Forest Labs Settles Some Psych Drug Suicide Suits
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch published an article on Saturday and Sunday, October 30 and 31, 2010, describing fallout from Forest Pharmaceuticals’ guilty plea to illegally marketing antidepressants to children.
“A month after its Earth City [St. Louis, Missouri]Â subsidiary pleaded guilty of illegally marketing antidepressants to children and adolescents, Forest Laboratories is now settling a string of wrongful death and personal injury lawsuits from the parents of children who took the drugs Celexa and Lexapro.”
“Fifty-four lawsuits, mostly involving suicides and attempted suicides by teenagers in various parts of the country, accuse the New York-based pharmaceutical company of concealing a negative pediatric study on Celexa, duping physicians about the drug’s clinical trials, and targeting children in aggressive promotions of Celexa and a sister drug, Lexapro.”
“In vivid detail, the complaints allege that children under the influence of Celexa and Lexapro committed acts of suicide and violence.”
Read the full article here http://www.stltoday.com/business/article_c569f2c4-58a7-5432-a939-ff22e90583e5.html and thank the author, Jim Doyle, for his reporting.
CCHR has known and publicized for years that psychiatric drugs can provoke violence and suicide, among many other disastrous side effects. The real problem, however, is that psychiatrists, and now non-psychiatric doctors, are fraudulently diagnosing life’s problems as an “illness,” stigmatizing unwanted behavior or study problems as “disease,” and prescribing harmful and addictive psychoactive drugs as so-called “treatment.”
Psychiatry’s stigmatizing labels, programs and treatments are harmful junk science; their diagnoses of “mental disorders” are a hoax — unscientific, fraudulent and harmful. All psychiatric treatments, not just psychiatric drugs, are dangerous.
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