Alison Bass (a former Boston Globe reporter with a long hate the industry bias) is the latest apologist for the increase in suicides as a result of the fearmongering over SSRIs. In an editorial called "Suicide Rates as a PR Tool" she attributes better mental health care and gun control (!) Really? So how are kids killing themselves now in the wake of better mental health care and stricter gun controls if SSRIs have nothing to do with it. The idiocy of zealot courtesy of another anti-medication fanatic, Univ of Maryland researcher Julie Zito.
Oh, Bass is the author of a forthcoming book entitled, "Side Effects: A Best-selling Drug on Trial." How about fearmongering and demeaning those who have struggled to combat suicide as a PR tool. Where does a suicide denier stack up next to a Holocaust denier.
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/
Others like Alex (I stole the documents) Berenson dismiss the number of suicides as so small as to really merit concern. Funny, when Steve (I want to cause people's hands to tremble a little bit before they write that prescription," )Nissen and Curt Furberg were foaming at the mouth about 25 'unexplained' heart attacks among kids taking ADHD drugs over a ten year period that was enough to demand a black box an entire class of drugs and for the NY Times to run story after story validating as opposed to questioning the concerns.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/10/health/policy/10drug.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/21/health/21psyc.html?fta=y
Keep it coming. Every time these whack jobs and their apologists take a run at the work of Robert Gibbons -- which has been verified by Greg Simon at Group of Health Puget Sound and J. John Mann and many others -- the most extreme and dangerous they appear.
Oh, Bass is the author of a forthcoming book entitled, "Side Effects: A Best-selling Drug on Trial." How about fearmongering and demeaning those who have struggled to combat suicide as a PR tool. Where does a suicide denier stack up next to a Holocaust denier.
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/
Others like Alex (I stole the documents) Berenson dismiss the number of suicides as so small as to really merit concern. Funny, when Steve (I want to cause people's hands to tremble a little bit before they write that prescription," )Nissen and Curt Furberg were foaming at the mouth about 25 'unexplained' heart attacks among kids taking ADHD drugs over a ten year period that was enough to demand a black box an entire class of drugs and for the NY Times to run story after story validating as opposed to questioning the concerns.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/10/health/policy/10drug.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/21/health/21psyc.html?fta=y
Keep it coming. Every time these whack jobs and their apologists take a run at the work of Robert Gibbons -- which has been verified by Greg Simon at Group of Health Puget Sound and J. John Mann and many others -- the most extreme and dangerous they appear.
