With AOL turning off Usenet access due to lack of interest it looks as if Usenet is gradually fading into obscurity. I find it somewhat useful for the technical forums it provides, but other than that it seems to me to be and to have always been a big waste of time. So personally I won't miss it's final demise, which will most likely be with a whimper and not a bang.
It never fails to amaze me when nobody finds it strange that someone who has been seeing psychiatrists for years ends up doing something horrendous. There is no outcry, no headlines screaming "Psychiatrists under investigation after patient kills 11 people."
If people thought logically then the train of thought would go like this: Psychiatrists claim to be mental health experts. An expert in some field is someone who knows all about the field and can get a successful result in the field. Therefore if psychiatrists are experts they should get a result in the field of mental health. So how come this guy, who has been seeing psychs for years, ends up killing 11 people?
The answer is that they are not experts, they are frauds. Andrea Yates is one terrible example of the real results that psychiatrists produce, another is Juan Manuel Alvarez who just killed 11 people when he parked his car on the railway tracks in an attempted suicide and then chickened out at the last minute, leaving his car on the tracks so a train could smash into it. Sure, he'll probably get the death penalty, but what about the psychiatrists who have been getting paid to "help" him over the years? They should be in the doc with him, sharing the responsibility for this horrible crime.
Story: California Train Wreck Caused by Man With History of Mental Problems
I just came across an excellent blog: Prozac Causes Depression. It is full of great articles including many on the current revelations about Eli Lilly hiding, for 16 years, the fact that they knew their "wonder drug" Prozac causes violence and suicide.
While I was busy pointing you to the latest news on the Tsunami relief efforts, some interesting things have been happening in the psychiatric field. It's good news for the consumer and bad news for Eli Lilly and its psychiatric drug pushers: Prozac: A class action lawsuit is filed in Montreal
Positive news from Indonesia, India and Sri Lanka: Asian Disaster Relief - Scientology Volunteer Ministers (VMs) Update - Wednesday 12 January 2005
Here are all the Volunteer Minister Field Reports from the VMs on the ground in the disaster areas: Tsunami Aid and Disaster Relief News - Scientology Volunteer Ministers
In India, Thailand and Sri Lanka, the task of the Volunteer Ministers (VMs) is shifting over from handling the devastation and ministering to those in shock, to assisting the survivors to rebuild their communities.
In Indonesia, the VMs are continuing to deal with the remains of the victims while ministering assists to those who survived.
More News: Asian Disaster Relief - Scientology Volunteer Ministers (VMs) Update - Tuesday 11 January 2005.
More Volunteer Ministers (VMs) have arrived over the last few days in Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka and Thailand: Asian Disaster Relief - Scientology Volunteer Ministers (VMs) Update - Monday 10 January 2005.
The Church of Scientology is calling its thousands of volunteers to help bring aid to the four major disaster areas of Indonesia, Thailand, India and Sri Lanka as part of ongoing relief efforts for victims of the worst Tsunami in recorded history. Full Story: Church of Scientology calls for tsunami relief
The rotary club has been working in the Tamil Nad region in co-ordination with the members of the Scientology Volunteer Ministers Relief effort. This team of volunteers are specialists in Disaster relief, emotional impact assessment and trauma relief counseling and training. Full Story: Rotary International President Welcomes Scientology Tsunami Relief Team
On Thursday the German/Italian Scientology Volunteer Minister team arrived and set up in Sri Lanka. Yesterday their team headed to the south of Sri Lanka between Galle and Matara to set up disaster relief operations there. .. more: Tsunami Aid and Disaster Relief News - Scientology Volunteer Ministers
Latest news of relief efforts from the tsunami disaster zone in Indonesia and India: Tsunami Aid and Disaster Relief News - Scientology Volunteer Ministers
Latest news of relief efforts from the tsunami disaster zone in Indonesia and Thailand: Tsunami Aid and Disaster Relief News - Scientology Volunteer Ministers
Latest news of relief efforts from the tsunami disaster zone in Indonesia, Thailand, India and Sri Lanka : Tsunami Aid and Disaster Relief News - Scientology Volunteer Ministers
The Scientology Volunteer Ministers website has gathered some links to stories of successfully located family members and some miraculous escapes and tales of survival: Tsunami Aid and Disaster Relief News - Scientology Volunteer Ministers. Scroll to the "January 4, 2005: Good News Section".
Here is a composite of field reports from the Volunteer Ministers (VMs) of the various Churches of Scientology, who are on the ground working with the rescue services in a number of areas hardest-hit by the tsunami:
Asian Disaster Relief - Volunteer Ministers Update - Monday 3, January 2005
The British Medical Journal recently came into possession of internal Eli Lilly documents showing that as early as 1988 the company knew that it's "wonder" drug, Prozac, caused violence and suicide. Yet Lilly executives knowingly suppressed this information and have thus caused thousands of deaths.
Ann Blake-Tracy, PhD, Executive Director of the International Coalition For Drug Awareness has been an outspoken opponent of the use of Prozac type drugs for many years. Here is her response to the BMJ article and release of the documents:
After testifying as an expert witness in criminal cases involving SSRI antidepressants for 13 years, I am very grateful for your article.
The fact remains that over the past five decades mainstream medical research on serotonin has supported the fact that when serotonin reuptake is inhibited the end result will be mania/psychosis, severe loss of memory, horrifying nightmares, tension and anxiety that appear from nowhere, cravings for alcohol and other drugs, impulsive behavior with no concern for punishment, including impulsive murder or suicide, violent crime, road rage, argumentative behavior, etc.
For 15 years I have warned that all of these reactions should be expected with the SSRI antidepressants because their mode of action is inhibition of the reuptake of serotonin. This new information from the BMJ on what Lilly knew about Prozac and when they knew it only backs up all of this existing research.
This is research that was available for anyone to read over the past five decades. So, I want to know - why did no one in a position of authority read that research BEFORE these drugs were approved?
I have never doubted that the manufacturer of each SSRI antidepressant knew their drugs would produce these results. They could not have missed it. And it was only a matter of time before it surfaced. My only remaining question has been, "How many would die before this information surfaced?"
Clearly this is an international tragedy and I am convinced that as we count the dead and damaged stemming from the use of these antidepressants all will be in shock.
Ann Blake Tracy, Ph.D.,
Executive Director, International Coalition For Drug Awareness
Website: www.drugawareness.org
Author: Prozac: Panacea or Pandora? - Our Serotonin Nightmare
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Sometimes it gives one pleasure to be able to say "I told you so" but in this case - with so many deaths and destroyed lives - it gives me none at all. For 16 years Citizen's Commission On Human Rights has been saying that Prozac and the other SSRI drugs cause violence and suicide. For 16 years the drug companies have been denying it. However, slowly but surely, the evidence that the drug companies themselves had all the time is trickling out. First it was the revelation from the clinical trial results hidden for years by GlaxoSmithKline that their wonder drug Paxil (Seroxat outside the US) caused suicide in children and had no beneficial effect at all. Other revelations followed, and now comes the news that documents from Eli Lilly & Co. itself have surfaced after 10 years linking Prozac to violence and suicide.
It comes as a bitter victory to those of us who have been saying this for so very long.
Lilly Documents Link Prozac to Violence, Medical Journal Says
