This segment is about suicide and homicide as known side effects of SSRIs (and some other psychiatric drugs). I start out by outlining a recent local mass shooting and compare it to a 1989 Louisville shooting involving Joseph Wesbecker in which the Wesbecker family later agreed to settle with Eli Lilly and intentionally present a weak case (unbeknownst to the judge and not publicly reported for several years after the fact). Dr. Healy talks about this case and several others he has served giving expert testimony on. Together, we reveal that suicide and homicide are known side effects of these drugs, and the pharmaceutical companies that made them became aware of this in the SSRI clinical trials in the 1980's and 1990's.
For practitioners in our position, we're told and taught that this newest class of antidepressants is safer and JUST as effective as older classes, and this is a bold-faced lie. We'll talk more about their efficacy in future segments, but when you have an anti-depressant that MIGHT cause you to kill yourself OR your family, is a small and very modest benefit really worth the risk? This is not to say there aren't uses for SSRIs, but their current use - as a panacea for all types of depression - is dangerous for Americans' health and well-being. This information is NOT widely distributed to the general public because it would eat into profit margins... and there are many practitioners who aren't even aware of the degree of this problem either, so SPREAD THE WORD and help us restore healthcare decisions back to being between patients and their providers.
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