{"id":349,"date":"2010-10-31T11:40:05","date_gmt":"2010-10-31T17:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/?p=349"},"modified":"2024-07-14T05:43:07","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T10:43:07","slug":"349","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/31\/349\/","title":{"rendered":"Forest Labs Settles Some Psych Drug Suicide Suits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/business\/article_c569f2c4-58a7-5432-a939-ff22e90583e5.html\">Forest  Labs Settles Some Psych Drug Suicide Suits<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The St. Louis Post-Dispatch published an article on Saturday and Sunday,  October 30 and 31, 2010, describing fallout from Forest Pharmaceuticals&#8217; guilty  plea to illegally marketing antidepressants to children.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A month after its Earth City [St. Louis, Missouri]\u00c2\u00a0subsidiary 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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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&#8217;s clinical trials, and targeting children in aggressive promotions of Celexa and a sister drug, Lexapro.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In vivid detail, the complaints allege that children under the influence of  Celexa and Lexapro committed acts of suicide and violence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article here <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/business\/article_c569f2c4-58a7-5432-a939-ff22e90583e5.html\">http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/business\/article_c569f2c4-58a7-5432-a939-ff22e90583e5.html<\/a> and\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:jdoyle@post-dispatch.com\">thank the author, Jim Doyle<\/a>,\u00c2\u00a0for his reporting.<\/p>\n<p>CCHR has known and publicized\u00c2\u00a0for years that psychiatric drugs can provoke  violence and suicide, among many other disastrous side effects. The real  problem, however, is that psychiatrists, and now\u00c2\u00a0non-psychiatric doctors, are  fraudulently diagnosing life&#8217;s problems as an &#8220;illness,&#8221; stigmatizing unwanted  behavior or study problems as\u00c2\u00a0&#8220;disease,&#8221;  and prescribing harmful and addictive psychoactive drugs as so-called  &#8220;treatment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Psychiatry&#8217;s stigmatizing labels, programs and treatments are harmful junk  science; their diagnoses of &#8220;mental disorders&#8221; are a hoax \u00e2\u20ac\u201d unscientific,  fraudulent and harmful. All psychiatric treatments, not just psychiatric drugs,  are dangerous.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/sideeffects.shtml\">Click here <\/a>for more  information about the harmful effects of Celexa and Lexapro.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/parity.shtml\">Click here <\/a>for more information  about psychiatric fraud.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/causes.shtml\">Click here <\/a>for more information  about the alternatives to psychiatric drugging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forest Labs settling lawsuits from parents of children who committed suicide after taking antidepressants Celexa or Lexapro.<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/31\/349\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-muddy-river-newsletter","category-press-releases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6NMpC-349","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}