Friend,

With Prozac back in the news, I have to comment on my own
experience as a chemist...Please share to your email list.

When I worked for the drug giant as a young chemist, Prozac (fluoxetine)
was being marketed as a "happy pill." Eli Lilly developed it in the 1970s.
Newsweek hailed it as "a breakthrough drug for depression." Sales raked in
enough profit to solve world hunger for a hundred years. I thought it was
ridiculous. "Breakthrough" for depression?

"Is it going to be better than Mountain Dew and oatmeal cream pies when it
comes to taking the edge off a depressing day?" I wondered.
Heck, will it beat a thickly rolled joint from a Volkswagen-loving
hippie? What about party drugs? My college roommates were happy on those.
Nobody called 'em a "breakthrough," just awesome. Why would we need
antidepressants?

There's no question that major depression brings suffering. Depression can
make life feel unbearable, crippling willpower, productivity, and
responsibility. But are prescription drugs really the answer to this
problem?

Fortunately, I didn't have to try antidepressants to know they weren't
going to help, because in-house studies proved they didn't work. Astute
doctors followed the research trail as well. In Your Drug May Be Your
Problem, Harvard-trained psychiatrist Peter Breggin, MD, showed that
antidepressants were no more effective than dummy (sugar) pills in his
clinical trials. To his dismay, he also discovered that antidepressants can
actually push depressed people further over the edge.

Furthermore, a landmark review published in 2009 in the Journal of the
American Medical Association found that, in many cases, antidepressants are
no better than placebos at halting depression. Those results were
duplicated the following year. And Harvard scientists concluded through
their own studies that "the difference between the effect of a placebo and
the effect of an antidepressant is minimal for most people."

In response, Big Pharma buried the detrimental findings in an avalanche of
false advertising. This marketing triumph played out like the tobacco
conspiracy and was well documented in David Healy's Let Them Eat Prozac:
The Unhealthy Relationship between the Pharmaceutical Industry and
Depression.

Yet antidepressant sales are still soaring.

Since the late 1980s, antidepressant use has skyrocketed almost 400
percent. Today, one in ten Americans is on some type of antidepressant.

This swell in prescribing habits is driven by the theory of a chemical
imbalance, which antidepressants aim to correct. Psychiatrists believe that
depressed people have brain chemicals that are disproportionate to one
another—as if the brain is somehow low in happy neurotransmitters and
high in stressful ones.

This theory was born from the imagination of doctors in the 1950s. But the
science isn't there. Marcia Angell, MD, former editor of the New England
Journal of Medicine, wrote that "after decades trying to prove [the
chemical imbalance theory], researchers have still come up empty-handed."

If the ineffectiveness of antidepressants doesn't deter you, perhaps
antidepressants' side effects will. According to the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA), antidepressants can cause suicidal thoughts and
behavior, worsening depression, anxiety, panic attacks, insomnia, irrita-
bility, hostility, impulsivity, aggression, psychotic episodes, and
violence.

Physical side effects include abnormal bleeding, birth defects, heart
attack, seizures, and sudden death. More than one hundred seventy drug
regulatory warnings and studies have been issued on antidepressants to
sound the alarm about these side effects.

The Hidden Side Effect

Prozac was the first selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI). The
first clinical tests were performed on dogs and cats. Every trial showed
aggression among normally calm and friendly animals, demonstrated by
increased hissing and growling. When the animals were taken off the drug,
they returned to their baseline friendly behavior. This was hidden form the
FDA.

By mid-1978, more than four thousand human subjects had been tested, and
aggression was also observed. Alarmingly, the study allowed for voluntary
dropout, and clinical investigators were permitted to administer sedatives
to patients who became aggravated. These loopholes helped Big Pharma
further conceal the drug's risks from the FDA.

As research continued, it was discovered that Prozac had the unique ability
to induce a phenomenon known as activation. This is the side-effect Big
Pharma doesn't want you to know about. Activation is characterized by a
surge of energy that manifests into acts of aggression like suicide and
murder.

The consequences of antidepressant-induced activation first became a
reality to the public when a Kentucky man with no prior history of violence
went on a shooting rampage under the Prozac spell while at work. He killed
eight and wounded twelve. Allegedly, he was unhappy with his printer.
Earlier, he'd complained to his doctor that the drug was making him
agitated. He was prescribed a bigger dose.

This scenario is happening across the country in our school, theaters
and court houses.

The mind is a terrible thing to waste. And quite frankly, if I'm going to
lose brain cells, it better be at a party in Vegas, not through the use of
drugs that come with ruinous consequences.

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Dare to live young,

The People's Chemist
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