old Kills 11 Year Old Sister
Suicide Med For Depression 2008-01-15 Missouri 12 Year Old Kills Self: On Both Antidepressants & ADHD Med
Child Suicide Prozac 2006-03-01 Michigan 12 Year Old Shoots Himself
Cure Exercise Program 2008-04-19 Australia 12 Year Old With Depression & Suicidal Thoughts is Cured with Exercise-Based Therapy Program
Injury to Child Paxil 2002-09-24 New York 12-Year-Old Driven Insane By Medicine
Murder Attempt Med For Depression 1993-04-16 Iowa 13 & 14 Year Olds Attempt to Kill Police Officer: 26 Mile Chase
Mania Antidepressants 2007-09-05 Texas 13 Year Old Becomes "Bipolar" after Antidepressant Use
Suicide Zoloft 1997-07-28 Kansas 13 Year Old Boy Commits Suicide
Suicide Attempt Zoloft 2003-09-17 Arizona 13 Year Old Boy Intends to Commit Suicide at School
Violence Med for Depression 2005-07-12 New York 13 Year Old Girl Attacks Police: Child is Critically Injured
Suicide Med For Depression 2007-03-15 Georgia 13 Year Old Girl Commits Suicide
Suicide Lexapro 2005-04-02 Georgia 13 Year Old Hangs Himself
Murder Antidepressants* 2008-04-18 Colorado 13 Year Old Killed Mother & Grandmother in 1999: Is Released From Prison: Now Has Adult Sentence
Murder Prozac 2006-03-24 Washington 13 Year Old Kills Grandmother
Suicide Antidepressants 1998-03-26 California 13 Year Old Kills Himself
Suicide Paxil 2008-02-03 California 13 Year Old Kills Self: Lawsuit: Dismissed Because of State Law
Suicide Prozac 2000-06-02 Utah 14 Year Old Boy Commits Suicide
Murder Med For Depression Withdrawal 2009-03-04 California 14 Year Old Boy Fires Into Crowd: One Man Killed: Five Day Withdrawal
Violence Antidepressant 2008-02-07 Massachusetts 14 Year Old Boy Stabs Police Officer in Chest
Murder Antidepressant 2005-04-09 Virginia 14 Year Old Boy Stabs Store Clerk
Suicide Paxil 2007-06-13 Indiana 14 Year Old Commits Suicide: Lawsuit
Suicide Attempt Paxil 2001-05-15 New Jersey 14 Year Old Girl Attempts Suicide
Suicide Attempt Zoloft 2008-09-19 Australia 14 Year Old Girl Attempts Suicide: Possible Lawsuit
Murder Attempt Zoloft 1999-09-29 Florida 14 Year Old Girl Attempts to Kill Mother
Injury to Child Paxil 2003-04-06 New Jersey 14 Year Old Girl Becomes Suicidal & Violent : Lawsuit
Arson/Death Antidepressants 1996-12-15 Indiana 14 Year Old Girl Burns Down Her House: Mother & Sister Die
Suicide Celexa/SSRIs 2002-06-07 U.S.A. 14 Year Old Girl Commits Suicide
Suicide Prozac 2000-10-31 Arizona 14 Year Old Girl Commits Suicide
Suicide Prozac 2007-02-06 Canada 14 Year Old Girl Commits Suicide
Suicide Lexapro 2008-07-12 Missouri 14 Year Old Girl Commits Suicide While On Lexapro
Suicide Lexapro 2009-04-13 New York 14 Year Old Girl Commits Suicide: Fund for Funeral Expenses Announced
Self-Mutilation/Cutting Med For Depression 2009-02-18 Pennsylvania 14 Year Old Girl Deliberately Harms Herself
Self-Mutilation Antidepressant 2007-06-06 Illinois 14 Year Old Girl Has Increase in Self-Mutilation While On Antidepressant
Suicide Effexor 2004-09-27 California 14 Year Old Girl Kill Self: Took 4 SSRIs in One Year
Murder Antidepressant 2006-09-14 Oregon 14 Year Old Girl Kills Friend of Same Age
Suicide Prozac 2005-09-27 Canada 14 Year Old Girl Kills Self
Suicide Med For Depression 2007-11-12 Missouri 14 Year Old Girl Kills Self
Suicide Prozac 2009-06-08 Connecticut 14 Year Old Girl Kills Self: Happened in 2005: Lawsuit in 2009
Arson Antidepressant* 2004-12-04 Ohio 14 Year Old Girl Sets Fires
Suicidal Behavior Effexor 2005-08-05 Virginia 14 Year Old Girl Suffers Adverse Reaction
Suicide Prozac 2000-12-05 Alabama 14 Year Old Hangs Himself
Suicide Zoloft & Paxil 1995-04-09 New Jersey 14 Year Old Kills Himself
Suicide Zoloft 1997-04-21 Florida 14 Year Old Kills Himself
Murder Paxil 1995-03-11 Illinois 14 Year Old Kills his Mother
Suicide Zoloft & Effexor 2005-07-07 California 14 Year Old Kills Self
Murder Zoloft & ADHD Drug 1997-09-02 Michigan 14 Year Old Kills Woman During Robbery: Life Sentence
Shooting Effexor & Seroquel 2007-10-31 Tennessee 14 Year Old Shoots at Store Clerk
Knife Attack Med For Depression 2008-08-04 Tennessee 14 Year Old Stabs his Parents: They Are Hospitalized in Serious Condition
Suicide Attempt Antidepressants 2005-01-06 Massachusetts 15 & 17 Year Old Brothers Attempt Suicide
Assault Antidepressant 2007-05-03 England 15 Year Old Assaults Police: Also Involved Alcohol
Suicide Attempt Antidepressants 2006-01-25 Arkansas 15 Year Old Attempts Suicide at School
Suicide Attempt Med For Depression 2007-08-28 Pennsylvania 15 Year Old Attempts Suicide: Tries to Jump from Bridge
Murder Attempt-Suicide Antidepressant WITHDRAWAL 2005-05-16 Nebraska 15 Year Old Attempts to Kill Father: Kills Self
Assault Zoloft, Straterra & Risperdal 2005-01-25 New York 15 Year Old Boy Assaults Neighbor Girl
Suicide Antidepressant 2008-07-30 North Carolina 15 Year Old Boy Commits Suicide
Suicide Zoloft 2003-12-17 Texas 15 Year Old Boy Commits Suicide on Zoloft
Death Antidepressants 2008-12-18 Australia 15 Year Old Boy in Three Day Withdrawal Killed by Police When Boy Became Violent
Homicidal Thoughts Zoloft, Paxil & Effexor 2004-02-02 Georgia 15 Year Old Boy Injured by Meds
Murder Paxil 1997-10-31 New Jersey 15 Year Old Boy Kills 11 Year Old Boy Who Was Selling Cookies Door-To-Door
Murder Med for Depression 1999-08-25 Illinois 15 Year Old Boy Kills Father: Injures Mother
Murder Prozac* 2009-01-28 England 15 Year Old Boy Murders Man: Trial Is In Progress
Murder Zoloft 1997-05-22 New York 15 Year Old Commits Murder in Central Park
Suicide Antidepressants 1998-10-27 North Carolina 15 Year Old Commits Suicide
Suicide Zoloft 1997-03-20 Florida 15 Year Old Commits Suicide
Suicide Attempt Prozac 1995-02-22 Florida 15 Year Old Deliberately Drives Car into House
Death Antidepressant 2009-04-11 Michigan 15 Year Old Dies From One Taser Shock
Suicide Zoloft 1996-05-19 Missouri 15 Year Old Girl Commits Suicide
Suicide Med For Depression 2007-05-05 Colorado 15 Year Old Girl Commits Suicide
Suicide Antidepressants 2006-07-21 England 15 Year Old Girl Dies from Overdose
Suicide Zoloft 2004-10-24 Utah 15 Year Old Girl Given Zoloft for 'Warts'
Suicide Zoloft & Accutane 2004-10-28 Australia 15 Year Old Girl Hang Self
Suicide Prozac 1996-07-12 California 15 Year Old Girl Jumps Off Cliff with 14 Year Old Girl
Suicide Prozac 2001-04-15 Idaho 15 Year Old Girl Kills Self
Murder Plans Paxil 2004-09-12 Florida 15 Year Old Girl Plans to Kill Mother, Brother & Self
Self-Mutilation Prozac, Zoloft & Paxil 1997-10-19 Massachusetts 15 Year Old Girl Self-Mutilates
Murder Prozac 2000-11-30 North Carolina 15 Year Old Girl Shoots Grandfather
Murder Cymbalta Antidepressant 2009-06-01 Maryland 15 Year Old Girl Solicits her Father's Murder
Suicide Attempt Prozac 2006-03-26 Georgia 15 Year Old Girl Tries to Hang Self
Suicide Prozac 2006-03-26 Texas 15 Year Old Hangs Himself
Suicide Med For Depression 2009-04-27 Georgia 15 Year Old Kills Himself in the Year 2000: Mother Now Helping Other Survivors
Murder Paxil 2000-04-18 Tennessee 15 Year Old Kills his Father
Suicide Antidepressant 2005-06-16 Nebraska 15 Year Old Kills Self
Murder Effexor 2006-06-29 Virginia 15 Year Old Kills Store Clerk
Murder Zoloft 2003-01-19 Florida 15 Year Old Murders His Uncle
Arson Prozac 1999-03-10 Florida 15 Year Old Sets Fires
Suicide Prozac 1992-01-11 Florida 15 Year Old Shoots Self
Suicide Prozac 1999-05-02 California 15 Year Old Shoots Self
Murder Paxil 2000-03-06 California 15 Year Old Stabs his Grandmother
Unlawful Possession of Gun Zoloft 2008-01-09 Tennessee 15 Year Old Student Brings Gun to School: Other Charges Expected
Arson & Vandalism Paxil 2002-04-13 Michigan 15-year-old Sets Fire & Vandalizes School
Mania & Violence Antidepressants 2008-09-20 Rhode Island 16 Year Old Becomes Worse on Antidepressant: Finally Diagnosed as Bipolar As They All Are
Road Rage Antidepressant 2004-11-09 Minnesota 16 Year Old Boy Causes $45,000 in Damages
Murder-Suicide Antidepressant 2004-03-17 Tennessee 16 Year Old Boy Kills Deputy Sheriff & Himself
Arson Paxil 2008-03-06 Texas 16 Year Old Burns Down High School
Suicide Zoloft 2004-12-31 U.S.A. 16 Year Old Commits Suicide
Suicide Lexapro & Steroids 2004-07-21 Texas 16 Year Old Commits Suicide
Suicide Attempt Zoloft 2009-02-25 Iowa 16 Year Old Girl Attempts Suicide
Suicide Attempt Zoloft 2008-03-19 Australia 16 Year Old Girl Attempts Suicide: Civil Trial Against Doctor Begins
Murder Paxil 2005-01-11 England 16 Year Old Girl Commits Murder: Kills Self in Prison
Suicide Antidepressants 2009-05-25 Ireland 16 Year Old Girl Commits Suicide in 2006: Had Spent Time in Foster Care
Suicide Antidepressant 2008-07-16 California 16 Year Old Girl Commits Suicide: RCC Scholarship Set Up
Suicide by Cop Prozac 1996-11-21 Washington DC 16 Year Old Girl Forces Police to Shoot Her
Missing Teen: 'Amber Alert' Med for Depression 2004-08-19 Indiana 16 Year Old Girl Found Safe & Sound
Suicide Zoloft 2004-02-21 Massachusetts 16 Year Old Girl Hangs Herself
Suicide Antidepressant 2006-09-14 Utah 16 Year Old Girl Hangs Self: Lawsuit
Murder Prozac 2004-05-28 Arkansas 16 Year Old Girl Kills her Father
Suicide Zoloft 2003-03-03 New Jersey 16 Year Old Girl Kills Self
Suicide Prozac & Desipramine 2005-08-12 Washington 16 Year Old Girl Kills Self
Suicide Prozac & Adderall 2008-01-13 New York 16 Year Old Girl Kills Self
Suicide Effexor 2005-04-13 Florida 16 Year Old Girl Kills Self: Documentary On Meds for Kids
Suicide Attempt & Self-Mutilation Paxil 2005-01-16 Texas 16 Year Old Girl Self Mutilates: Also Attempts Suicide
Suicide Lexapro 2008-01-05 Washington 16 Year Old Girl Shoots Self: Lawsuit
Bizarre Behavior Med For Depression 2007-06-07 U.S.A. 16 Year Old Girl Writes the Word "Die" on Wall Using Her Blood
Suicide Celexa* 2005-07-13 Canada 16 Year Old Girl: Coroner's Inquest
Suicide Zoloft 2004-12-01 Kentucky 16 Year Old Girl: Permanent Injuries: Lawsuit
Suicide Celexa 2004-07-25 Florida 16 Year Old Hangs Himself
Inappropriate Behavior Antidepressants 2004-11-13 Texas 16 Year Old Improves When Taken Off All Meds For Depression & Other Psychotropics
Suicide Attempt Zoloft 2000-05-31 Tennessee 16 Year Old In Private Detetion Facility Suffers Permanent Brain Damage in Suicide Attempt
Suicide Prozac 1999-06-15 South Carolina 16 Year Old Kills Himself: Lawsuit
Murder Paxil 2005-03-02 California 16 Year Old Kills his 17 Year Old Brother
Murder Antidepressants 2004-09-30 Pennsylvania 16 Year Old Kills his Mother
Murder Med For Depression 2000-06-20 Louisiana 16 Year Old Kills his Neighbor
Murder-Suicide Antidepressants 2004-09-29 California 16 Year Old Kills Neighbor & Himself
Suicide Paxil & Accutane 2005-05-16 Nebraska 16 Year Old Kills Self
Suicide Zoloft 2001-07-22 Virginia 16 Year Old Kills Self on Zoloft
Suicide Straterra 2008-04-06 Massachusetts 16 Year Old Kills Self Unexpectedly After Starting Straterra for ADHD
Suicide [Lawsuit] Paxil 2008-09-06 Pennsylvania 16 Year Old Kills Self: Judge Strikes Down Pre-Emption Ruling: Lawsuit Moves Forward
Murder Med For Depression 2007-09-05 Virginia 16 Year Old Kills Sister: Attacks Niece
Murder-Suicide Wellbutrin 2004-01-31 Iowa 16 Year Old Kills the Housesitter, His Counselor & Himself
Suicide Antidepressants 1997-06-22 North Carolina 16 Year Old On Antidepressants Kills Self 17 Days After Leaving Hospital
Suicide Attempt Med For Depression 2008-09-10 Australia 16 Year Old Overdoses: Had Heart Attack: Exhibited Bizarre Behavior while on Med
Suicide Paxil WITHDRAWAL* 2005-02-01 Canada 16 Year Old: Paxil Still in Body 2 Months After Discontinuing Drug
Murder Attempt Paxil 2002-07-05 Canada 16-year-old Attacks A Family
Arson Antidepressant 2005-06-29 Tennessee 17 Year Old Accepts Responsibility for Fire
Suicide Attempt Prozac 2005-12-17 Illinois 17 Year Old and Family Sue Lilly
Suicide Attempt Prozac 2005-01-12 New Hampshire 17 Year Old Attempts Suicide
Suicide Attempt Prozac 2006-06-14 New York 17 Year Old Attempts Suicide in Clinical Trial
Murder Zoloft 1997-03-16 Alabama 17 Year Old Commits Murder: Life Sentence
Suicide Antidepressant 2003-01-31 Oregon 17 Year Old Commits Suicide
Suicide Antidepressants 2000-07-30 Florida 17 Year Old Commits Suicide
Suicide Zoloft & Celexa 2003-02-27 Kansas 17 Year Old Commits Suicide on the Internet
Psychosis Antidepressants 2007-05-22 U.S.A. 17 Year Old Driven Crazy by Psych Meds
Suicide Attempt Prozac 1994-01-11 Texas 17 Year Old Girl Attempts Suicide: Joins Group to Petition for Prozac Warning
Suicide Zoloft 2003-07-22 Pennsylvania 17 Year Old Girl Commits Suicide
Suicide Antidepressants 2002-05-22 California 17 Year Old Girl Commits Suicide: Was Suspect in Murder Case
Self-Mutilation & Rage Paxil & Zoloft 2002-12-15 U.S.A. 17 Year Old Girl Exhibits Bizzare Behavior on Meds
Suicide Antidepressants 2006-10-27 England 17 Year Old Girl Hangs Self
Murder Med For Depression Withdrawal 2009-03-10 North Carolina 17 Year Old Girl Kills her Mother
Suicide Lexapro 2004-11-01 Wisconsin 17 Year Old Girl Kills Self
Suicide Med For Depression 2008-06-08 Arizona 17 Year Old Girl Kills Self
Suicide Antidepressant 2008-03-31 Illinois 17 Year Old Girl Kills Self After Restarting Antidepressant
Murder Antidepressant 1996-05-11 Texas 17 Year Old Girl Murders Her Father
Running Away Prozac Withdrawal 2008-10-20 New Hampshire 17 Year Old Girl Runs Away From Home: 2n Time This Happened During a Recent Prozac Withdrawal
Murder-Suicide Attempt Prozac 2007-03-18 Nevada 17 Year Old Girl Shoots Step-Mother
Suicide Wellbutrin 2006-06-14 Indiana 17 Year Old Goes Crazy and Dies
Suicide Lexapro 2003-04-16 New York 17 Year Old Hangs Himself
Suicide Antidepressants 2008-04-04 England 17 Year Old Hangs Himself
Suicide Antidepressants 2008-09-29 Illinois 17 Year Old Hangs Himself
Car Crash Zoloft 2004-02-25 New York 17 Year Old Has Car Crash: Kills Teammate
Suicide Antidepressant 2008-11-02 Colorado 17 Year Old Inmate Has Antidepressants Constantly Switched: Hangs Self
Suicide Paxil 1999-04-01 Utah 17 Year Old Jumps From Freeway Bridge
Suicide Effexor 2000-10-31 Arizona 17 Year Old Jumps In Front Of Train
Murder Wellbutrin Withdrawal 2005-02-16 Colorado 17 Year Old Kills Father: Had Plotted to Kill Parents
Suicide Antidepressants 2005-07-18 Wisconsin 17 Year Old Kills Himself
Suicide Prozac 2004-07-30 Utah 17 Year Old Kills Self
Suicide Prozac 2004-02-26 California 17 Year Old Kills Self in Youth Facility
Suicide Prozac 2008-03-30 New Zealand 17 Year Old Kills Self: Mother Marches For Awareness
Murder Prozac 1999-07-27 Michigan 17 Year Old Murders Driver of Van
Murder Med For Depression 2001-05-18 Florida 17 Year Old Murders her Baby
Murder Paxil* 2002-03-28 Texas 17 Year Old Murders His Friend
Murder Antidepressant WITHDRAWAL 2005-07-02 Washington 17 Year Old Murders School Tennis Coach
Robbery Lexapro 2007-09-23 Oregon 17 Year Old Robs Store with Unloaded Gun
Suicide Prozac 1997-01-03 Montana 17 Year Old Shoots Himself
Murder Med for Depression 2003-02-03 Colorado 17 Year Old Stabs 91 Year Old Former Mayor
Suicidal Thoughts Prozac 2009-06-14 U.S.A. 17 Year Old Starts on Prozac: Then Has Suicidal Thoughts: Peoples Pharmacy
Suicide Med For Depression 2008-03-20 Minnesota 17 Year Old Swim Star Hangs Himself
Suicide Attempt Prozac 2006-01-29 Illinois 17 Year Old Tries to Hang Self
Missing Med For Depression 2008-06-04 Minnesota 17 Year Old's Personality Changed on Med: Massive Search of Mississippi River
Murder Attempt Antidepressants 2002-05-21 Nevada 17-Year-Old Attacks Two Muslim Men
Suicide Prozac* 1994-06-05 Washington 18 Year Old Asphyxiates Himself
Suicide Attempt Antidepressant 2008-01-20 Pennsylvania 18 Year Old Attempts Suicide: Jumps 9 Stories From Building
Suicide Paxil 2004-11-07 England 18 Year Old Begins Self-Mutilation on Paxil: Kills Self
Death Antidepressants 2008-04-21 Canada 18 Year Old Coed Found Dead: Probable Suicide
Murder Prozac 2007-09-13 Alabama 18 Year Old Girl Asks Boyfriend to Kill Another Man
Suicide Med for Depression 2004-11-24 Virginia 18 Year Old Girl Commits Suicide
Suicide Antidepressant 2008-01-20 Scotland 18 Year Old Girl Commits Suicide: Internet Partly Blamed
Death Zoloft 2008-11-05 England 18 Year Old Girl Dies from Anorexia She Developed on Zoloft
Suicide Paxil 2006-03-17 England 18 Year Old Girl Dies; Mother Campaigns
Self-Mutilation Antidepressants 2008-03-03 Wales 18 Year Old Girl Engages in "Cutting" While on Antidepressants
Assault Antidepressant 2008-10-22 England 18 Year Old Girl Injures her Boyfriend in an Assault
Murder-Suicide Prozac 1998-01-06 Texas 18 Year Old Girl Kills Boyfriend & Self
Suicide Lexapro 2007-05-08 Texas 18 Year Old Girl Kills Self: Lawsuit Could Be Decisive
Death Zoloft 2004-11-21 Wisconsin 18 Year Old Goes Berserk: Shot by Police
Suicide Prozac 2000-01-06 Hawaii 18 Year Old Hangs Himself
Suicide Med for Depression 2005-10-08 New York 18 Year Old Hangs Himself
Suicide Zoloft/Strattera 2006-03-17 California 18 Year Old Hangs Self in Hospital
Felony/Thoughts of Murder Antidepressants 2008-08-29 Minnesota 18 Year Old Heart Transplant Patient Commits Felonies & Has Thoughts of Murder
Murder Prozac* 2009-03-08 Pennsylvania 18 Year Old Imprisoned for Murder of Father Has New Evidence Against Prozac
Suicide Lexapro 2003-07-23 Virginia 18 Year Old Jumps to his Death
Death-By-Cop Prozac 2001-10-09 California 18 Year Old Killed by Policeman Forced to Shoot
Murder Wellbutrin 1998-12-02 Michigan 18 Year Old Kills 5 Family Members
Murder-Suicide Antidepressant 2006-07-18 Ohio 18 Year Old Kills Girlfriend, Then Self
Suicide Effexor & Prozac 2005-03-20 Nebraska 18 Year Old Kills Himself
Suicide Wellbutrin [Zyban] WITHDRAWAL* 2003-02-24 England 18 Year Old Kills Himself: Coroner Rules Wellbutrin May Have Been a Factor
Murder Antidepressants 2009-04-19 Oklahoma 18 Year Old Kills his Father
Murder-Suicide Antidepressant WITHDRAWAL 2006-08-23 California 18 Year Old Kills Mother & Self
Murder Prozac 2000-10-04 Alabama 18 Year Old Kills Parents: Injures 3 Siblings
Murder Prozac 2004-01-25 Florida 18 Year Old Kills U. of Florida Research Analyst
Murder Effexor 2003-01-07 Maryland 18 Year Old Murders His Best Friend
What Drug Date Where Additional
School Shooting Prozac WITHDRAWAL 2008-02-15 Illinois ** 6 Dead: 15 Wounded: Perpetrator Was in Withdrawal from Med & Acting Erratically
School Shooting Prozac Antidepressant 2005-03-24 Minnesota **10 Dead: 7 Wounded: Dosage Increased One Week before Rampage
School Shooting Paxil [Seroxat] Antidepressant 2001-03-10 Pennsylvania **14 Year Old GIRL Shoots & Wounds Classmate at Catholic School
School Shooting Zoloft Antidepressant 1995-10-12 South Carolina **15 Year Old Shoots Two Teachers, Killing One: Then Kills Himself
School Shooting Med For Depression 2009-03-13 Germany **16 Dead Including Shooter: Antidepressant Use: Shooter in Treatment For Depression
School Shooting Plot Med For Depression Withdrawal 2008-08-28 Texas **18 Year Old Plots a Columbine School Attack
School Shooting Anafranil Antidepressant 1988-05-20 Illinois **29 Year Old WOMAN Kills One Child: Wounds Five: Kills Self
School Shooting Luvox/Zoloft Antidepressants 1999-04-20 Colorado **COLUMBINE: 15 Dead: 24 Wounded
School Shooting Prozac Antidepressant WITHDRAWAL 1998-05-21 Oregon **Four Dead: Twenty Injured
School Shooting Antidepressant 2006-09-30 Colorado **Man Assaults Girls: Kills One & Self
School Machete Attack Med for Depression 2001-09-26 Pennsylvania **Man Attacks 11 Children & 3 Teachers at Elementary School
School Shooting Antidepressants 1992-09-20 Texas **Man, Angry Over Daughter's Report Card, Shoots 14 Rounds inside Elementary School
School Shooting Threat Med for Depression* 2004-10-19 New Jersey **Over-Medicated Teen Brings Loaded Handguns to School
School Shooting Antidepressant? 2007-04-18 Virginia **Possible SSRI Use: 33 Dead at Virginia Tech
School Shooting Antidepressant? 2002-01-17 Virginia **Possible SSRI Withdrawal Mania: 3 Dead at Law School
School Shooting Prozac Antidepressant 1992-01-30 Michigan **School Teacher Shoots & Kills His Superintendent at School
School Violence/Murder Antidepressants* 1998-05-04 New York **Sheriff's Deputy Shoots his Wife in an Elementary School
School Threat Antidepressants 2007-04-23 Mississippi **Student Arrested for Making School Threat Over Internet
School Suspension Lexapro Antidepressant 2007-07-28 Arkansas **Student Has 11 Incidents with Police During his 16 Months on Lexapro
School Shooting Antidepressant WITHDRAWAL 2007-11-07 Finland **Student Kills 8: Wounds 10: Kills Self: High School in Finland
School Shooting Paxil [Seroxat] Antidepressant 2004-02-09 New York **Student Shoots Teacher in Leg at School
School Threat Prozac Antidepressant 2008-01-25 Washington **Student Takes Loaded Shotgun & 3 Rifles to School Parking Lot: Plans Suicide
School Shooting Plot Med For Depression 1998-12-01 Wisconsin **Teen Accused of Plotting to Gun Down Students at School
School/Assault Zoloft Antidepressant 2006-02-15 Tennessee **Teen Attacks Teacher at School
School Shooting Threat Antidepressant 1999-04-16 Idaho **Teen Fires Gun in School
School Hostage Situation Paxil & Effexor Antidepressants 2001-04-15 Washington **Teen Holds Classmates Hostage with a Gun
School Hostage Situation Antidepressant WITHDRAWAL 2006-11-28 North Carolina **Teen Holds Teacher & Student Hostage with Gun
School Knife Attack Med for Depression 2006-12-06 Indiana **Teen Knife Attacks Fellow Student
School Shooting Celexa & Effexor Antidepressants 2001-04-19 California **Teen Shoots at Classmates in School
School Shooting Celexa Antidepressant 2006-08-30 North Carolina **Teen Shoots at Two Students: Kills his Father: Celexa Found Among his Personal Effects
School Shooting Threat Antidepressant 2003-05-31 Michigan **Teen Threatens School Shooting: Charge is Terrorism
School Stand-Off Zoloft Antidepressant 1998-04-13 Idaho **Teen [14 Years Old] in School Holds Police At Bay: Fires Shots
School Shooting Antidepressant WITHDRAWAL 2007-10-12 Ohio **Teen [14 Years Old] School Shooter Possibly on Antidepressants or In Withdrawal
School Threat Antidepressants 2008-03-20 Indiana **Teen [16 Years Old] Brings Gun to School: There Is a Lockdown
School Suicide/Lockdown Med For Depression 2008-02-20 Idaho **Teen [16 Years Old] Kills Self at High School: Lockdown by Police
School Threats Prozac Antidepressant 1999-10-19 Florida **Teen [16 Years Old] Threatens Classmates With Knife & Fake Explosives
School Stabbing Med For Depression 2008-02-29 Texas **Teen [17 Year Old GIRL] Stabs Friend & Principal at High School
School Hostage Situation Prozac/ Paxil Antidepressants 2001-01-18 California **Teen [17 Years Old] Takes Girl Hostage at School: He is Killed by Police
School Knife Attack Treatment For Depression & Strattera 2009-03-10 Belgium **Three Dead in School Day Care: Two Children & a Caregiver: Happened Jan 23, 2009
School Arson Incidents Paxil 2002-04-12 Michigan **Unusual Personality Change on Paxil Caused 15 Year Old to Set Fires inside High School
School Violence Antidepressant 2005-11-19 Arizona **Violent 8 Year Old GIRL Handcuffed by Police at School
School Violence Celexa Antidepressant 2002-01-23 Florida **Violent 8 Year-Old Boy Arrested At School
School Threat/Lockdown Lexapro* 2008-04-18 California **Violent High School Student Shot to Death on Campus by Police
School / Child Endangerment Antidepressants 2008-02-27 Canada **Wacky School Bus Driver Goes Berserk: Also Involved Painkillers
School Violence Paxil 2004-10-23 Washington DC **Young Boy, 10 Year Old, Has Violent Incidents at School
School Threat Wellbutrin Antidepressant 2007-04-24 Tennessee **Young Boy, 12, Threatens to Shoot Others at School
School Hostage Situation Med for Depression 2006-03-09 France **Young Ex-Teacher Holds 21 Students Hostage
School Shooting/Suicide Celexa 2002-10-07 Texas **Young Girl [13 Years Old] Kills Self at School With a Gun
School Hostage Situation Paxil 2001-10-12 North Carolina **Young Man Holds Three People Hostage in Duke University President's Office
School Murder Attempt Med For Depression 1995-03-04 California **Young Woman Deliberately Hits 3 Kids with Her Car at Elementary School: Laughed During Attack
Murder Attempt Wellbutrin* 2006-02-12 Washington *82 Year Old Man Found Not Guilty: Med Defense
Air Rage Paxil* [Seroxat] 2006-01-25 England *Diplomat Cleared of Drinking Charges: Drug Blamed
Murder-Suicide Paxil* [Seroxat] 2001-08-09 Wyoming *Jury Finds Paxil Was Cause of Murder-Suicide
Shooting Antidepressant* 2005-03-05 Florida *Man Acquitted in Gas Station Shooting: Involuntary Intoxication by Med
Robbery/Armed Paxil [Seroxat] WITHDRAWAL* 2003-08-10 England *Man Cleared of Charges by Using Paxil Defense
Murder Zoloft* 2001-05-24 Australia *Man Found Not Guilty Using Zoloft Defense
Murder Attempt Zoloft* 2004-04-24 California *Man Found Not Guilty: Used Zoloft Defense
Murder Attempt-Suicide Attempt Effexor & Paxil* [Seroxat] 2003-06-17 Australia *Mother Acquitted by Using SSRI Defense
Murder Attempt Antidepressants* 2002-11-04 Arizona *Mother Acquitted of Attempted Child Murder
Murder Paxil & ADHD Drug* 2000-05-18 Washington *Mother Stabs Daughter: Not Guilty by Reason of Drug Induced Insanity
Murder Attempt Prozac 2008-05-20 Connecticut *Not Guilty Because of Psychosis Brought On by Prozac & Adderall
Murder Cymbalta Antidepressant 2007-05-15 Texas *Not Guilty by Reason of Cymbalta Induced Insanity: Man Kills Wife
Embezzlement/Bizarre Behavior Paxil* 2006-11-17 Florida *Not Guilty by Reason of Paxil Induced Insanity
Bank Robbery Prozac* 2002-11-16 Connecticut *Not Guilty by Reason of Prozac Induced Insanity
Murder Prozac* 2003-07-11 Louisiana *Not Guilty by Reason of Prozac Induced Insanity: Mother Kills Daughter
Violence Prozac* 2000-06-30 England *Woman Acquitted in Stabbing Incident
Stabbing Prozac 1998-10-13 Scotland *Woman Stabs Boyfriend: Used Prozac Defense: Placed on Probation
Adverse Reaction SSRIs 2006-12-20 Global ++1 Preliminary Study: LSD & SSRIs Share Same Mechanism in Some Ways: U. of Arizona
Mania & Psychosis Antidepressants 2004-02-02 U.S.A. ++200,000 a Year Enter Hospital Due to Antidepressant- Induced Mania/ Psychosis: FDA Testimony
Mania Antidepressants 2006-11-28 U.S.A. ++4.8 Million Person Increase in Bipolar Disorder in Last 11 Years: Majority Due to SSRI Use
Alcohol Craving Zoloft 2004-07-14 Global ++45 Out of 100 Alcoholics Increased Their Drinking on Zoloft
Deaths Wellbutrin* 2006-08-02 Washington DC ++468 Deaths Reported to FDA Thru 2003 : Freedom of Information
Misdiagnosis Med For Depression 2008-03-25 Global ++60% of 'Bipolars
Not Recommended For Youth SSRIs 2008-11-12 U.S.A. ++74% of Youth Will Not Respond to SSRIs: CNS Response Data
Suicidal Thoughts Antidepressants 2007-06-07 Global ++8.8% of Non-Suicidal People Had Suicidal Thoughts on Antidepressants
Self-Mutilation Prozac 2000-05-07 Global ++According To Patent, Prozac, launched in Dec.1987, Causes Self-Mutilation
Alcohol Abuse Effexor 2007-05-01 Global ++Alcohol Abuse & "Feeling Drunk" Listed as Side Effects in PDR
Alcohol Abuse Paxil 2007-05-01 Global ++Alcohol Abuse is Listed as an Adverse Reaction to Paxil in the Insert
Suicide/Impulsivity Antidepressants 2008-07-06 Global ++Almost One-Third of Suicides are Impulsive: Antidepressants Can Cause Impulsivity
Appear To Look Older Antidepressants 2009-02-04 Global ++Antidepressant Use Can Make People Look Older Than They Are: Also Causes Face Sagging: ASPS
Ineffectiveness Antidepressants 2008-02-25 Global ++Antidepressants Are Ineffective: PLoS Medicine
Cancer Acceleration Antidepressants 2008-09-13 Global ++Antidepressants Can Both Accelerate and/or Shut Down Cancer Growth
Mood Destabilization Antidepressants 2008-03-04 Global ++Antidepressants Cause Rapid Cycling & Mood Destabilization in Bipolar Disorder: Am J Psychiatry
Infertility Antidepressants 2008-09-24 Global ++Antidepressants Could Harm Sperm & Lead to Infertility
Ineffective Antidepressants 2007-03-29 Global ++Antidepressants Don't Help Bipolar Patients: New England Journal of Medicine
REM Sleep Inhibition Antidepressants 2008-08-01 Global ++Antidepressants Inhibit REM Sleep: Loss of Dreaming Can Lead to Serious Illness
Parasomnia Antidepressants 2007-11-28 Global ++Antidepressants May Cause Violence in Sleep: Journal Article
Misprescribing Antidepressants 2009-06-07 Global ++Antidepressants Not Recommended in Mania but Frequently Prescribed: Research Study
Deaths SSRIs/Antidepressants 2009-02-23 England & Wales ++Between 1993 & 2002 there were 4,767 Deaths On SSRIs/ Antidepressants
Death Effexor 2005-05-28 England ++Between 1993 & 2002, 118 People in England & Wales Died While on Effexor
REM Sleep Disorder SSRIs 2009-02-20 Global ++Body Does Not Become Paralyzed During REM Sleep: Allows People on SSRIs To Act Out Their Dreams
Ineffective Celexa 2009-06-01 Global ++Celexa Has No Effect on Repetitive Behaviors in Autism: Causes Many Adverse Effects
Vivid Dreams/Nightmares Cymbalta 2009-01-07 Global ++Certain Antidepressants Such As Cymbalta Have Been Associated with Nightmares
Suicide Chantix & Zoloft 2008-07-15 Global ++Chantix & Zoloft Share Similar Mechanism: Lawsuit Over Suicide on Chantix
Conflict of Interest Psychotropic Medications 2009-06-03 Global ++Creators of Psychiatric Bible, the DSM-V, Have Economic Ties with Pharma
Suicide SSRIs 2008-07-17 Global ++David Healy, M.D. Responds to WSJ Article: Doubling of Suicidal Acts on SSRIs Over Placebo
Osteoporosis SSRIs 2008-02-06 Global ++Double The Risk for Osteoporosis for Those on SSRIs
Mania/Violence/Suicide Prozac 1990-08-16 Global ++Dr. Martin Teicher: Between 1.9 to 7.7% of Prozac Users at Risk for Mania, Violence/Suicide
Crime Against Humanity SSRIs 2009-01-04 Global ++Drug Companies Kept Information Secret About SSRIs
Drug Interaction Prozac, Paxil & Zoloft 2009-06-01 Global ++Evidence Shows Antidepressants Cut Effectiveness of Tamoxifen in Breast Cancer: Medco Health
Helps Depression Exercise 2000-09-21 Global ++Exercise Better Than Antidepressants for Depression: Duke University Study
Suicides & Homicides SSRIs 2009-05-11 U.S.A. ++FDA Adverse Reaction Reports from 2004 to 2006
Serotonin Syndrome Antidepressants 2006-08-03 Global ++FDA Issues Public Health Advisory on Mixing Meds with Antidepressants
Panic Attacks, Hostility, Mania, Etc. SSRIs/Antidepressants 2004-03-22 Global ++FDA Public Health Advisory: Warning About Antidepressants: Also Withdrawal
Serotonin Syndrome SSRIs & SNRIs 2009-03-27 Global ++FDA Upgrades Warning on Serotonin Syndrome
Suicide Cymbalta 2005-07-01 Global ++FDA Warns of Higher Suicide Risk: Studies in Women Using Cymbalta for Incontinence
Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome SSRIs/SNRIs 2009-02-05 Global ++FDA Warns of Life Threatening Disease: Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome With Antidepressants
Unethical Zoloft & Cymbalta 2008-09-15 U.S.A. ++FDA Web Site on Drug Ads Developed by Drug Industry PR Firm
FDA Warning Antidepressants 2004-03-22 U.S.A. ++FDA: Depression Meds Can Cause Mania, Hypomania, Hostility, Panic Attacks, Worse Depression, Etc.
Suicides & Homicides Chantix 2007-11-28 Global ++Fifty-five Suicides Reported in One Week to FDA: Freedom of Information Act
Abnormal Behavior Prozac 2008-08-07 Global ++Fish Exposed to Prozac Exhibit Abnormal Behavior
Suicide Prozac 2008-10-14 U.S.A. ++Govt. Study: 9% More Children On Prozac Alone Were Suicidal Compared to Those on Therapy Alone
FDA Medication Guide Antidepressants 2007-08-15 U.S.A. ++Guide to Be Given by Pharmacies to All Parents/Guardians of Those Under 18
Adverse Reactions Prozac 2001-04-29 Global ++Head of World Health Organization Warns of Side Effects
Violence Antidepressants 2009-05-22 Japan ++Health Ministries Revise Warnings On Med Guides: Causal Relationship Between SSRIs & Violence
Serotonin Syndrome SSRIs & SNRIs 2008-11-09 U.S.A. ++In 2004, 103 Deaths Recorded from Serotonin Syndrome & 8,187 People Had Toxic Effects
Suicide Increase Antidepressants 2008-10-21 U.S.A. ++Increase in Both Suicide Rate & Antidepressant Use Among Middle Aged White Adults
Falls Med for Depression 2008-06-19 Global ++Increased Risk of Falls in Older People Taking Meds for Depression: Public Library of Science
Bleeding SSRIs 2009-06-01 Global ++Increases Risk of Fatal Bleeding For Those on Low Dose Continuous Aspirin
Depression & Abnormal Thoughts Prozac 2008-11-02 Global ++Lilly Removed Data on Depression & Abnormal Thoughts as Frequent Adverse Reactions:Clinical Trials
Adverse Reaction Prozac 1999-05-10 Global ++Little Difference Between the Street Drug Ecstasy & Prozac: Noted Mental Health Journalist
Diabetes SSRIs/Antidepressants 2009-04-17 Global ++Long-Term Use of Moderate to High Daily Doses of SSRIs Doubles the Risk For Diabetes: NIH
Decrease in Suicides None 2007-10-19 Maryland ++Maryland Has Seen a Decrease in Youth Suicide Since the Black Box Warning
Worsens Depression Antidepressants* 2009-05-08 Global ++Mayo Clinic Physician Believes Antidepressants Can Worsen Depression & Also Cause Mania
Infertility SSRIs 2009-06-12 Global ++Men on SSRI Antidepressants Have Reduced Fertility
Suicides Antidepressants 2009-02-05 Iraq/Afghanistan ++More Soldiers Committed Suicide in Jan. 2009 Than Died In Combat: Excessive Antidepressants Cited
Ineffective Prozac & Zoloft, etc. 2009-05-19 Global ++Most Studies of Prozac & Zoloft Were Negative But Still Approved by FDA: Book: Beyond Prozac
Turbulent Emotions/Compelling Thoughts SSRIs 2009-02-07 Global ++One in 20 People Without Depression Had Side Effects Such As Turbulent Emotions & Thoughts: Study
Homicidal Ideation Zoloft 2008-11-03 Global ++One in Sixty-six Children Aged 17 & Under Had Homicidal Ideation in this Study from the NEJM
Serotonin Toxicity Antidepressants 2008-09-01 Australia ++One in Twelve Older Men at Risk for Serotonin Toxicity by Drug Combinations
Apathy Antidepressants 2009-06-01 Global ++One of the Side-Effects of Antidepressants is Apathy: Research for DSM-V
Violence Paxil 2004-11-07 Global ++One Out of Five Paxil Users Surveyed by MIND Reported Violent Behavior
Overprescribing Antidepressants 2008-12-02 Australia ++Over 4000 Children Under 10 Years of Age,, including 48 Babies, were Prescribed SSRIs Last Year
Adverse Reactions Chantix/Champix 2009-02-05 Canada ++Over 800 Complaints to Health Canada: 520 Involved Psychiatric Problems
Homicidal Ideation Effexor 2007-05-01 Global ++Package Insert Lists Homicidal Ideation as Adverse Reaction
Adverse Effects Paxil 2004-10-03 England ++Panorama TV Investigates Paxil's Effects of Aggression, Suicide & Withdrawal Syndrome
Homicidal Thoughts Zoloft 2004-12-19 U.S.A. ++Patient in Clinical Trials for Zoloft Had Thoughts of Killing Self & Others
Hyponatremia SSRIs 2009-03-28 Global ++Patients Taking SSRIs More Likely to Have Hyponatremia & Fracture Limbs During Falls
Do Not Prescribe Zoloft 2008-11-03 Australia ++Pfizer, Zoloft's Manufacturer, Recommends Zoloft No Be Prescribed To Those Under 24 in Australia
Ineffectiveness SSRIs 2008-01-17 Global ++Pharmaceutical Companies Witheld Negative Results in Trials of SSRIs; You Tube
Hypertension & Preeclampsia SSRIs 2009-03-02 Global ++Pregnant Woman Who Use SSRIs Have 4 X the Rate of Hypertension & 2 X the Rate of Preeclampsia
Sleep Problems SSRIs 2009-02-16 Global ++Prepubescent Children Who Take Antidepressants Are Susceptible to Sleep Problems Thoughout Life:
Ineffective For Autism Prozac 2009-02-24 Global ++Prozac Is Ineffective For Autism: Clinical Trials
Uncontrolled Actions Antidepressants 1995-04-05 Global ++Psychopharmacologist at McLean: Antidepressants Involving Mania Can Cause Uncontrollable Actions
Unethical Zoloft 2008-05-23 Global ++PTSD Alliance Group Is the Creation of a Public Relations Firm Working for Pfizer
Anxiety/Panic Attacks SSRIs 2000-05-14 Global ++Research: Serotonin Levels 8 Times Higher Than Normal in Unmedicated Anxious People
Suicide SSRIs 2008-05-05 Iraq/U.S.A. ++Soldiers Have More Post War SuicidesThan Combat Deaths in Iraq & Afghanistan
Crime Against Humanity Chantix 2008-06-17 U.S.A. ++Soldiers with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Recruited to Test Drug the FDA Says Causes Suicide
Homicides SSRIs 2007-11-20 Global ++SSRIs & Homicide: The New York Review of Books
Suicide SSRIs* 2006-10-16 Global ++SSRIs Can Increase the Number of Serotonin Receptors Linked to Suicide
Weight Gain SSRIs/Antidepressants 2009-02-18 Global ++SSRIs Cause Weight Lose At the Beginning of Use But Weight Gain After Continuous use
Ineffective SSRIs 2009-01-26 Global ++SSRIs Ineffective For Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder: Meta-analyses
Effectiveness Questioned SSRIs & SNRIs 2007-11-25 Global ++SSRIs Only Have a 10% Effective Rate Over Placebo and the 10% Is Suspect
Mania St. Johns Wort 2009-02-18 Global ++St. Johns Wort Can Cause Mania In People With So Called Bipolar Disorder
Adverse Reactions Prozac 1991-11-05 Colorado ++State Dept. of Health Reports Prozac Had More Adverse Reactions Reported Than Any Other Drug
Crime Against Humanity Antidepressants 2007-09-17 U.S.A. ++Statistics on Suicides Among the Young Have Been "Manipulated": 1st Article
Crime Against Humanity Antidepressants 2007-09-17 U.S.A. ++Statistics on Suicides Among the Young Have Been "Manipulated": 2nd article
Crime Against Humanity Antidepressants 2007-09-17 U.S.A. ++Statistics on Suicides Among the Young Have Been "Manipulated": 3rd Article
Crime Against Humanity Antidepressants 2007-09-17 U.S.A. ++Statistics on Suicides Among the Young Have Been "Manipulated": 4th Article
Suicide Rates Decline SSRIs 2007-12-04 U.S.A. ++Statistics: As SSRI Use Declined Among Youth Between 2004 & 2005, Suicide Rates Declined: AJP
Diabetes Antidepressants 2008-03-13 Global ++Study Shows Increased Risk of Diabetes with Antidepressant Use
Violence SSRIs 2001-05-11 Global ++Study: Excess of Serotonin in Brain Causes Violence
Suicide Rate Antidepressants 2008-09-06 U.S.A. ++Suicide Rate Among Teens Declines as Antidepressant Use Among Teens Slows
Suicide Rates Antidepressants 2008-04-14 Denmark ++Suicide Rates Were Five to Six Times Higher Among those Taking SSRIs Than Those Who Were Not
Suicides Antidepressants 2009-01-12 Global ++Suicide Risk Higher for First 12 Weeks Following Antidepressant Start: J of Affective Disorders
Treatment-Emergent Mania Antidepressants 2009-02-12 Global ++TEM Caused by SSRIs Can Lead to Damaging Behaviors, Arrest & Incarceration
Sexual Dysfunction SSRIs 2008-12-15 Global ++Thirty- Ffity % of Those on SSRIs Have Sexual Dysfunction: Some May Not Recover After Withdrawing
Kleptomania Med For Depression 2009-05-04 Global ++Three-Fourths of Kleptomaniacs Were on Depression Meds at Time of Thefts: U. Of Minnesota Study
Stock Market Crash Prozac 2003-05-28 U.S.A./Global ++Trader Becomes Hypomanic on Medication
Stock Market Crash Antidepressants 2008-10-08 U.S.A./Global ++Traders on Antidepressants May Have Contributed to the Financial Crisis: Journalist Adam Hanft
Stock Market Crash SSRIs 2008-03-26 U.S.A./Global ++Traders on Wall Street Admit to Antidepressant Use
Suicide Risk Antidepressants 2008-09-01 Europe ++Update From European & Irish Agencies on Suicide Risk in Young Adults
Side-Effects List Paxil, Effexor & Imipramine 2009-04-09 Global ++Warning on Side-Effects of Antidepressants: British Medical Journal Publishing
Seizures Wellbutrin 2008-08-19 Global ++Wellbutrin Alone Produced Seizures in Mice: Larger Effect When Alcohol Was Added
Birth Defects Prozac & Paxil 2008-11-24 U.S.A. ++Women Who Took Prozac & Paxil During Pregnancy Had 3 to 4 Times As Many Babies With Birth Defects
Maladaptive Behaviors SSRIs 2007-07-07 Global ++Young Mice Given SSRIs Have Maladaptive Behaviors in Adulthood
Adverse Reaction Prozac* 1995-12-10 Colorado +10 Year Old Boy Becomes Like Someone on Heroin, According to Psychologist
Murder Prozac 2004-08-31 Texas +10 Year Old Kills his Father, Who Is a Physician
Murder Zoloft* 2001-11-28 South Carolina +12 Year Old Kills His Grandparents
Suicide Paxil 2005-04-09 Virginia +14 Year Old Girl Kills Self: Made into TV Show
Murder Prozac 1994-10-23 Iowa +14 Year Old Girl Stabs Great Aunt: Given Life in Prison
Murder Zoloft 2004-05-03 Montana +14 Year Old Murders his Mother & 10 Year Old Brother
Violence Zoloft* 2004-09-12 Colorado +15 Year Old Girl 'Knife Attacks' Mother
Murder Paxil WITHDRAWAL 2002-11-14 Texas +15 Year Old Girl Kills 6 Year Old Brother
Murder Paxil 2008-05-26 Texas +15 Year Old Girl Kills Grandmother 13 Years Ago: Life Sentence
Murder Wellbutrin 2000-03-11 Massachusetts +16 Year Old Girl Kills her Mother, a Psychiatrist
Murder Zoloft* 2005-03-06 Idaho +16 Year Old Girl Kills her Parents: Court TV
Murder Med For Depression 1994-09-09 Kansas +16 Year Old Kills his Mother & Sister: No Illegal Drugs or Alcohol
Murder Prozac 2006-11-26 Maryland +16 Year Old PATIENT in Mental Hospital Kills Nurse: Gets Life Without Possibility of Parole
Suicide Attempt Prozac & Zoloft 2001-07-01 Oregon +17 Year Old Attempts Suicide: Lawsuit Won
Murder Prozac 2004-01-12 Michigan +17 Year Old Kills his Two Sisters & his Mother: No Illegal Drugs or Alcohol
Suicide Cymbalta Antidepressant WITHDRAWAL 2004-02-10 Indiana +19 Year Old Healthy, Normal Woman Kills Self During Clinical Trial
Murder-Suicide Prozac 1994-06-05 New Jersey +77 Year Old Woman Stabs Husband 35 Times & Stabs Self 50 Times
Anthrax Murders Celexa 2008-08-08 U.S.A. +Anthrax Suspect Took Celexa First: Became Psychotic.: Psychosis is Listed as an Adverse Reaction
Murder-Suicide Paxil* 1997-04-14 California +Asian: Father Drowns Two Children: Kills Self: Lawsuit
Murder Antidepressant 2004-07-25 England +Britain's Most Wanted Man
Murder-Suicide Zoloft 1998-05-28 California +Comedian Phil Hartman Shot in his Sleep by Wife, Brynn: She Then Kills Self
Assault & DWI Lexapro 2003-11-27 Arizona +Country Singer Arrested
Murder-Suicide Antidepressants 2001-08-06 Nepal +Crown Prince of Nepal Kills 9 Family Members & Self
Murder Prozac 1991-11-06 California +Daughter, A College Professor, Bites her 87 Year Old Mother to Death
Road Rage Mania Prozac* 2001-03-29 Paris, France +Dr. Discusses the Driver [Henri Paul] of Princess Diana
Shoplifting Zoloft 2001-12-15 California +Famous Actress, Winona Ryder, Arrested for Shoplifting
Suicide Prozac 1997-10-15 California +Famous Author's Son Commits Suicide
Murder Paxil WITHDRAWAL: Prozac* 2006-01-20 North Carolina +Father Murders 5 Year Old Twin Daughters: Featured on Oprah Winfrey Show
Murder Paxil 2008-05-25 Canada +Father Who Murdered Son Four Years Ago Campaigns Against SSRIs
Workplace Violence/Murder-Suicide Luvox 1998-03-06 Connecticut +Five Dead: State Lottery Business Office
Nervous Breakdown Antidepressant 2003-07-24 California +Football Player Misses Superbowl
Violence Antidepressant WITHDRAWAL 2008-01-31 England +Man Attacks Woman with Machete: Given Reduced Sentence Because of Withdrawal
Murder Paxil 2003-07-24 New York +Man Shoots NY City Councilman in City Council Chambers
Stabbing Prozac* 1992-06-11 Florida +Man Stabs Wife: Physician Testifies Prozac Was Main Cause
Mania Prozac 2008-10-06 Canada +Margaret Trudeau Becomes Manic on Prozac: Is Now Off All Antidepressants
Workplace Violence/Murder-Suicide Prozac 1989-09-14 Kentucky +Nine Dead: 12 Wounded: Standard Gravure Printing Company
Murder Prozac 2006-11-26 California +O. J. Simpson on Double Dose of Prozac at Time of Murders
Bizarre Behavior Paxil & Prozac 2008-01-12 California +Pop Star Britney Spears Exhibits Bizarre Behavior on Paxil
Murder Effexor* 2006-07-10 Texas +Postpartum Depression: Andrea Yates Retried for Murder of Five Children
Murder Zoloft 2006-01-12 New Mexico +Sam Donaldson's Ranch Manager's 14 Year Old Son Murders his Parents & Sister
Workplace Violence/Murder Prozac* 2000-12-26 Massachusetts +Seven dead at Edgewater Technology Computer Company
Workplace Violence/Murder-Suicide Zoloft & Celexa 2003-07-10 Mississippi +Six Dead: Lockheed Martin
Death Paxil/Seroquel & Benzo 2008-06-08 U.S.A. +Soldiers [Twelve] Die in Sleep from PTSD Meds As Uncovered by the Father of One of the Soldiers
Affair With Minor Antidepressants 2007-12-10 Canada +Woman School Teacher Accused of Affair with 13 Year Old Male Student
Affair With Minor Prozac 2001-09-01 Utah +Woman School Teacher Gets Jail for Sexual Abuse of 16 Year Old Boy
Affair With Minor Med For Depression 2008-07-17 Wisconsin +Woman School Teacher Has Affair with 13 Year Old Boy
Affair With Minor Paxil/Wellbutrin 2004-12-03 Florida +Woman School Teacher Has Affair with 14 Year Old Boy
Affair With Minor Antidepressants 2007-12-11 New York +Woman School Teacher Has Affair with 15 Year Old Male Student
Affair With Minor Celexa 2009-04-23 New York +Woman School Teacher Molests 13 Year Old Male Student
Affair With Minor Antidepressants 2009-02-06 Texas +Woman School Teacher, 42, Molests her 10th Grade Male Student in a Classrom After School Hours
Affair With Minor Prozac/Wellbutrin 2006-06-22 New Hampshire +Woman SchoolTeacher Has Affair with 16 Year Old Boy
Affairs with Minors Prozac 2006-03-24 West Virginia +Woman SchoolTeacher Molests Four Students Under 15
Murder Paxil 1999-10-16 California +Woman Serial Killer was on Paxil at Time of Murders
Murder Antidepressant* 2002-09-21 Tennessee +Woman Stabs Man Over 100 Times
Affairs With Minors SSRIs 2009-04-18 Idaho/Global +Women Molest Minors: SSRIs: More Mania: More Bipolar: More Women Become Pedophiles
Murder Paxil 2003-05-22 Pennsylvania +Young Woman Murders Two People: Made into TV Show
Death Bipolar Meds 2009-06-07 Kansas 3 Year Old Girl Dies from High Dosages of Bipolar Meds
Death Bipolar Meds 2007-02-08 Massachusetts 4 Year Old Girl Dies From Overdose of Meds
Behavioral Change Prozac 2006-07-07 Connecticut 5 year Old Goes from Anxious to Angry
Overdose Remeron Antidepressant & Others 2006-08-06 Washington 6 Year Old Dies on Psych Cocktail
Inappropriate Behaviors Antidepressants 2005-04-13 U.S.A. 6 Year Old With Selective Mutism Exhibits Bad Behavior in Kindergarten: Is OK When Med Is Stopped
Suicide Prozac & Zyprexa 2009-04-22 Florida 7 Year Old Boy Hangs Himself
Death Antidepressant 2007-11-28 Oregon 7 Year Old In Foster Care Dies From Poweful Antidepressant
Tantrums Prozac 2007-11-24 Michigan 8 Year Old Asperger's Patient Misdiagnosed With Depression: Becomes Worse on Prozac
Behavioral Change Luvox, Ritalin, etc. 2006-01-29 Illinois 8 Year Old Becomes Zombie
Death Prozac 1995-02-15 Pennsylvania 9 Year Old Boy Dies From Prozac Toxicity
Suicide Attempt & Rages Paxil 2002-03-18 Pennsylvania 9 Year Old Girl Becomes Worse on Meds
Arson/Murder Attempt Med For Depression 2002-01-03 Ohio 10 & 11 Year Old Boy & Girl Attempt Arson & Murder
Violent Behavior Prozac WITHDRAWAL 2006-06-14 England 10 Year Old Becomes Violent
Suicide Effexor 2002-08-14 Texas 10 Year Old Boy Hangs Himself
Suicide Med for Depression 2005-10-24 South Africa 10 Year Old Boy Hangs Himself
Suicide Attempt Antidepressant 2004-10-12 Illinois 10 Year Old Girl Attempts Suicide
Death Effexor/Psychotropics 2001-04-04 Colorado 10 Year Old Girl Dies During "Rebirthing" Therapy: Meds May Have Been a Factor
Assault/Gun Prozac 1996-03-09 Florida 10 Year Old Uses 3 Year Old Niece as Shield: Aims Gun at Sheriff's Deputy
Violence Prozac 2000-02-27 Pennsylvania 11 Year Old Becomes Violent & Aggressive on Prozac & Ritalin
Suicide Effexor & Zoloft 2008-09-20 U.S.A. 11 Year Old Boy Hangs Self in 2002: Reported In the Book Medication Madness
Violence & Suicide Attempt Paxil 1999-01-05 Michigan 11 Year Old Boy is Violent & Suicidal on Paxil
Suicide Lexapro 2006-07-26 Utah 11 Year Old Girl Hangs Self; Family Sues
Robbery/Shooting Paxil 1996-02-28 New York 11 Year Old Goes On Robbery & Shooting Spree
Suicide Prozac 1997-09-13 Louisiana 11 Year Old Hangs Himself
Suicide Effexor & Zoloft* 2004-10-06 Nebraska 11 Year Old Hangs Himself: Lawsuit
Suicidal Behavior Antidepressants 2007-12-26 Arizona 12 Year Old Boy Recovers After Doctors Take Him Off Antidepressants
Suicide Zoloft 2004-01-15 Virginia 12 Year Old Girl Commits Suicide
Suicide Zoloft 2000-01-05 Texas 12 Year Old Girl Commits Suicide
Suicide Paxil 2004-02-09 Idaho 12 Year Old Girl Commits Suicide
Suicide Attempt & Self-Mutilation Prozac & Zoloft 1988-01-15 Washington DC 12 Year Old Girl Given Meds Deteriorates
Homicidal Ideation Prozac & Paxil 2000-04-18 U.S.A. 12 Year Old Girl Plots to Kill her Mother
Suicide Attempt Med for Depression 2004-08-09 Maine 12 Year Old Girl Self-Mutilates & Attempts Suicide
Murder Zoloft 2006-08-11 Arkansas 12 Year Old Kills 11 Year Old Sister
Suicide Med For Depression 2008-01-15 Missouri 12 Year Old Kills Self: On Both Antidepressants & ADHD Med
Child Suicide Prozac 2006-03-01 Michigan 12 Year Old Shoots Himself
Cure Exercise Program 2008-04-19 Australia 12 Year Old With Depression & Suicidal Thoughts is Cured with Exercise-Based Therapy Program
Injury to Child Paxil 2002-09-24 New York 12-Year-Old Driven Insane By Medicine
Murder Attempt Med For Depression 1993-04-16 Iowa 13 & 14 Year Olds Attempt to Kill Police Officer: 26 Mile Chase
Mania Antidepressants 2007-09-05 Texas 13 Year Old Becomes "Bipolar" after Antidepressant Use
Suicide Zoloft 1997-07-28 Kansas 13 Year Old Boy Commits Suicide
Suicide Attempt Zoloft 2003-09-17 Arizona 13 Year Old Boy Intends to Commit Suicide at School
Violence Med for Depression 2005-07-12 New York 13 Year Old Girl Attacks Police: Child is Critically Injured
Suicide Med For Depression 2007-03-15 Georgia 13 Year Old Girl Commits Suicide
Suicide Lexapro 2005-04-02 Georgia 13 Year Old Hangs Himself
Murder Antidepressants* 2008-04-18 Colorado 13 Year Old Killed Mother & Grandmother in 1999: Is Released From Prison: Now Has Adult Sentence
Murder Prozac 2006-03-24 Washington 13 Year Old Kills Grandmother
Suicide Antidepressants 1998-03-26 California 13 Year Old Kills Himself
Suicide Paxil 2008-02-03 California 13 Year Old Kills Self: Lawsuit: Dismissed Because of State Law
Suicide Prozac 2000-06-02 Utah 14 Year Old Boy Commits Suicide
Murder Med For Depression Withdrawal 2009-03-04 California 14 Year Old Boy Fires Into Crowd: One Man Killed: Five Day Withdrawal
Violence Antidepressant 2008-02-07 Massachusetts 14 Year Old Boy Stabs Police Officer in Chest
Murder Antidepressant 2005-04-09 Virginia 14 Year Old Boy Stabs Store Clerk
Suicide Paxil 2007-06-13 Indiana 14 Year Old Commits Suicide: Lawsuit
Suicide Attempt Paxil 2001-05-15 New Jersey 14 Year Old Girl Attempts Suicide
Suicide Attempt Zoloft 2008-09-19 Australia 14 Year Old Girl Attempts Suicide: Possible Lawsuit
Murder Attempt Zoloft 1999-09-29 Florida 14 Year Old Girl Attempts to Kill Mother
Injury to Child Paxil 2003-04-06 New Jersey 14 Year Old Girl Becomes Suicidal & Violent : Lawsuit
Arson/Death Antidepressants 1996-12-15 Indiana 14 Year Old Girl Burns Down Her House: Mother & Sister Die
Suicide Celexa/SSRIs 2002-06-07 U.S.A. 14 Year Old Girl Commits Suicide
Suicide Prozac 2000-10-31 Arizona 14 Year Old Girl Commits Suicide
Suicide Prozac 2007-02-06 Canada 14 Year Old Girl Commits Suicide
Suicide Lexapro 2008-07-12 Missouri 14 Year Old Girl Commits Suicide While On Lexapro
Suicide Lexapro 2009-04-13 New York 14 Year Old Girl Commits Suicide: Fund for Funeral Expenses Announced
Self-Mutilation/Cutting Med For Depression 2009-02-18 Pennsylvania 14 Year Old Girl Deliberately Harms Herself
Self-Mutilation Antidepressant 2007-06-06 Illinois 14 Year Old Girl Has Increase in Self-Mutilation While On Antidepressant
Suicide Effexor 2004-09-27 California 14 Year Old Girl Kill Self: Took 4 SSRIs in One Year
Murder Antidepressant 2006-09-14 Oregon 14 Year Old Girl Kills Friend of Same Age
Suicide Prozac 2005-09-27 Canada 14 Year Old Girl Kills Self
Suicide Med For Depression 2007-11-12 Missouri 14 Year Old Girl Kills Self
Suicide Prozac 2009-06-08 Connecticut 14 Year Old Girl Kills Self: Happened in 2005: Lawsuit in 2009
Arson Antidepressant* 2004-12-04 Ohio 14 Year Old Girl Sets Fires
Suicidal Behavior Effexor 2005-08-05 Virginia 14 Year Old Girl Suffers Adverse Reaction
Suicide Prozac 2000-12-05 Alabama 14 Year Old Hangs Himself
Suicide Zoloft & Paxil 1995-04-09 New Jersey 14 Year Old Kills Himself
Suicide Zoloft 1997-04-21 Florida 14 Year Old Kills Himself
Murder Paxil 1995-03-11 Illinois 14 Year Old Kills his Mother
Suicide Zoloft & Effexor 2005-07-07 California 14 Year Old Kills Self
Murder Zoloft & ADHD Drug 1997-09-02 Michigan 14 Year Old Kills Woman During Robbery: Life Sentence
Shooting Effexor & Seroquel 2007-10-31 Tennessee 14 Year Old Shoots at Store Clerk
Knife Attack Med For Depression 2008-08-04 Tennessee 14 Year Old Stabs his Parents: They Are Hospitalized in Serious Condition
Suicide Attempt Antidepressants 2005-01-06 Massachusetts 15 & 17 Year Old Brothers Attempt Suicide
Assault Antidepressant 2007-05-03 England 15 Year Old Assaults Police: Also Involved Alcohol
Suicide Attempt Antidepressants 2006-01-25 Arkansas 15 Year Old Attempts Suicide at School
Suicide Attempt Med For Depression 2007-08-28 Pennsylvania 15 Year Old Attempts Suicide: Tries to Jump from Bridge
Murder Attempt-Suicide Antidepressant WITHDRAWAL 2005-05-16 Nebraska 15 Year Old Attempts to Kill Father: Kills Self
Assault Zoloft, Straterra & Risperdal 2005-01-25 New York 15 Year Old Boy Assaults Neighbor Girl
Suicide Antidepressant 2008-07-30 North Carolina 15 Year Old Boy Commits Suicide
Suicide Zoloft 2003-12-17 Texas 15 Year Old Boy Commits Suicide on Zoloft
Death Antidepressants 2008-12-18 Australia 15 Year Old Boy in Three Day Withdrawal Killed by Police When Boy Became Violent
Homicidal Thoughts Zoloft, Paxil & Effexor 2004-02-02 Georgia 15 Year Old Boy Injured by Meds
Murder Paxil 1997-10-31 New Jersey 15 Year Old Boy Kills 11 Year Old Boy Who Was Selling Cookies Door-To-Door
Murder Med for Depression 1999-08-25 Illinois 15 Year Old Boy Kills Father: Injures Mother
Murder Prozac* 2009-01-28 England 15 Year Old Boy Murders Man: Trial Is In Progress
Murder Zoloft 1997-05-22 New York 15 Year Old Commits Murder in Central Park
Suicide Antidepressants 1998-10-27 North Carolina 15 Year Old Commits Suicide
Suicide Zoloft 1997-03-20 Florida 15 Year Old Commits Suicide
Suicide Attempt Prozac 1995-02-22 Florida 15 Year Old Deliberately Drives Car into House
Death Antidepressant 2009-04-11 Michigan 15 Year Old Dies From One Taser Shock
Suicide Zoloft 1996-05-19 Missouri 15 Year Old Girl Commits Suicide
Suicide Med For Depression 2007-05-05 Colorado 15 Year Old Girl Commits Suicide
Suicide Antidepressants 2006-07-21 England 15 Year Old Girl Dies from Overdose
Suicide Zoloft 2004-10-24 Utah 15 Year Old Girl Given Zoloft for 'Warts'
Suicide Zoloft & Accutane 2004-10-28 Australia 15 Year Old Girl Hang Self
Suicide Prozac 1996-07-12 California 15 Year Old Girl Jumps Off Cliff with 14 Year Old Girl
Suicide Prozac 2001-04-15 Idaho 15 Year Old Girl Kills Self
Murder Plans Paxil 2004-09-12 Florida 15 Year Old Girl Plans to Kill Mother, Brother & Self
Self-Mutilation Prozac, Zoloft & Paxil 1997-10-19 Massachusetts 15 Year Old Girl Self-Mutilates
Murder Prozac 2000-11-30 North Carolina 15 Year Old Girl Shoots Grandfather
Murder Cymbalta Antidepressant 2009-06-01 Maryland 15 Year Old Girl Solicits her Father's Murder
Suicide Attempt Prozac 2006-03-26 Georgia 15 Year Old Girl Tries to Hang Self
Suicide Prozac 2006-03-26 Texas 15 Year Old Hangs Himself
Suicide Med For Depression 2009-04-27 Georgia 15 Year Old Kills Himself in the Year 2000: Mother Now Helping Other Survivors
Murder Paxil 2000-04-18 Tennessee 15 Year Old Kills his Father
Suicide Antidepressant 2005-06-16 Nebraska 15 Year Old Kills Self
Murder Effexor 2006-06-29 Virginia 15 Year Old Kills Store Clerk
Murder Zoloft 2003-01-19 Florida 15 Year Old Murders His Uncle
Arson Prozac 1999-03-10 Florida 15 Year Old Sets Fires
Suicide Prozac 1992-01-11 Florida 15 Year Old Shoots Self
Suicide Prozac 1999-05-02 California 15 Year Old Shoots Self
Murder Paxil 2000-03-06 California 15 Year Old Stabs his Grandmother
Unlawful Possession of Gun Zoloft 2008-01-09 Tennessee 15 Year Old Student Brings Gun to School: Other Charges Expected
Arson & Vandalism Paxil 2002-04-13 Michigan 15-year-old Sets Fire & Vandalizes School
Mania & Violence Antidepressants 2008-09-20 Rhode Island 16 Year Old Becomes Worse on Antidepressant: Finally Diagnosed as Bipolar As They All Are
Road Rage Antidepressant 2004-11-09 Minnesota 16 Year Old Boy Causes $45,000 in Damages
Murder-Suicide Antidepressant 2004-03-17 Tennessee 16 Year Old Boy Kills Deputy Sheriff & Himself
Arson Paxil 2008-03-06 Texas 16 Year Old Burns Down High School
Suicide Zoloft 2004-12-31 U.S.A. 16 Year Old Commits Suicide
Suicide Lexapro & Steroids 2004-07-21 Texas 16 Year Old Commits Suicide
Suicide Attempt Zoloft 2009-02-25 Iowa 16 Year Old Girl Attempts Suicide
Suicide Attempt Zoloft 2008-03-19 Australia 16 Year Old Girl Attempts Suicide: Civil Trial Against Doctor Begins
Murder Paxil 2005-01-11 England 16 Year Old Girl Commits Murder: Kills Self in Prison
Suicide Antidepressants 2009-05-25 Ireland 16 Year Old Girl Commits Suicide in 2006: Had Spent Time in Foster Care
Suicide Antidepressant 2008-07-16 California 16 Year Old Girl Commits Suicide: RCC Scholarship Set Up
Suicide by Cop Prozac 1996-11-21 Washington DC 16 Year Old Girl Forces Police to Shoot Her
Missing Teen: 'Amber Alert' Med for Depression 2004-08-19 Indiana 16 Year Old Girl Found Safe & Sound
Suicide Zoloft 2004-02-21 Massachusetts 16 Year Old Girl Hangs Herself
Suicide Antidepressant 2006-09-14 Utah 16 Year Old Girl Hangs Self: Lawsuit
Murder Prozac 2004-05-28 Arkansas 16 Year Old Girl Kills her Father
Suicide Zoloft 2003-03-03 New Jersey 16 Year Old Girl Kills Self
Suicide Prozac & Desipramine 2005-08-12 Washington 16 Year Old Girl Kills Self
Suicide Prozac & Adderall 2008-01-13 New York 16 Year Old Girl Kills Self
Suicide Effexor 2005-04-13 Florida 16 Year Old Girl Kills Self: Documentary On Meds for Kids
Suicide Attempt & Self-Mutilation Paxil 2005-01-16 Texas 16 Year Old Girl Self Mutilates: Also Attempts Suicide
Suicide Lexapro 2008-01-05 Washington 16 Year Old Girl Shoots Self: Lawsuit
Bizarre Behavior Med For Depression 2007-06-07 U.S.A. 16 Year Old Girl Writes the Word "Die" on Wall Using Her Blood
Suicide Celexa* 2005-07-13 Canada 16 Year Old Girl: Coroner's Inquest
Suicide Zoloft 2004-12-01 Kentucky 16 Year Old Girl: Permanent Injuries: Lawsuit
Suicide Celexa 2004-07-25 Florida 16 Year Old Hangs Himself
Inappropriate Behavior Antidepressants 2004-11-13 Texas 16 Year Old Improves When Taken Off All Meds For Depression & Other Psychotropics
Suicide Attempt Zoloft 2000-05-31 Tennessee 16 Year Old In Private Detetion Facility Suffers Permanent Brain Damage in Suicide Attempt
Suicide Prozac 1999-06-15 South Carolina 16 Year Old Kills Himself: Lawsuit
Murder Paxil 2005-03-02 California 16 Year Old Kills his 17 Year Old Brother
Murder Antidepressants 2004-09-30 Pennsylvania 16 Year Old Kills his Mother
Murder Med For Depression 2000-06-20 Louisiana 16 Year Old Kills his Neighbor
Murder-Suicide Antidepressants 2004-09-29 California 16 Year Old Kills Neighbor & Himself
Suicide Paxil & Accutane 2005-05-16 Nebraska 16 Year Old Kills Self
Suicide Zoloft 2001-07-22 Virginia 16 Year Old Kills Self on Zoloft
Suicide Straterra 2008-04-06 Massachusetts 16 Year Old Kills Self Unexpectedly After Starting Straterra for ADHD
Suicide [Lawsuit] Paxil 2008-09-06 Pennsylvania 16 Year Old Kills Self: Judge Strikes Down Pre-Emption Ruling: Lawsuit Moves Forward
Murder Med For Depression 2007-09-05 Virginia 16 Year Old Kills Sister: Attacks Niece
Murder-Suicide Wellbutrin 2004-01-31 Iowa 16 Year Old Kills the Housesitter, His Counselor & Himself
Suicide Antidepressants 1997-06-22 North Carolina 16 Year Old On Antidepressants Kills Self 17 Days After Leaving Hospital
Suicide Attempt Med For Depression 2008-09-10 Australia 16 Year Old Overdoses: Had Heart Attack: Exhibited Bizarre Behavior while on Med
Suicide Paxil WITHDRAWAL* 2005-02-01 Canada 16 Year Old: Paxil Still in Body 2 Months After Discontinuing Drug
Murder Attempt Paxil 2002-07-05 Canada 16-year-old Attacks A Family
Arson Antidepressant 2005-06-29 Tennessee 17 Year Old Accepts Responsibility for Fire
Suicide Attempt Prozac 2005-12-17 Illinois 17 Year Old and Family Sue Lilly
Suicide Attempt Prozac 2005-01-12 New Hampshire 17 Year Old Attempts Suicide
Suicide Attempt Prozac 2006-06-14 New York 17 Year Old Attempts Suicide in Clinical Trial
Murder Zoloft 1997-03-16 Alabama 17 Year Old Commits Murder: Life Sentence
Suicide Antidepressant 2003-01-31 Oregon 17 Year Old Commits Suicide
Suicide Antidepressants 2000-07-30 Florida 17 Year Old Commits Suicide
Suicide Zoloft & Celexa 2003-02-27 Kansas 17 Year Old Commits Suicide on the Internet
Psychosis Antidepressants 2007-05-22 U.S.A. 17 Year Old Driven Crazy by Psych Meds
Suicide Attempt Prozac 1994-01-11 Texas 17 Year Old Girl Attempts Suicide: Joins Group to Petition for Prozac Warning
Suicide Zoloft 2003-07-22 Pennsylvania 17 Year Old Girl Commits Suicide
Suicide Antidepressants 2002-05-22 California 17 Year Old Girl Commits Suicide: Was Suspect in Murder Case
Self-Mutilation & Rage Paxil & Zoloft 2002-12-15 U.S.A. 17 Year Old Girl Exhibits Bizzare Behavior on Meds
Suicide Antidepressants 2006-10-27 England 17 Year Old Girl Hangs Self
Murder Med For Depression Withdrawal 2009-03-10 North Carolina 17 Year Old Girl Kills her Mother
Suicide Lexapro 2004-11-01 Wisconsin 17 Year Old Girl Kills Self
Suicide Med For Depression 2008-06-08 Arizona 17 Year Old Girl Kills Self
Suicide Antidepressant 2008-03-31 Illinois 17 Year Old Girl Kills Self After Restarting Antidepressant
Murder Antidepressant 1996-05-11 Texas 17 Year Old Girl Murders Her Father
Running Away Prozac Withdrawal 2008-10-20 New Hampshire 17 Year Old Girl Runs Away From Home: 2n Time This Happened During a Recent Prozac Withdrawal
Murder-Suicide Attempt Prozac 2007-03-18 Nevada 17 Year Old Girl Shoots Step-Mother
Suicide Wellbutrin 2006-06-14 Indiana 17 Year Old Goes Crazy and Dies
Suicide Lexapro 2003-04-16 New York 17 Year Old Hangs Himself
Suicide Antidepressants 2008-04-04 England 17 Year Old Hangs Himself
Suicide Antidepressants 2008-09-29 Illinois 17 Year Old Hangs Himself
Car Crash Zoloft 2004-02-25 New York 17 Year Old Has Car Crash: Kills Teammate
Suicide Antidepressant 2008-11-02 Colorado 17 Year Old Inmate Has Antidepressants Constantly Switched: Hangs Self
Suicide Paxil 1999-04-01 Utah 17 Year Old Jumps From Freeway Bridge
Suicide Effexor 2000-10-31 Arizona 17 Year Old Jumps In Front Of Train
Murder Wellbutrin Withdrawal 2005-02-16 Colorado 17 Year Old Kills Father: Had Plotted to Kill Parents
Suicide Antidepressants 2005-07-18 Wisconsin 17 Year Old Kills Himself
Suicide Prozac 2004-07-30 Utah 17 Year Old Kills Self
Suicide Prozac 2004-02-26 California 17 Year Old Kills Self in Youth Facility
Suicide Prozac 2008-03-30 New Zealand 17 Year Old Kills Self: Mother Marches For Awareness
Murder Prozac 1999-07-27 Michigan 17 Year Old Murders Driver of Van
Murder Med For Depression 2001-05-18 Florida 17 Year Old Murders her Baby
Murder Paxil* 2002-03-28 Texas 17 Year Old Murders His Friend
Murder Antidepressant WITHDRAWAL 2005-07-02 Washington 17 Year Old Murders School Tennis Coach
Robbery Lexapro 2007-09-23 Oregon 17 Year Old Robs Store with Unloaded Gun
Suicide Prozac 1997-01-03 Montana 17 Year Old Shoots Himself
Murder Med for Depression 2003-02-03 Colorado 17 Year Old Stabs 91 Year Old Former Mayor
Suicidal Thoughts Prozac 2009-06-14 U.S.A. 17 Year Old Starts on Prozac: Then Has Suicidal Thoughts: Peoples Pharmacy
Suicide Med For Depression 2008-03-20 Minnesota 17 Year Old Swim Star Hangs Himself
Suicide Attempt Prozac 2006-01-29 Illinois 17 Year Old Tries to Hang Self
Missing Med For Depression 2008-06-04 Minnesota 17 Year Old's Personality Changed on Med: Massive Search of Mississippi River
Murder Attempt Antidepressants 2002-05-21 Nevada 17-Year-Old Attacks Two Muslim Men
Suicide Prozac* 1994-06-05 Washington 18 Year Old Asphyxiates Himself
Suicide Attempt Antidepressant 2008-01-20 Pennsylvania 18 Year Old Attempts Suicide: Jumps 9 Stories From Building
Suicide Paxil 2004-11-07 England 18 Year Old Begins Self-Mutilation on Paxil: Kills Self
Death Antidepressants 2008-04-21 Canada 18 Year Old Coed Found Dead: Probable Suicide
Murder Prozac 2007-09-13 Alabama 18 Year Old Girl Asks Boyfriend to Kill Another Man
Suicide Med for Depression 2004-11-24 Virginia 18 Year Old Girl Commits Suicide
Suicide Antidepressant 2008-01-20 Scotland 18 Year Old Girl Commits Suicide: Internet Partly Blamed
Death Zoloft 2008-11-05 England 18 Year Old Girl Dies from Anorexia She Developed on Zoloft
Suicide Paxil 2006-03-17 England 18 Year Old Girl Dies; Mother Campaigns
Self-Mutilation Antidepressants 2008-03-03 Wales 18 Year Old Girl Engages in "Cutting" While on Antidepressants
Assault Antidepressant 2008-10-22 England 18 Year Old Girl Injures her Boyfriend in an Assault
Murder-Suicide Prozac 1998-01-06 Texas 18 Year Old Girl Kills Boyfriend & Self
Suicide Lexapro 2007-05-08 Texas 18 Year Old Girl Kills Self: Lawsuit Could Be Decisive
Death Zoloft 2004-11-21 Wisconsin 18 Year Old Goes Berserk: Shot by Police
Suicide Prozac 2000-01-06 Hawaii 18 Year Old Hangs Himself
Suicide Med for Depression 2005-10-08 New York 18 Year Old Hangs Himself
Suicide Zoloft/Strattera 2006-03-17 California 18 Year Old Hangs Self in Hospital
Felony/Thoughts of Murder Antidepressants 2008-08-29 Minnesota 18 Year Old Heart Transplant Patient Commits Felonies & Has Thoughts of Murder
Murder Prozac* 2009-03-08 Pennsylvania 18 Year Old Imprisoned for Murder of Father Has New Evidence Against Prozac
Suicide Lexapro 2003-07-23 Virginia 18 Year Old Jumps to his Death
Death-By-Cop Prozac 2001-10-09 California 18 Year Old Killed by Policeman Forced to Shoot
Murder Wellbutrin 1998-12-02 Michigan 18 Year Old Kills 5 Family Members
Murder-Suicide Antidepressant 2006-07-18 Ohio 18 Year Old Kills Girlfriend, Then Self
Suicide Effexor & Prozac 2005-03-20 Nebraska 18 Year Old Kills Himself
Suicide Wellbutrin [Zyban] WITHDRAWAL* 2003-02-24 England 18 Year Old Kills Himself: Coroner Rules Wellbutrin May Have Been a Factor
Murder Antidepressants 2009-04-19 Oklahoma 18 Year Old Kills his Father
Murder-Suicide Antidepressant WITHDRAWAL 2006-08-23 California 18 Year Old Kills Mother & Self
Murder Prozac 2000-10-04 Alabama 18 Year Old Kills Parents: Injures 3 Siblings
Murder Prozac 2004-01-25 Florida 18 Year Old Kills U. of Florida Research Analyst
Murder Effexor 2003-01-07 Maryland 18 Year Old Murders His Best Friend
Monday, 15 June 2009
Public officials call for major changes in family law
Public officials call for major changes in family law
By Kamika Dunlap
Posted: 06/11/2009 06:54:02 PM PDT
Updated: 06/11/2009 09:03:13 PM PDT
OAKLAND — One by one, parents around the Bay Area are beginning to step forward to share heart-wrenching stories of the injustices they experienced in California's family court system.
These parents have joined with thousands of others statewide to reform the family courts and protect child victims of violence and sexual abuse from judicial decisions the parents say place children in harm's way.
"I'm living proof this is happening today," said Susan, a California Family Court litigant and mother whose daughter was placed with her accused molester.
"The family courts crisis is a plague and it's destroying peoples' lives."
About 58,000 children per year in the U.S. are ordered into unsupervised contact with physically or sexually abusive parents following divorce, according to experts at the Leadership Council on Child Abuse & Interpersonal Violence.
Many people concerned about the systemic problems with family court attended a daylong public forum Thursday at the Alameda County Conference Center.
Some compared the family court crisis to the Catholic Church sexual abuse scandals because of what they call an institutional level of collusion of harm against children.
Event organizers said they hoped the forum would inspire families who have survived traumatic family court ordeals to come forward in order to shed more light on the breakdown of the family court system.
Participants, including family court litigants, child advocates and the general public, gathered to discuss the family court crisis and take a closer look at problems and solutions.
The forum's session featured public testimony by speakers and a panel of legal experts and attorneys who gave free general legal advice about how to best protect themselves in the family court.
The event was organized by the Center for Judicial Excellence in partnership with UC Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law, California Protective Parents Association, Justice for Children, California Safe Child Coalition, Child Abuse Solutions and the Incest Survivors Speakers' Bureau.
Their collective goal was to push to improve the judiciary's public accountability and strengthen and maintain the integrity of the courts.
In addition, the center produced a documentary, Family Court Crisis: Our Children at Risk, and screened a 12-minute clip at the forum.
The American Judges Association found that approximately 70 percent of batterers succeed in convincing authorities that the victims of their abuse are unfit or undeserving of sole custody.
Alameda County Supervisor Gail Steele and actress Nancy Lee Grahn from ABC's "General Hospital" are family court reform advocates and also participated in the panel discussions.
Steele announced a new initiative to help better protect vulnerable children in family court.
It includes her support of the passage of new proposed legislation by Assemblyman Jim Beall, D-San Jose, and Assemblywoman Fiona Ma, D-San Francisco, to reform family court.
Her initiative also calls for the passage of Sen. Mark Leno's request for a legislative audit of Marin and Sacramento Family Courts.
She also is pushing for ombudsman positions to be created in the Alameda County District Attorney's Office, where parents can go for help and to plead their case.
"The system has to change in California and across the country," Steele said.
Grahn did not talk in detail about her $1 million family court battle but said her experience was "maddening and perplexing."
She was upset to learn that some laws were unfair and that some court procedures were abusive and treated children like hostages or assets that need to be divided up.
After a three-year ordeal, Grahn finally gained custody of her 11-year-old daughter.
She now works with community organizations and travels the state to meet with lawmakers and inform them about the about pitfalls of the family law system.
"I met people who were in similar or worse situation
s," Grahn said.
"There are thousands of women who were protective parents and their children were taken away and handed over to their abusers."
For more information visit, www.centerforjudicialexcellence.org
By Kamika Dunlap
Posted: 06/11/2009 06:54:02 PM PDT
Updated: 06/11/2009 09:03:13 PM PDT
OAKLAND — One by one, parents around the Bay Area are beginning to step forward to share heart-wrenching stories of the injustices they experienced in California's family court system.
These parents have joined with thousands of others statewide to reform the family courts and protect child victims of violence and sexual abuse from judicial decisions the parents say place children in harm's way.
"I'm living proof this is happening today," said Susan, a California Family Court litigant and mother whose daughter was placed with her accused molester.
"The family courts crisis is a plague and it's destroying peoples' lives."
About 58,000 children per year in the U.S. are ordered into unsupervised contact with physically or sexually abusive parents following divorce, according to experts at the Leadership Council on Child Abuse & Interpersonal Violence.
Many people concerned about the systemic problems with family court attended a daylong public forum Thursday at the Alameda County Conference Center.
Some compared the family court crisis to the Catholic Church sexual abuse scandals because of what they call an institutional level of collusion of harm against children.
Event organizers said they hoped the forum would inspire families who have survived traumatic family court ordeals to come forward in order to shed more light on the breakdown of the family court system.
Participants, including family court litigants, child advocates and the general public, gathered to discuss the family court crisis and take a closer look at problems and solutions.
The forum's session featured public testimony by speakers and a panel of legal experts and attorneys who gave free general legal advice about how to best protect themselves in the family court.
The event was organized by the Center for Judicial Excellence in partnership with UC Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law, California Protective Parents Association, Justice for Children, California Safe Child Coalition, Child Abuse Solutions and the Incest Survivors Speakers' Bureau.
Their collective goal was to push to improve the judiciary's public accountability and strengthen and maintain the integrity of the courts.
In addition, the center produced a documentary, Family Court Crisis: Our Children at Risk, and screened a 12-minute clip at the forum.
The American Judges Association found that approximately 70 percent of batterers succeed in convincing authorities that the victims of their abuse are unfit or undeserving of sole custody.
Alameda County Supervisor Gail Steele and actress Nancy Lee Grahn from ABC's "General Hospital" are family court reform advocates and also participated in the panel discussions.
Steele announced a new initiative to help better protect vulnerable children in family court.
It includes her support of the passage of new proposed legislation by Assemblyman Jim Beall, D-San Jose, and Assemblywoman Fiona Ma, D-San Francisco, to reform family court.
Her initiative also calls for the passage of Sen. Mark Leno's request for a legislative audit of Marin and Sacramento Family Courts.
She also is pushing for ombudsman positions to be created in the Alameda County District Attorney's Office, where parents can go for help and to plead their case.
"The system has to change in California and across the country," Steele said.
Grahn did not talk in detail about her $1 million family court battle but said her experience was "maddening and perplexing."
She was upset to learn that some laws were unfair and that some court procedures were abusive and treated children like hostages or assets that need to be divided up.
After a three-year ordeal, Grahn finally gained custody of her 11-year-old daughter.
She now works with community organizations and travels the state to meet with lawmakers and inform them about the about pitfalls of the family law system.
"I met people who were in similar or worse situation
s," Grahn said.
"There are thousands of women who were protective parents and their children were taken away and handed over to their abusers."
For more information visit, www.centerforjudicialexcellence.org
SAFELINE doesn't love me any more! (boo hoo!)
"ONE person called you a “drama queen”- and frankly – you are! "
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I don't think I'll be losing much sleep over it, somehow.
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I don't think I'll be losing much sleep over it, somehow.
Thursday, 11 June 2009
DOUBLE STANDARDS - GO ON - BLAME THE "GUTTER" PRESS!
As an survivor of institutional child abuse (Staffordshire Pindown) and a survivor of seven years persecution and harrassment from the inhuman torture chamber secret family courts (to try to force me to give a freemason rapist visitation "rights"), I was very interested to read this newspaper report on Mark Oaten, plus the response, presumably from one of his collegues.
Incidentally, while this was going on, I was being tortured at Stafford County Court! But, you see, not being a well connected politician, and living in the corrupt police state which is Britain, I don't have anyone to argue mine or my family's case, to plead for a little bit of respect and privacy - they pawed over me and my family like a pride of greedy lions.
Also, I have committed no crime. That seems to go against a person these days though, in Nu Nazi Britain!
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Oaten quits over '3-in-bed' rent boy scandal
Last updated at 14:49 22 January 2006
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Mark Oaten
Shame: Mark Oaten
The Liberal Democrats have been plunged into a new crisis after Mark Oaten quit as the party's home affairs spokesman over an affair with a rent boy.
In a statement, the 41-year-old married father-of-two apologised to his family and party for what he described as "errors of judgment" in his personal behaviour, after reporters from a British newspaper confronted him at his Hampshire home with evidence of the relationship.
Mr Oaten was forced to make the humiliating confession that he had a long-running affair with the rent boy - with whom he is alleged to have engaged in three-in-a-bed sex sessions.
Just two weeks ago, Charles Kennedy was forced to quit as the Lib Dem's leader after admitting a long-rumoured drink problem.
According to the paper, Mr Oaten first contacted the unnamed man - then aged 23 - in 2004 through a gay website, and they met regularly over a six month period. On one occasion, a second male prostitute was said to have been involved.
The man told the paper: "Oaten was a regular punter for six months ... He's a very troubled man living a very dangerous double life."
The MP for Winchester last week pulled out of the race to succeed Mr Kennedy, admitting that he lacked sufficient support among MPs to mount a credible leadership bid.
The party's opinion poll ratings plummeted after Mr Kennedy's resignation, and the latest disclosures are unlikely to improve its standing.
Although Mr Oaten's leadership bid ran out of steam, he was regarded as one of the party's rising stars who could have expected to play a prominent role in the frontbench team of Mr Kennedy's successor.
As home affairs spokesman he has enjoyed a high profile in recent months, taking a leading role in the battle over the Government's controversial anti-terrorism legislation.
He sought to underline his credentials as a family man, inviting the cameras into his home on the eve of his leadership bid to film him sitting down for a meal with his wife and children.
Lib Dem leadership contender Chris Huhne said that Mr Oaten's resignation was an "extremely regrettable" loss to the party.
"I think if you are in public life and you are an MP and you take a high profile role, than I'm afraid you are going to be subject to scrutiny," he told BBC1's Sunday AM programme.
"Mark has been very straightforward about this. He has apologised to his constituents, whom he has served very well, his family and I think he needs the time and the privacy to consider things with his family."
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As someone very close to both Bellinda and Mark I feel deeply saddened. Mark knows and realises the extent of what he has done - he has to live with this for the rest of his life - whatever that may be in the future. He is a devoted father to his children and I know he adores Belinda. He has not done anything illegal, but morally he has made a huge mistake. People are judging him on what the papers say and not the person they know.
Belinda needs all the help she can get in coming to terms with this and the strength to carry on with her life and to care for her children.
They now need to be left alone to build the necessary bridges and for the sake of their children be able to rebuild their lives. By the papers and news constantly talking about it, it will not help.
The buzz word "respect" - what chance does anybody have of learning to respect when the gutter press have to print a story such as this in such detail.
The paper has not respected Belinda or their children.
- Anonymous, Hampshire, 24/1/2006 10:40
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Incidentally, while this was going on, I was being tortured at Stafford County Court! But, you see, not being a well connected politician, and living in the corrupt police state which is Britain, I don't have anyone to argue mine or my family's case, to plead for a little bit of respect and privacy - they pawed over me and my family like a pride of greedy lions.
Also, I have committed no crime. That seems to go against a person these days though, in Nu Nazi Britain!
*************************************************
Oaten quits over '3-in-bed' rent boy scandal
Last updated at 14:49 22 January 2006
* Comments (65)
* Add to My Stories
Mark Oaten
Shame: Mark Oaten
The Liberal Democrats have been plunged into a new crisis after Mark Oaten quit as the party's home affairs spokesman over an affair with a rent boy.
In a statement, the 41-year-old married father-of-two apologised to his family and party for what he described as "errors of judgment" in his personal behaviour, after reporters from a British newspaper confronted him at his Hampshire home with evidence of the relationship.
Mr Oaten was forced to make the humiliating confession that he had a long-running affair with the rent boy - with whom he is alleged to have engaged in three-in-a-bed sex sessions.
Just two weeks ago, Charles Kennedy was forced to quit as the Lib Dem's leader after admitting a long-rumoured drink problem.
According to the paper, Mr Oaten first contacted the unnamed man - then aged 23 - in 2004 through a gay website, and they met regularly over a six month period. On one occasion, a second male prostitute was said to have been involved.
The man told the paper: "Oaten was a regular punter for six months ... He's a very troubled man living a very dangerous double life."
The MP for Winchester last week pulled out of the race to succeed Mr Kennedy, admitting that he lacked sufficient support among MPs to mount a credible leadership bid.
The party's opinion poll ratings plummeted after Mr Kennedy's resignation, and the latest disclosures are unlikely to improve its standing.
Although Mr Oaten's leadership bid ran out of steam, he was regarded as one of the party's rising stars who could have expected to play a prominent role in the frontbench team of Mr Kennedy's successor.
As home affairs spokesman he has enjoyed a high profile in recent months, taking a leading role in the battle over the Government's controversial anti-terrorism legislation.
He sought to underline his credentials as a family man, inviting the cameras into his home on the eve of his leadership bid to film him sitting down for a meal with his wife and children.
Lib Dem leadership contender Chris Huhne said that Mr Oaten's resignation was an "extremely regrettable" loss to the party.
"I think if you are in public life and you are an MP and you take a high profile role, than I'm afraid you are going to be subject to scrutiny," he told BBC1's Sunday AM programme.
"Mark has been very straightforward about this. He has apologised to his constituents, whom he has served very well, his family and I think he needs the time and the privacy to consider things with his family."
*************************************
As someone very close to both Bellinda and Mark I feel deeply saddened. Mark knows and realises the extent of what he has done - he has to live with this for the rest of his life - whatever that may be in the future. He is a devoted father to his children and I know he adores Belinda. He has not done anything illegal, but morally he has made a huge mistake. People are judging him on what the papers say and not the person they know.
Belinda needs all the help she can get in coming to terms with this and the strength to carry on with her life and to care for her children.
They now need to be left alone to build the necessary bridges and for the sake of their children be able to rebuild their lives. By the papers and news constantly talking about it, it will not help.
The buzz word "respect" - what chance does anybody have of learning to respect when the gutter press have to print a story such as this in such detail.
The paper has not respected Belinda or their children.
- Anonymous, Hampshire, 24/1/2006 10:40
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Prayer - Dear God, please reveal the truth
Avon & Somerset Chief Constable Colin Port 'ruling by decree'
category south west | policing | news report author Wednesday August 13, 2008 17:56author by Tony Gosling Report this post to the editors
Southwest One
The regional ITV and BBC newsrooms have been buzzing over the last two months with threatening legal letters from lawyers Carter Ruck, all paid for with public money and attempting to gag the press from criticising Somerset County Council, Chief Constable Colin Port and his wife Susan Barnes. Both are party to what must be the dodgyest PPP privatisation contract ever signed in the UK.
Avon & Somerset police's 'corrupt' Chief Constable Colin Port
Avon & Somerset police's 'corrupt' Chief Constable Colin Port
Under a freedom of information request it has just been disclosed that £90,000 of public money was paid by Chief Constable Colin Port to lawyers Carter Ruck in an attempt to stop Bristol's TV and Radio stations reporting on the IBM/Southwest One contract in which he and his wife had a direct interest. His wife Sue Barnes has been paid £200,000 in salary and fees alone as part of the deal.
Initially Bridgewater's plucky Tory MP Ian Liddell-Grainger used parliamentary privilege to kick up a fuss about the SouthWest One contract in the House of Commons and he appears to now be having a running battle with various grey-faced officials which can be followed on his blog. They are trying to cover up all details of this bent contract.
Meanwhile gagging order emails have been issued over the same period from Colin Port's Portishead HQ to all lower ranking and senior officers in Avon and Somerset constabulary warning officers not to speak to anyone at BBC Broadcasting House, Whiteladies Road. This followed BBC Crime Correspondant Steve Brodie's reporting of allegations of Colin Port's corruption which were made by Ian Liddell-Grainger MP in the House of Commons under parliamentary privilege. Brodie and the BBC being 'punished' by Port simply for doing their job. Port is using public money to save his crashing credibility as for him the public purse is a limitless pot into which he can dip in a vain attempt to gag the press. This has, according to sources at the BBC, 'seriously affected our crime reporting in the region'.
Senior officers of Inspector level and above in Avon and Somerset police are 'exasperated' that they are being sporadically banned from speaking to local press about important matters, under threat of disciplinary action, because of what one officer called a 'personal spat' between Colin Port and local broadcasters.
In the last two weeks Colin Port's attention has switched to ITV West who, on July 24th 2008, transmitted an electrifying West Eye View investigative documentary entitled Public Service, Private Gain. ITV-West's reporting of all crime issues in the region has now been 'severely curtailed', again due to emails issued by Colin Port's office in Porishead.
The Bristol Evening Post appears to have taken the part of the 'corrupt' Chief Constable in this and has been chillingly silent on the region's biggest public interest scandal over the last six months, preferring to let crucial pieces of evidence of Port's corruption slip out unnoticed in the final paragraphs of innocent looking articles with bland headlines which are quickly removed from the Evening Post's website. Editor Mike Norton is spending his valuable time instead, identifying NUJ officials and activists and getting them 'constructively dismissed'.
How long can Avon & Somerset's Chief Constable continue in his six figure public office job when his own malfeasance in office has been exposed? Signing a 'corrupt' contract with a Nazi Holocaust corporation which personally benefits his wife? Also considering the fact that he has neither the confidence of his senior and middle ranking officers nor of the local media and is running the force as if he were the Sherriff of Nottingham, and Avon & Somerset his private fiefdom?
To watch the West Eye View documentary see also
http://www.itvlocal.com/west/programmes/
and click on
West Eye View
Public Service, Private Gain.
Ian Liddell-Grainger's blog - Roger Kershaw and Alan Jones have, once again, conspired to prevent me seeing the relevant parts of the SouthWest One contract. But this time Kershaw was stupid enough to send written proof of the cover-up.
http://www.liddellgrainger.org.uk/ian/MOGGTHEBLOGISBACK....html
http://www.liddellgrainger.org.uk/ian/COVER-UPEVIDENCE.html
http://www.liddellgrainger.org.uk/ian/SOUTHWESTONE.html
Holocaust Engineers now control Avon & Somerset Police Support Services
http://bristol.indymedia.org/article/688090
Wife of Avon & Somerset Police Chief bags privatised force job
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/03/395009.html
Documentary on IBM £400m deal - a summary
http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/tony_collins/2008/0....html
Malfeasance in public office
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malfeasance_in_office
Related Link: http://www.itvlocal.com/west/programmes/
Colin Port's wife Sue Barnes who has already benefited to the tune of £200k
Colin Port's wife Sue Barnes who has already benefited to the tune of £200k
category south west | policing | news report author Wednesday August 13, 2008 17:56author by Tony Gosling Report this post to the editors
Southwest One
The regional ITV and BBC newsrooms have been buzzing over the last two months with threatening legal letters from lawyers Carter Ruck, all paid for with public money and attempting to gag the press from criticising Somerset County Council, Chief Constable Colin Port and his wife Susan Barnes. Both are party to what must be the dodgyest PPP privatisation contract ever signed in the UK.
Avon & Somerset police's 'corrupt' Chief Constable Colin Port
Avon & Somerset police's 'corrupt' Chief Constable Colin Port
Under a freedom of information request it has just been disclosed that £90,000 of public money was paid by Chief Constable Colin Port to lawyers Carter Ruck in an attempt to stop Bristol's TV and Radio stations reporting on the IBM/Southwest One contract in which he and his wife had a direct interest. His wife Sue Barnes has been paid £200,000 in salary and fees alone as part of the deal.
Initially Bridgewater's plucky Tory MP Ian Liddell-Grainger used parliamentary privilege to kick up a fuss about the SouthWest One contract in the House of Commons and he appears to now be having a running battle with various grey-faced officials which can be followed on his blog. They are trying to cover up all details of this bent contract.
Meanwhile gagging order emails have been issued over the same period from Colin Port's Portishead HQ to all lower ranking and senior officers in Avon and Somerset constabulary warning officers not to speak to anyone at BBC Broadcasting House, Whiteladies Road. This followed BBC Crime Correspondant Steve Brodie's reporting of allegations of Colin Port's corruption which were made by Ian Liddell-Grainger MP in the House of Commons under parliamentary privilege. Brodie and the BBC being 'punished' by Port simply for doing their job. Port is using public money to save his crashing credibility as for him the public purse is a limitless pot into which he can dip in a vain attempt to gag the press. This has, according to sources at the BBC, 'seriously affected our crime reporting in the region'.
Senior officers of Inspector level and above in Avon and Somerset police are 'exasperated' that they are being sporadically banned from speaking to local press about important matters, under threat of disciplinary action, because of what one officer called a 'personal spat' between Colin Port and local broadcasters.
In the last two weeks Colin Port's attention has switched to ITV West who, on July 24th 2008, transmitted an electrifying West Eye View investigative documentary entitled Public Service, Private Gain. ITV-West's reporting of all crime issues in the region has now been 'severely curtailed', again due to emails issued by Colin Port's office in Porishead.
The Bristol Evening Post appears to have taken the part of the 'corrupt' Chief Constable in this and has been chillingly silent on the region's biggest public interest scandal over the last six months, preferring to let crucial pieces of evidence of Port's corruption slip out unnoticed in the final paragraphs of innocent looking articles with bland headlines which are quickly removed from the Evening Post's website. Editor Mike Norton is spending his valuable time instead, identifying NUJ officials and activists and getting them 'constructively dismissed'.
How long can Avon & Somerset's Chief Constable continue in his six figure public office job when his own malfeasance in office has been exposed? Signing a 'corrupt' contract with a Nazi Holocaust corporation which personally benefits his wife? Also considering the fact that he has neither the confidence of his senior and middle ranking officers nor of the local media and is running the force as if he were the Sherriff of Nottingham, and Avon & Somerset his private fiefdom?
To watch the West Eye View documentary see also
http://www.itvlocal.com/west/programmes/
and click on
West Eye View
Public Service, Private Gain.
Ian Liddell-Grainger's blog - Roger Kershaw and Alan Jones have, once again, conspired to prevent me seeing the relevant parts of the SouthWest One contract. But this time Kershaw was stupid enough to send written proof of the cover-up.
http://www.liddellgrainger.org.uk/ian/MOGGTHEBLOGISBACK....html
http://www.liddellgrainger.org.uk/ian/COVER-UPEVIDENCE.html
http://www.liddellgrainger.org.uk/ian/SOUTHWESTONE.html
Holocaust Engineers now control Avon & Somerset Police Support Services
http://bristol.indymedia.org/article/688090
Wife of Avon & Somerset Police Chief bags privatised force job
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/03/395009.html
Documentary on IBM £400m deal - a summary
http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/tony_collins/2008/0....html
Malfeasance in public office
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malfeasance_in_office
Related Link: http://www.itvlocal.com/west/programmes/
Colin Port's wife Sue Barnes who has already benefited to the tune of £200k
Colin Port's wife Sue Barnes who has already benefited to the tune of £200k
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