Category Archives: Personal stories psyche drugs

Fatal Intoxication: Soldiers dying in their sleep from psyche drugs

Such deaths have been occurring for years, but they were recently brought to light by a West Virginia couple who shared the story of their son, Andrew White, with ABC News. Andrew died in 2008 of fatal drug intoxication. The Whites blame the prescriptions their son was on for his death. According to a report by ABC11x:

“”We call it the lethal cocktail. It’s antidepressants, antipsychotics and analgesics. It’s just overloading, and your body can’t take it,” Stan [White] explained. The Whites said Andrew was taking Seroquel, Klonopin, and Paxil. They still have the pills prescribed by Veteran’s Administration doctors to treat Andrew’s post-traumatic stress disorder… “He made that choice to trust the VA and that trust cost him his life,” [Mrs. White] continued.”

The twist to the story is that within weeks of Andrew’s death, three other war veterans—all of whom were taking the same drugs Andrew was on—also died in their sleep. Read more… Comment by VLA founder: “Did the physician test for Cytochrome P450 2D6?

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Decades of Families torn apart illegally? Heather Catallo investigates based on Michigan Mom



(WXYZ) – When protective services take children from their parents, state law says a judge must first personally review the case and sign off. But that was not happening in one of Michigan’s busiest courts.

It’s called “rubber stamping,” and last August 7 Action News first exposed how court staff were literally stamping a judge’s name onto orders that allowed the state to take kids from their parents.

After our investigations – the rubber stamping stopped – but no one has ever been held accountable — not the judge, not the chief judge or child protective services.  Read more and see video…

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Michigan Mom who chose to take daughter off medication files lawsuit, alleges daughter deprived of prosthesis

DETROIT – (WXYZ) A local mom chose not to medicate her special needs daughter, so the state took the girl — and the mom landed in jail. Now she is suing.

Thursday afternoon, Maryanne Godboldo filed a civil rights lawsuit. In it, there are new allegations that her daughter’s prosthetic leg was taken while in state care, to stop the child from trying to get back to her mother.  Read more… And see video

Facts on Prescription Drug Deaths

Dr. Terence Young

Terence Young, Member of Parliament for Oakville, is the founder and Chair of Drug Safety Canada, a research and public advocacy organization based in Oakville.  He has been active in issues related to prescription drug safety since March 2000, after losing his fifteen your old daughter Vanessa to the Johnson & Johnson prescription drug Prepulsid.  Read more…

Buy the book…DEATH BY PRESCRIPTON

Soldiers: Lariam (Malaria Drug) Drug induced Psychosis-Cytochrome P450

An anti-malarial drug that has been withdrawn from routine use by the U.S. military because of concerns about potentially dangerous side-effects continues to be prescribed to Canadian troops serving in malaria-prone regions.The drug, called mefloquine or Lariam, has been associated with psychiatric and physical side-effects that prompted the U.S. military to withdraw it from general use in 2009, but the Canadian Forces continue to prescribe it to soldiers. Side-effects can range from anxiety, vivid nightmares and depression, to hallucinations and psychotic episodes, and the drug has also been blamed for suicides and long-term health problems.  Read more…

PHARMACOGENETICS: The media has not yet become aware that a percentage of the population are poor or non-metablolizers due to an evolutionary deletion in CYTOCHROME P450.  If this drugs is taken by those who have this genetic deletion there is an inability to metabolize causing psychosis, homicidal and suicidal ideations.

Lariam (Mefloquine) Manufacturer’s InsertRead some stats:
At Fort Hood, where 48,000 troops and their families are stationed, 6,000 soldiers were on antidepressants, and 1,400 were on antipsychotic drugs in 2009, reported USA Today. At Fort Bragg, where 50,000 are stationed, 4,994 troops were on antidepressants, and 664 were on antipsychotics in 2010, reported the Fayetteville Observer, adding that “many soldiers take more than one type of medication. Read more…

Cytochrome P450 information including drug list…a synopsis of the issue.

THOUSAND OF US SOLDIERS ON PSYCHE DRUGS

Thousands of US soldiers are going into battle fueled by all sorts of prescription medications, be they amphetamines, antidepressants, sedatives or others. Largely unmonitored consumption of drugs can lead to aberrant behavior and mental disorders.

­Over 110,000 American service personnel took prescribed medications in 2011 to battle through everyday military routine.

The Times recently disclosed that nearly 8 per cent of active-duty American servicemen and women take sedatives and over 6 per cent are on antidepressants, a tremendous eightfold increase since 2005, when two wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were in full swing.  READ MORE…
Read some stats:
At Fort Hood, where 48,000 troops and their families are stationed, 6,000 soldiers were on antidepressants, and 1,400 were on antipsychotic drugs in 2009, reported USA Today. At Fort Bragg, where 50,000 are stationed, 4,994 troops were on antidepressants, and 664 were on antipsychotics in 2010, reported the Fayetteville Observer, adding that “many soldiers take more than one type of medication.