-Caveat Lector- The International Coalition For Drug Awareness http://www.drugawareness.org/ WARNING: Withdrawal can often be more dangerous than continuing on a medication. Please click here before proceeding! For Art Bell Show Listeners: Dr. Tracy to appear on The Art Bell Show, Saturday Night/Sunday Morning, 11pm to 3am PDT, September 4th/5th. Dr. Ann Tracy, the Executive Director of the ICFDA, will again be interviewed on the Art Bell Program Saturday Night/Sunday Morning September 4/5, 1999. If you miss this show, and want to hear it, and if your computer is equipped for audio and has the Real Player software installed, you can access the file on the Art Bell site, or click here for list of participating radio stations. Link to order Dr. Tracy's book and tape. For a listing of other appearances, please check Ann's site at http://members.aol.com/atracyphd/appear.htm. News: For information about the Columbine shootings in Colorado, click here. For the latest information about the Forsyth "Prozac" trial in Hawaii, click here. For stories and releases regarding recent studies or other legal actions, click here. The International Coalition for Drug Awareness Did you know... . . you have a seven times greater chance of dying walking into your doctor's office than you do getting behind the wheel of your car? Prescription drug adverse reactions are the third leading cause of death in America! Every year approximately 200,000 die from prescription drug reactions and another 80,000 die from medical malpractice, while 41,000 die in auto accidents. [DRUG TOPICS, October 23, 1995, pg. 14-16.] What is wrong with our focus on the "drug war" when 200,000 die each year from prescription drugs, yet approximately only 20,000 die as a result of illegal drug use? Billions of dollars go into illegal drug issues in this country every year even though far more are dying from legal drugs. Everyone is asking, "Where is the FDA?" Busy approving another new drug? And how many more will die from that one? Morton Mintz, a former Washington Post reporter, and a Nieman Fellow who won the Raymond Clapper award for reporting the thalidomide tragedy published a book in 1965 entitled, THE THERAPEUTIC NIGHTMARE. His warnings heeded then, and the warnings coming from many other men of great integrity since then, could have spared us the agony we have experienced from the drug tragedies since that time and those we are engulfed in today. He begins with, "Here we shall see that there have been instances when our excessive trust in certain Corporate Consciences has been rewarded with inadequately and even fraudulently tested drugs, with useless drugs and inferior versions of good drugs, with protraction of illness, and with waste of our money. In order that sales may begin and continue, regardless of whether we are healed and spared pain, evidence of serious and even lethal effects has been withheld from the responsible government agency and concealed from the medical profession and the public." (p.xiv) We wish to honor him here (and those who have followed in his footsteps) in their unending efforts to warn us of these serious problems associated with the drugs we have come to learn to blindly trust. This site is to assist us in making sure that trust is no longer a "blind" trust. We must take the responsibility to educate ourselves about what we are putting into our bodies and brains. Some of the most popular drugs on the market today are those that increase serotonin levels like the diet pills that were just pulled from the market. Originally Phen-Fen & Redux were thought to be so safe that 18 million people took the drugs. Now we know that they were so dangerous that those who took even one pill have been advised to have their hearts checked. If these drugs could be among the most popular on the market and touted as "the thing" for weight management for a two year period, leaving a backlash of victims that attorney's offices cannot even begin to handle, what other mistakes will we wake up to tomorrow? What are you taking right now that could be just as dangerous or as damaging as these diet pills? What do you know about the medication you are currently taking? What do you know about the dangers of taking the drugs you are taking in combination with one another? Even more frightening to ask is "What does your doctor know or not know about the answers to these questions?" Drugs like Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Luvox, Effexor, Serzone, Anafranil, etc. are some of the biggest money makers ever for the pharmaceutical companies. Yet are you aware that the use of Prozac among children from ages 6-12 went from 41,000 in 1995 to 203,000 in 1996. The number of new prescriptions written increased almost 400% in just one year?!! This is a very powerful mind-altering drug that has not been approved for use in children and yet our children are popping it like candy! Just Prozac's affect upon cortisol levels alone should frighten parents to death. One 30mg dose has been shown to clearly double the level of cortisol! (PROZAC PANACEA OR PANDORA?, p. 168) Increased cortisol impairs the development and regeneration of the liver, kidneys and muscles. It also retards linear growth. How many parents are given that information? How many doctors are aware of it themselves? The study being used to gain FDA approval of this medication demonstrates that the rate of mania (a terrible form of insanity including symptoms of sexual compulsions, criminal behavior, alcohol cravings, rages leading to domestic violence, delusions of grandeur - often mistaken for increased self confidence, wild spending and varied types of criminal behavior) among children taking Prozac in the study was three times higher than it is for adults - three out of 100 had to drop out of the study due to this devastating complication which developed within a short eight week trial! The most logical question to ask is, "Why do this to our children when there are many safer natural options that work as well without serious side effects?" To learn more about a specific class of drug... click here: Anti-Depressants (SSRI's) Diet and Weight Loss ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- To report an adverse reaction to the FDA... Click here for instructions. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- To Schedule an Appearance or Interview with AN ICFDA representative: Please contact Kristin Verhagen at 831-429-6738, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The International Coalition for Drug Awareness is a non-profit group organized, funded and maintained by concerned citizens. You are invited to share your adverse reactions to various prescription medications with us - those medications you once thought were "safe and effective" before your own experience proved otherwise. Please use this site and links to gather information about what we have found through our own experiences and through reports made to the FDA to be dangerous prescription medications. We would hope that this would assist you in learning from the experiences of others so that you too do not suffer these tragic consequences. This information is educational. We do not practice medicine. 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