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DRUG AWARENESS
ICFDA
Mission: The International Coalition for Drug Awareness acts as a clearing house for information regarding adverse reactions to prescription drugs. Our major focus is on drugs which we believe to be expecially dangerous or have a poor benefit to risk ratio. This criteria includes most drugs that have intended or unintended psychotropic effects, particularly serotonergic medications. (Drugs that affect serotonin levels include: Prozac, Zoloft, Serzone, Effexor, Paxil, Luvox, Serzone, Anafranil, Deseryl, Fen-Phen, ect.) You are invited to share your experiences with us, and to peruse this site and the links to learn the experiences of others. We do not practice medicine.
Dropping "cold turkey" off any of these (psychiatric
or diet) medications can be more dangerous than staying on the drugs. Tapering
off very, very, very slowly has proven the safest and most effective method
of withdrawal.
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(INCLUDING DRUGS LIKE
PROZAC,
ZOLOFT,
PAXIL,
LUVOX,
EFFEXOR,
SERZONE,
ANAFRANIL (click
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THE DIET PILLS - FENFLURAMINE--
FEN-PHEN (Click
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You can learn a lot about these medications from the book: PROZAC: PANACEA OR PANDORA? . The book is the product of five years of intensive research, and the cases of approximately 1000 patients on a long-term basis. The author, Ann Blake Tracy holds a Doctorate in Psychology and Health Sciences, is the director of the International Coalition for Drug Awareness, heads the only support group in the state of Utah for those who have suffered adverse reactions to serotonergic medications (such as prozac, zoloft, paxil, luvox, effexor, serzone, anafranil, fen-phen, and redux), has testified before the FDA and congressional subcommittee members on Prozac. She has testified since 1992 as an expert witness in Prozac and other SSRI related court cases around the world. Her first book on the issue was published in 1991. During the last five years she has participated in innumerable radio, television, newspaper and magazine interviews. We know of no one with such extensive experience and expertise on all of these issues surrounding the SSRI antidepressants as Ann Blake Tracy.
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"I am alarmed at the monster that Johns Hopkins neuroscientist Solomon Snyder and I created when we discovered the simple binding assay for drug receptors 25 years ago. Prozac and other antidepressant serotonin-receptor-active compounds may also cause cardiovascular problems in some susceptible people after long-term use, which has become common practice despite the lack of safety studies.
"The public is being misinformed about the precision of these selective serotonin-uptake inhibitors when the medical profession oversimplifies their action in the brain and ignores the body as if it exists merely to carry the head around! In short, these molecules of emotion regulate every aspect of our physiology. A new paradigm has evolved, with implications that life-style changes such as diet and exercise can offer profound, safe and natural mood elevation."
Candace B. Pert, Research Professor, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington;
Letter to the Editor of TIME Magazine, October 20, 1997, page 8. Click on the magazine name for other relevant letters to the editor.
Click for ordering information about Candace Pert'sBook and Cassette.
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LATEST MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION REVEALS THESE
SERIOUS PROBLEMS:
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A typical story: "I started having bad reactions . . . Oct '96 (almost one year ago) I found Prozac to be causing joint and muscle pain itself. I also became concerned that I was developing signs of Cushing's Syndrome.
". . . I was very pro-Prozac until last October and wouldn't have listened to anything said against it until I got problems (thought it was saving my life, while all the time it was insidiously and slowly killing me!) When I first heard about your book (Prozac: Panacea or Pandora? ) on the Internet I was interested but quite skeptical. However, since reading it and having suffered so many problems with Prozac, I have come to the conclusion that the book is brilliant, and a life-line as far as I am concerned. I tried to fault the research and reasoning, but could not and still can't. I would like to extend my thanks to you for your heroic stance on this enormously important issue. I have tremendous respect and admiration for your hard work, determination and courage in pursuing this subject so vigorously, against so much powerful opposition for the benefit of people like me. Your integrity puts many, if not most doctors and psychiatrists to shame. It is reassuring to find that there are a few people in the world who are prepared to fight for the truth for the benefit of mankind. . . ."
A.S., A British Nurse
Excerpt from a letter received September, 1997.
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more personal experiences reported to the ICFDA.
Click Here to find out how the prescription drugs of the 90's are creating the problems of the street drugs of the 60's.
Click here for information about SEROTONIN, - THE KEY TO THE PSYCHEDELIC EXPERIENCE:
Some complications of using these medications:
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Drugs, radiation and chemotherapy may not be the answer for Cancer. Click here.
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Many Gulf War Veterans have been offered antidepressants rather than treatment for the cause of Gulf War Syndrome. Learn more on Joyce Riley's page and from her links.
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More information about psychiatric drugs is also available from the Second Opinion Society of Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. There is no connection between the Second Opinion Soeiety or the Lunitics Liberation Front and the ICFDA. The link is provided for your convenience.
Click here to read "Protein and Propaganda" by Michael Dye. Bookmark this page or use your Back button to return.
Some appearances of experts associated with the ICFDA.
Link to Bill's Survivor Homepage. Comments and experiences of one Prozac Survivor and links to other Prozac-related pages for which no claims are made.
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