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According to the
Indianapolis Star, Azar "takes over the Lilly post as seven states are suing
the company, alleging that it promoted off label uses for Zyprexa, its top
selling drug approved for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
"Like other pharmaceutical companies," the Star points out, "Lilly also
faces an array of public policy challenges, including criticism that it is
too cozy with doctors and regulators."
There is one positive to be noted, at least Troy and Azar are no longer
pretending to be protectors of the public health.
Experts say the suicidality risk applies to all SSRI users. "The simple
truth is that antidepressants cause suicide in all age groups," according to
psychiatrist, Dr Peter Breggin, a court-certified expert on SSRIs, and
author of "The Anti-Depressant Fact Book."
"Dragged kicking and screaming into admitting that children and now young
adults are at risk for antidepressant-induced suicidality," he says, "the
FDA continues to evade reality."
"If the relatively insensitive drug-company rigged short clinical trials
pick up suicidality in any age group," Dr Breggin says, "it's almost a
certainty that they are causing actual suicides in all ages."
Many other experts agree that safety decisions should not be based on drug
maker studies. "The fundamental problem continues to be that the FDA is
basing their decisions on studies that are designed and paid for by the very
companies that make these drugs," said Dr Timothy Scott, author of, "America
Fooled: The Truth about Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been
Deceived."
"It is a case," he says, "of the fox guarding the chicken house."
"The research designs used by these studies," he notes, "are incredibly
unfair and yet the FDA is allowing this system to continue."
"Dishonest research designs," Dr Scott says, "do not give an honest
assessment of the physical or the psychological dangers of long-term
antidepressant use."
"Independent research investigations," he states, "repeatedly find adverse
events are much, much higher than the rates reported in the studies
submitted to the FDA by the drug manufacturers."
For over a decade and a half, Attorney Menzies points out, SSRI makers have
enjoyed enormous financial benefits from their manipulations of the clinical
trial data and the FDA continues to ignore all evidence aside from data
provided by the drug companies. "The FDA is ignoring," she says,
"independent analyses conducted by scientists in the field, as well as
historical and foreign regulatory actions dating back over 20 years."
Ms Menzies states that clinical trial data from before SSRIs were even
approved, signaled the suicidality risk. Documents obtained in litigation
show that as early as 1984, Eli Lilly was aware of an increased risk of
suicidality with Prozac.
Attorney Menzies calls the
FDA's statement that "scientific data does not show an increased risk in
adults older than 24, and that adults ages 65 and older taking
antidepressants have a decreased risk of suicidality," "extremely
misleading."
"Rather than accurately informing the public that suicidality can occur in
some people at any age," she notes, "this new warning gives the false
perception that certain age groups are entirely safe while others are not. I
know for a fact from my review of internal drug company documents that that
is not true," she says.
Critics also find this statement disturbing in light of other independent
studies, including a study reported in the May 1, 2006, London Free Press,
conducted at the Toronto's Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, that
identified suicides among older Ontarians, 66 and up, and found that for
patients who were prescribed antidepressants in the 6 months before their
deaths, the risk of suicide in the first month for those taking SSRIs was
nearly 5 times higher than for seniors taking older antidepressants called
tricyclics such as Elavil.
Other experts also object to the piecemeal addition of SSRI warnings. "When
the FDA ordered a black box warning for only those 18 and under, it defied
common sense that as soon as one turned 19, one was safe," says Dr Bruce
Levine, PhD, Clinical Psychologist, author of "STAR*D Wars: The Corruption
of the National Institute of Mental Health and the Failure of
Antidepressants."
"And now that the warning will extend until 24," Dr Levine adds, "it defies
common sense that one becomes safe on one's 25th birthday."
"While some people report antidepressants have benefited them," he notes,
"legitimate science shows that these antidepressants are no more helpful for
depression than a placebo or no treatment at all."
According to a study analyzing clinical trials submitted to the FDA for drug
approval, the efficacy data submitted to the FDA for the six most widely
prescribed antidepressants approved between 1987 and 1999, "the
pharmacological effects of antidepressants are clinically negligible." The
Emperor's New Drugs: An Analysis of Antidepressant Medication Data Submitted
to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration by Irving Kirsch, Thomas J. Moore,
Alan Scorboria and Sarah S. Nicholls.
According to Kirsch, "[a]lthough antidepressant medication is widely
regarded as efficacious, a recent meta-analysis of published clinical trials
indicates that 75 percent of the response to antidepressants is duplicated
by placebo." Kirsch & Sapirstein, G. (1998). Listening to Prozac but hearing
placebo: A meta analysis of antidepressant medication.
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