"Paroxetine is not effective in adolescents with major depression and actually causes harm"
This simple statement is taken from the doctors online magazine, Pulse, on 18th September 2015.
What the statement hides is that this constitutes yet another example of fraudulent activity by the pharmaceutical industry, and the harm it is prepared to do to its patients in order to sell drugs.
The trial was undertaken in 2001 and came to the conclusion that paraxetine was 'safe and effective' for adolescents, and on this basis doctors have been prescribing it for the last 14 years!
The study was funded by the Big Pharma company - GlaxoSmithKline.
Now, the study and its reported findings has been 're-analysed', and it has been found that neither Paroxetine, and another drug tested in the same study, Imipramine, were not as effective as placebo. The authors concluded that
"Neither paroxetine nor high dose imipramine showed efficacy for major depression in adolescents, and there was an increase in harms with both drugs".
The result is that after prescribing the drug for over 14 years (on the basis of a so-called 'scientific' trial), doctors are now being advised by the drug regulator, the MHRA, against prescribing SSRIs to young people as "they may be linked to increased suicide-related events".
Indeed, the Pulse article says that the 'new analysis' suggested that doctors should be cautions with all SSRI drugs, and avoid paroxetine altogether!
And that, according to Pulse, and presumably the wider conventional medical establishment, is all there is to it! The re-analysis of the study was said to be "helpful to confirm the current advice".
- No mention of the 2001 study, and why it came to a false recommendation.
- No mention about what action would be taken against the drug company, and the so-called scientists who 'got it wrong'.
- No mention of how many people have been given this drug for the last 14 years on the basis of this 'scientific' recommendation.
- No mention of how many people have been harmed by the drug during this time.
- No mention of an apology by the conventional medical profession.
- As far as I can ascertain, no mention of this fraud in any of the mainstream media.
Paroxetine is sold under more well-known trade names, including Paxil and Seroxat, that have been marketed since 1992. The drug, quite regardless of the plethora of names under which it is marketed, has been known to be dangerous since that time. It is known to increase suicide risk, and to cause birth defects. Like other SSRI drugs it can cause dizziness, headaches, blurred vision, loss of appetite, nausea, diarrhoea, constipation, somnolence, insomnia, hypomania, nervousness, paraesthesia, dizziness, weakness, tremor, sweating and sexual dysfunction. And no doubt much more that is not yet known, or admitted.
According to the Pulse article, this re-analysis is "the first piece of work to be published in the BMJas part of an initiative called RIAT – Restoring Invisible and Abandoned Trials". What this means is that there is now considerable concern about the 'science' that underlays so many of the pharmaceutical drug trials that have taken place over recent decades. More fraud, concerning more drugs and vaccines, are clearly suspected to have taken place. Drug companies have paid for the 'science', and at least some scientists appear to have been happy to produce the results that the drug companies have wanted.
- This is cheque-book science, not real science!
- It is not the science that seeks truth, it is the science that seeks to sell pharmaceutical drugs.
- It is not the science that protects patients. It is the science that puts patients at risk of dangerous drugs.
- It is science that supports Big Pharma profits.
