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FDA Issues Antidepressant Warning About Overdosing

Another reason you shouldn't rely on antidepressants to tame the negative emotions that harm your health: Earlier this week, the FDA issued a warning letter about increasing incidents of fatal overdosing via Effexor (venlafaxine HCI).

Although the letter didn't spell out how many overdoses were reported (other than they occurred most often when taken in combination with other drugs or alcohol), a notice issued by drugmaker Wyeth to physicians points to epidemiological studies that prove patients treated with Effexor have a higher preexisting burden of suicide risk factors than those who take SSRIs with dangerous side effects like Prozac and Paxil.

Although some analysts believe Wyeth will only be marginally affected economically, the letter may prompt physicians to use Effexor, considered the world's most lucrative antidepressant, only in the event other, perhaps equally as toxic, SSRIs fail to do the job.

And fail they often do, as researchers discovered more than a year ago. Some gentler treatments that will tame your emotions far more safely than a pill:

MSNBC October 25, 2006

Reuters October 25, 2006




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I believe too many people are prescribed antidepressants when they should be steered toward a healthier lifestyle with recommended balanced diet and exercise.  I would also recommend the MorEPA Omega-3 fish oils 580mg EPA supplements and B Complex.  I suffered from depression for many years, but with the aid of these supplements I am able to look forward - instead of backwards.  The omega3 can be purchased from http://wwwomega3.com.

 

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I concur with 'healthy nutrition' but have a story of my own that was unbelievable until I tried it myself.  I had suffered a situational depression from the dying of my parents, one killed and 10 months later my father died at the hand of a employee.  I could not live with myself but being disabled (only one lung, among other things) I went into a deep depression and even checked myself into a hospital for depression.  The doctors and their RX's only made it worse. To make a long story short. I purchased a pendant from BIOPROTECHNOLOGY that I heard from Dr. Weil and Dr. Mercola was to fend-off EMF's (electric magnetic fields from cell phones, cell phone towers, computers and the electric companies transformers-one located outside my yard).  Thinking it just a preventative from further cell damage, I did not expect much of anything obvious.  Then about 2-3 weeks, I stopped being depressed and went off all the serious anti-depressents which by then included lithium, went back to my dcotor to let him know I'd kicked the depression and he laughed as I told him and showed him the BioPro Pendant.  How stupid these little doctors can be.  I'm the one feeling my oats today! It made me see even more clear just how the pharmacuetical companies dictate to these doctors!  I suggest every one listen to Dr.'s like Mercola and do the research on their specific dis-eases - once these docs start feeling the blow from finacial loss - hopefully they will catch on.
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