After a few short weeks on an antidepressant drug, my husband and soulmate for 17 years, Tooker Gomberg, took his own life. I (Angela Bischoff) believe his death was caused by the drug. Below is my collected research.
Depression Expression: Raising Questions About Antidepressants
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This 20-page tabloid published in 2006 explores critical issues around antidepressant use: why it is so common, what the dangers are, and what are the alternatives.
It is designed to be printed on 11 x 17 paper; if printed on 8.5 x 11, try enlarging it on a photocopier for easier reading.
Articles
- A prescribed threat, Mary Eberstadt, LA Times
- Depression and the seratonin hypothesis
- Depression not a disease
- Disease mongering – A collection of essays
- Do SSRI antidepressants lead to an increase in violent behaviour?
- How to withdraw safely from antidepressant drugs, Angela Bischoff
- Interview with Dr. Peter Breggin
- Paxil and murder: News Release, Angela Bischoff
- Pharma greed gone mad: School shootings, violence and antidepressant drugs, Angela Bischoff
- Pharmaceuticals for Healthy People
- Psych Drugs: Interview with Robert Whitaker
- Selling sickness and drugs
- Silence and Suicide, Angela Bischoff
- Sounding the pharma alarm: Four accounts of the rise of the pharmaceutical industry, Angela Bischoff
- SSRI antidepressants: Their place in women’s lives
- The marketization of depression: The prescribing of SSRI antidepressants to women
- What’s wrong with SSRI’s, Angela Bischoff
- Your Drug may be your Problem, Angela Bischoff
Links
- Activist Burnout – a CBC radio documentary featuring Angela and Tooker’s
story – 31 min./ 6mb - A Pill for Every Ill, Angela Bischoff, Kelly Green, Bridget Haworth (5-page PDF)
- Adverse Psychiatric Reactions Information Link
- Alliance for Human Research Protection
- Antidepressant Facts
– Features research, articles, studies, personal experiences, views of doctors & 1001+ links to further sources of information - The Antidepressant Solution, 2005, by Dr. Joseph Glenmullen
- Association between suicide attempts and SSRIs
– Dr. Dean Fergusson - Canadian Adverse Drug Reaction Database
- Canadian Health Coalition – on Big Pharma
- Canadian Health Coalition – private vs. public health care in Canada
- Depression Dialogues
- Depression Expression: raising questions about antidepressants
- Direct – to – Consumer Drug Advertising
- Doctor Yourself
- Dr. Rath Health Foundation
- Efficacy of Antidepressants in Adults, July 16, 2005, British Medical Journal
- Emperor’s new drugs: An analysis of antidepressant medication data submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- Friends of Freedom
- Icarus Project
- International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology
- International Coalition for Drug Awareness
- International Guide to the World of Alternative Mental Health
- Let Them Eat Prozac, 2003
- Listening to Prozac but hearing placebo: A meta-analysis of antidepressant medication
- No Free Lunch
- Making sense of coming off psychiatric drugs
- MeTZelf Association for Medical and Therapeutic Self-Determination
- Mind Freedom
- News Target – Daily news and commentary on natural health, wellness, planetary health and medicine
- Orthomolecular Medicine
- Orthomolecular Vitamin Information Centre
- Paxil: the Ill Pill
- Paxil Protest
- Peter Breggin – Psychiatric Drug Facts
- PsychRights
- Psychiatric Medication Awareness Group
- Public Citizen
- Radio interview with Angela, Dec. 2007 (25 min.)
- SSRI antidepressant horror stories
- SSRI Research — What do I need to know about
- antidepressants?
- SSRI Withdrawal Support Site
- Stop Drug Ads
- Taper Safely — a resource
- for education, research and referrals when withdrawing off antidepressants
- The Truth about Psychology and Psychiatry
- Thinking About Depression
Videos
- A Question of Corruption – CBS News, 60 Minutes
- Big Bucks Big Pharma
- Fox National News exposes the link between psychiatric drugs and school shootings.
- Gun Crazy
- JibJab – Drugs I Need – cartoon
- Michael Moore calls for an investigation into school shooters and psychiatric drugs.
- Prescription: Suicide? – a documentary film on the connections between SSRIs and suicide in children.
- Secrets of the Drug Trials – BBC
- The Drugging of our Children – Gary Null
- Virginia Tech and Death by Drugs
- We’ll Take Care of You
- YouTube search for videos on antidepressants
- Women and Health Protection
- Woody Matters
- Worst Pills – your expert, independent source for prescription drug information
- The Anti-Depressant Fact Book, 2001
Government advisories on antidepressants
- Health Canda Advisories regarding antidepressants
- http://www.fda.gov/cder/drug/antidepressants/AntidepressanstPHA.htm
- fda.gov/bbs/topics/news/2004/NEW01116.html
- fda.gov/cder/drug/advisory/SSRI200507.htm
- fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/04/transcripts/4006T1.htm
- fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/04/transcripts/2004-4065T1.htm