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Rich Murray: ICFDA: Scharfe: son, age 8, mental illness from 2 weeks

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http://www.drugawareness.org/Oldsite/tegretol.html

I Said No to Tegretol

by Scharfe in Pasadena , CA

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" I took one look at the prescription and shoved (it) back

across the desk toward the doctor. "

When my son was only 8, he was 10 pounds over weight. When I

asked his pediatrician to put him on a diet.....the pediatrician told

my son not to eat between meals and to drink ALL the diet sodas he

wanted. Within 2-3 weeks my son was hallucinating, hearing voices

and seeing things in either fast or slow motion, he was confused and

his memory was suddenly poor. When I told his pediatrician, his doctor

suggested to go to UCLA to their pediatric psychiatric department.

After a battery of tests were run, I was told to come back in two

weeks with the results. Before I left I asked the doctor what he

thought he would do with my son. He said that he thought he would end

up medicating him. I asked what drug he would choose. He said Tegretol

would be his drug of choice. I asked him how long he thought my son

would have to take Tegretol. He said for the rest of his life.

Well, since I was tired of seeing empty diet soda cans all over the

place, I told my son I didn't care what his doctor said about drinking

all he wanted to lose weight.... I was going to limit him to two cans

of diet soda per day. ALL my son's symptoms improved! After two

weeks I returned to UCLA and sure enough the doctor shoved a

prescription across his desk at me for Tegretol. I had asked a

pharmacist friend of mine what the side effects were and he said this

was nasty stuff. It could cause the genitals to be underdeveloped and

small and cause liver damage as well. Frequent blood testing would be

necessary.

That was enough for me. I took one look at the prescription for

Tegretol and shoved the prescription back across the desk toward the

doctor. You should have seen the look of shock on his face when I

said my son wouldn't be taking this drug. I told him by limiting the

intake of diet sodas my son's symptoms had improved in frequency. I

went on to tell him I was going to take him off of ALL diet sodas and

see how much improvement I could get from this move.

Well, needless to say.....ALL my son's symptoms went away by

monitoring his diet and restricting ALL diet sodas from his diet. UCLA

never once asked me a question about my son's diet. Not one

question. Well, parents use your common sense and don't trust doctors

blindly!

http://www.drugawareness.org/Oldsite/mission.html

" People don't care how much you know,

until they know how much you care. "

The International Coalition for Drug Awareness

Mission Statement Our Mission

The International Coalition For Drug Awareness is a private,

non-profit group of physicians, researchers, journalists and concerned

citizens. Our primary focus is to address the world's most pervasive

and subtle drug problem - prescription drugs. We are dedicated to

educating the people of the world regarding the potential harmful and

life threatening short and long term effects of these drugs. As the

cause of an estimated 200,000 deaths per year in America,

drug reactions are now the third leading cause of death!

The most dangerous period of time for a drug

is upon market introduction. At that point physicians and their

patients have information on adverse reactions present in the

controlled environment of a clinical trial, but are unaware of the

potential adverse reactions of these new drugs when dispensed to the

general public. We feel there is a need to track and report patient

reactions more carefully and more rapidly than what is presently being

done, which should result in lower medical costs for the patients and

doctors as well. And also might begin to breech the gap that is

beginning to form between well-meaning doctors and maltreated

patients.

By keeping prescribing physicians and their patients abreast

of recent adverse reaction reports we hope to cut the number of

unnecessary deaths due to drug reactions and interactions and lessen

the number of malpractice suits filed against physicians as a result of

those reactions. Beyond this public education process our intention is

to serve as an watch dog group in relationship with the FDA and

equivalent organizations around the world, encouraging them to

remove drugs which demonstrate high numbers of dangerous adverse

reactions and threaten the public safety.

WARNING: Dropping " cold turkey " off any medication, most

especially mind altering medications, can often be

MORE DANGEROUS than staying on the drugs.

Tapering off very, very, VERY SLOWLY--over

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The International Coalition for Drug Awareness

Board of Directors and Advisors

Executive Director: Dr. Ann Blake

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Dr. Ann Blake , a Ph.D. in Health Sciences with

the emphasis on Psychology, is the director of the

International Coalition for Drug Awareness. She has

specialized for 10 years in adverse reactions to

serotonergic medications (such as Prozac, Zoloft,

Paxil, Luvox, Effexor, Serzone, Anafranil, Fen-Phen,

and Redux) and has testified before the FDA and congressional

subcommittee members on Prozac. She has testified since 1992 as an

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We know of no one with such extensive experience

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about these medications from her book: PROZAC: PANACEA OR

PANDORA?. The book is the product of five years of intensive

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Dr. Candace B. Pert, PhD

Research Professor, town University Medical Center

Washington, D.C. http://www.georgetown.edu/

Former Chief of Brain Biochemistry at NIH for 13

years. She studied the inner workings of the body with an eye towards

identifying and locating peptides and receptors. She became convinced

these chemicals were the physical manifestation of emotion. She takes

some time from her research and teaching schedule to lecture

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Dr. n Whitaker, founder of the Whitaker Wellness Institute, is one

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M.I.T. (physics and history, BA, 1964), Boston U. Graduate School

(psychology, MA, 1967): As a concerned layman, I want to clarify the

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