FDA Warning Confirms ADHD Drugs Cause Sudden Death, Heart Attack and Strokes ...

Thanks so much to Ms Drew for this article. Unfortunately for the
world, the Quackwatch and Healthfraud teams have been filling various
media with Propaganda for the Pharma Industry who makes billions off
of these drugs.

They even pay disbarred attorneys and MD's who were never allowed non
restricted licenses to promulgate their disinformation. These say
flacks have spread disinformation about the breast implant issue also.



http://mental-health.press-world.com...d-strokes.html

09/10/2006
FDA Warning Confirms ADHD Drugs Cause Sudden Death, Heart Attack and
Strokes
Despite vested interests in the mental health industry continuously
downplaying the documented risks of ADHD drugs, the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) has finally agreed that the public has the right
to know the drugs' deadly risks.



The FDA has ordered that the labeling of ADHD drugs include a warning
that the drugs can cause suppression of growth, psychosis, aggression
and serious cardiovascular side effects. The warnings came in the wake
of an international grassroots movement of doctors, medical personnel,
human rights activists, and parents who have long fought for full
disclosure of the documented risks of the drugs by testifying before
state and federal legislators and drug regulatory agencies, as well as
speaking out in the national media.



In it's August 22 article, "FDA Orders Strong Warning on Stimulants,"
the New York Times reports that this recent warning "significantly
strengthen[s] the risk information already on these drugs. The
warnings state in part, 'Sudden deaths, strokes and myocardial
infarction have been reported in adults taking stimulant drugs at
usual doses.'" These warnings caution about an increased risk of
strokes and heart attacks and "come after scattered reports of
children dropping dead suddenly while taking the drugs."



Steven Nissen, president of the American College of Cardiology and
chairman of cardiology at the Cleveland Clinic is quoted in the
article: "It's a very strong warning. It's appropriately worded. It
basically lets physicians and patients know that these drugs to have
serious cardiovascular side effects."



In February, an FDA advisory committee strongly recommended that the
FDA require all ADHD drugs come with a black box warning, the FDA's
strictest warning, exposing the risk of drug-induced heart attack,
stroke and sudden death. In March, a different committee convened and
recommended additional warnings about psychological side effects.



Earlier this year, Australia launched an urgent investigation into the
safety of ADHD drugs following 400 adverse reactions involving
children as young as three. The United Nations' Committee on the
Rights of the Child reported in September 2005 that it was concerned
that ADHD and ADD "are being misdiagnosed and therefore
psycho-stimulant drugs are being over-prescribed, despite the growing
evidence of the harmful effects of these drugs." In the last year
alone, there have been ten international warnings that ADHD drugs can
cause suicide, psychosis, hallucinations and mania. Four of these
warnings specifically address the potentially fatal cardiovascular
risks of ADHD drugs.



12 international warnings have been issued on the dangers of
antidepressants, which include suicide, addiction, homicidal ideation,
liver damage and heart attacks. Five of these international warnings
on antidepressants warn about the risks to pregnant women and their
newborn babies. They show the risks of taking antidepressants during
pregnancy are drug dependence for the mother as well as birth defects,
heart malformation or a fatal lung condition in the newborn.



To see more about the deadly effects of psychiatric drugs prescribed
to millions of children, read the Report on the Escalating
International Warnings on Psychiatric Drugs, published by the
Citizen's Commission on Human Rights, a psychiatric watchdog group
established by the Church of Scientology.

A warning doesn't confirm that ADHD drugs cause sudden death, heart attack
or strokes. All it does is warn that these side effects are possible.

Jeff