Antidepressants: for women? And children? FDA approves dangerous.

The following article, dated March 13, 2009, comes from the Health Sciences Institute (HSI) newsletter, written by Michele Cagan.

The Journal of the American College of Cardiology is about to publish a new study that links antidepressants with sudden cardiac death in women. Does the mainstream medical community take notice, and think twice about recommending these drugs? No.

Instead, the researchers stated "the finding doesn't necessarily mean that antidepressant drugs are dangerous." Apparently, sudden cardiac death is not a "dangerous" side effect.

Antidepressants for children? It seems to me that normal kids have ups and downs and only need to be nourished with fresh, organic foods to be perfectly able to deal with them. But that is not the idea of the pharmaceutical industry.

As it turns out, Michele Cagan writes that hardly a month after the U.S. Department of Justice sued Forest Labs, manufacturers of the blockbuster suicide-inducing antidepressant Lexapro[R] for illegally marketing the drug for children when it was not approved for use in children, the FDA approved this highly dangerous drug for use in children!

The danger of death by antidepressants is widely known. On the Forest Labs' own Lexapro website, this warning appears: Antidepressants increased the risk compared to placebo of suicidal thinking and behavior (suicidality) in children, adolescents, and young adults in short-term studies of major depressive disorders and other psychiatric disorders.

Further, Michele Cagan states: "If your child is depressed, Lexapro could send him/ her over the edge to suicide. If your doctor recommends this dangerous drug for your child, walk out of his office and find a new doctor.

Editor's note: This article is particularly disturbing because Congress already funded mandatory psychological testing for children and pregnant women, and may require anti-psychotic drugs for those deemed "at risk." SSRI antidepressant drugs, such as Lexapro and Prozac, were banned in the UK for use on children under 18 some years ago due to the sharply increased risk of suicidal behavior in children, among other dangerous side-effects.