National data: Psychiatric drugs behind 75 percent of all female suicides

National data: Psychiatric drugs behind 75 percent of all female
suicides

Stockholm, Sweden 2/06/2008 10:19 PM GMT (TransWorldNews)



Newly uncovered data show that psychiatric drugs were behind 75
percent of ALL suicides among women (18-84) in Sweden (2006);
antidepressants were behind 52 percent.



The unique information is coming from the National Board of Health and
Welfare. It can be the first time that data on a national level about
ALL the psychiatric drug treatment preceding suicides, have been
revealed.



Among a total number of 377 women who committed suicide in 2006, 281
(75%) had filled a prescription for psychiatric drugs within 180 days
before their death.



The women were seeking help - and they got psychiatric drugs, said by
psychiatrists and pharmaceutical companies to prevent suicides and
cure depression.



There was no "lack of treatment" for the 377 women who committed
suicide: Almost one fifth (18%) got at least three psychiatric drugs
(antidepressants, neuroleptics, hypnotics/sedatives); 41% got at least
two.



The data revealed add to the just released directive from European
Medicines Agency, to include warnings about increased risk of suicidal
thoughts and behaviour for ALL antidepressants, not only for children
and adolescents, but also for young adults (see the British MHRA,
Implementation of warnings on suicidal thoughts and behaviour in
antidepressants, 4 February).



For years pharmaceutical companies have used a "blackmail strategy" to
get doctors and sad patients to believe that they MUST use the drugs -
or else. Leading psychiatrists with financial interests in increased
sales have been writing endlessly in medical journals about the
"protective effect" of antidepressants against suicide. Shamelessly
false statements that the psychiatric drugs correct a chemical
imbalance (such as a lack of serotonin) in the brain are still part of
the official drug labels.



But the new data from Sweden tell the real story: Psychiatric drug
treatment was part of 75 percent of ALL cases of suicide among women
(18-84) for the year 2006; they obviously did NOT correct any form of
"chemical imbalance" in the brain for these women.



The conclusion from the now revealed data could only be one: At best
psychiatric drugs, including antidepressants, do not prevent suicides
and, at worst directly cause them.



See also earlier article, Antidepressants behind 52 percent of all
suicides among women, http://www.transworldnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?id=33878&cat=10



Janne Larsson

reporter - investigating psychiatry

Sweden

janne.olov.larsson@xxxxxxxxx



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