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SSDIs and Suicide

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I . Authors : Robert Fritz , Tom Woodward and Vera Sharav

Credentials : Fritz and Woodward are parents of teens who committed suicide after initial treatment with Zoloft . Sharav is a resident of the Alliance for Human Research Protection who corroborated testimony with medical field reviews

II . Title : Testimony before the Food and Drug Administration Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee and the Pediatric Subcommittee of the Anti-Infective Drugs Advisory Committee

III . Thesis : The testimony consisted of the viewpoints of

three witnesses before the US Food and Drug Administration on February 2 2004 . They each argue that antidepressants increase the risk and occurrence of teen suicide and that the FDA has not adequately publicized the risk or ed recommendation for warnings to families because they do not want to alienate U .S . drug companies

IV . Problem : The problem is that teenagers are committing suicide because of the SSDIs they were prescribed without warning of the potential danger . Both Fritz and Woodward had teenage daughter 's that hung themselves

V . Causes : The cause of the problem is the inadequate or lack of information provided to families when their children are prescribed these medications and the FDA knew the risk (Proof - Harvard studies and failed FDA trials ) The FDA seems to have the interests of the drug companies at heart instead of the public (Proof - Amt given to Republican party by drug companies - why

VI . Solution : No specific solutions were given outside of the demand that...