Citizens Commission on Human Rights International Announces FDA Reported Psychiatric Drug Side Effects Search Engine: Decrypted FDA letters acknowledge 4,260 suicides, 2,452 added deaths, 195 homicides from 2004-2006 alone
Los Angeles, CA -- For the aboriginal time the ancillary accoutrement of psychiatric drugs that accept been appear to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) by doctors, pharmacists, added bloom affliction providers and consumers accept been decrypted from the FDA's MedWatch advertisement arrangement and been fabricated accessible to the accessible in an simple to seek psychiatric biologic ancillary accoutrement database and seek engine. The database is provided as a chargeless accessible account by the brainy bloom watchdog, Citizens Commission on Human Rights International (CCHR).
The address totals acknowledge that amid 2004-2008 the FDA's MedWatch arrangement accustomed pregnancy-related psychiatric biologic adverse acknowledgment letters which included 2,442 babies complete with affection disease, 3,372 added bearing defects, as able-bodied as 1,072 miscarriages, abortions and added deaths.
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The database aswell reveals that, amid 2004-2008 there were letters submitted to MedWatch including 4,895 suicides, 3,908 cases of aggression, 309 homicides and 6,945 cases of diabetes from humans demography psychiatric drugs. These numbers reflect alone a baby allotment of the absolute ancillary accoutrement occurring in the chump market, as the FDA has accepted that alone 1-10% of ancillary accoutrement are anytime appear to the FDA.
The database is searchable by alone letters (for the 2004-2006 period), blazon of drug, age of patient, the ancillary aftereffect appear (suicide, homicide, affection attack, stroke, mania, etc.), and whether the biologic in catechism carries a atramentous box admonishing (the agency's arch warning--short of banning a drug).
It is searchable by biologic name and age accumulation and includes who appear the psychiatric biologic acknowledgment (doctor, pharmacist, consumer, etc.). It aswell includes the top 20 appear adverse reactions to all psychiatric drugs to the FDA and accumulated summaries of all psychiatric biologic reactions for the years 2004-2006 and 2004-2008.
Since the ameliorate of the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) in 2007, ads for psychiatric and added drugs have to cover statements auspicious consumers to address adverse biologic reactions to the FDA's MedWatch system--Adverse Events Reporting System (AERS). However, consumers or doctors attempting to acceptance the AERS online were ashamed by a arrangement so circuitous that it was absurd to use. Although the FDA should accept fabricated the advice calm readily accessible, it bootless in that assignment to the public. It took a computer programmer over 1,000 hours to analyze four years' account of abstracts to accomplish this advice available.
The programmer articular the capital psychiatric drugs in the AERS, wading through annual letters of seven altered advertisement systems, including the biologic name, demographics, adverse reactions, accommodating outcomes, advertisement source, analysis alpha and end dates and the adumbration (diagnosis). The result: A database and seek engine that unravels the 94,000 pages of codified psychiatric biologic adverse reactions appear anniversary year from 2004-2006 and 2004-2008 to the FDA's MedWatch system.
Reporting of adverse reactions to psychiatric drugs by doctors, pharmacists, added bloom affliction providers and consumers already those drugs are out in the chump market, is axiological to biologic assurance monitoring. Yet these letters accept been frequently abandoned or absolved as "anecdotal" by the FDA even if austere ancillary accoutrement amount in the thousands. The FDA approves the majority of psychiatric drugs alone afterwards Phase 2 (short term) analytic trials. However, already the drugs are out in the chump market, the FDA is declared to crave best analytic trials, or post-marketing studies of the drugs, about this rarely happens. Subsequently, alarming and baleful drugs accept been larboard after atramentous box warnings, or on the bazaar for far too long. The best "signal" accident for the FDA to absolute its assets in anecdotic or affairs alarming drugs is what is accident out in the absolute world, with consumers and patients, not in a controlled abbreviate appellation analytic trial, adjourned by the biologic companies gluttonous approval for their drugs to go to market.
For years the advice absolute in the FDA's MedWatch advertisement arrangement has been aloof and accordingly around abortive for consumers and doctors. CCHR's attitude has consistently been that consumers accept the appropriate to this advice for again ̶ and alone again ̶ can consumers accept abounding "informed consent" apropos the risks of psychiatric drugs, and so it has provided this database as a chargeless accessible service.
The psychiatric biologic seek engine appearance a promotional video as able-bodied as an instructional video for users on CCHR's anew launched website so they can get the advice from the database they are analytic for in the beeline aggregate of time.
About The Citizens Commission on Human Rights:
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights is a brainy bloom babysitter co-founded in 1969 by Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus Thomas Szasz and the Church of Scientology. It is a non-profit, non political, non-religious alignment that has been amenable for added than 100 reforms that advice assure patients rights adjoin abuses in the acreage of brainy health. For added advice about CCHR go to http://www.cchrint.org
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