The AbbVie/InterMune Petition.

Take a moment out to sign this petition put forward by David Healy.

In a nutshell, AbbVie, makers of Humira, and InterMune, whose pulmonary-fibrosis drug Esbriet has recently been approved in Europe, aren't playing ball.

Neither of them want you seeing data from their trials on the benefits and harms of these drugs so both have filed suit to deny access to information that is important for the consumer.

What do they have to hide, more importantly who do they think they are by making demands that the public have no right to access this information? They claim that trade secrets would be released if they had to offer up such information. This is nothing but a smokescreen designed to stop the general public from getting to the truth!

The petition is gaining momentum, over 700 signatures in just 48 hours. However, more people need to sign it.

Let's put pressure on.

Petition can be read and signed HERE.

Bob Fiddaman

Obama Shuns Public Opinion on Psychiatric Drugs

If you are landing on my blog for the first time you'll probably have arrived here via a search engine, chances are you typed in "Paxil withdrawal" or "Seroxat side effects". In fact many visitors arrive here using the search terms Paxil or Seroxat combined with words such as "aggression", "mood swings", "suicidal thoughts", etc.

The recent Connecticut school shootings highlighted, for me at least, just how dangerous psychiatric drugs can be. It also highlighted how the public in general perceive 'mental illness'.

Adam Lanza, it is believed, shot and killed 27 people, 20 of whom were children, this before turning the gun on himself in an act of suicide.

This, obviously, outraged the public and comments on websites, forums and social networking sites were littered with opinion about Lanza's state of mind. "Nutter", "Crazy", "Madman", "Evil" all being examples of words used to describe Lanza.

Sure, I'd agree with most of the above descriptions but I wouldn't/couldn't just leave it there.

What made Lanza crazy?

Plea For MHRA and EMA to Get Their House in Order

Bravo to Patrick H for starting this petition. It takes courage and resilience to stand up for what you believe in. Too many people sit around and wait for others to act, whilst others criticize those for standing up to be counted. Respect Patrick.

This from the online petition:


To the UK’s MHRA and EU’s EMA: The drugs on our shelves and those recommended by our doctors should first do no harm. As concerned citizens we call on you to put safety first and implement the reforms below:

1) Investigate and act against pharmaceutical companies employing illegal marketing activities by appointing an independent watchdog not funded by the drug industry who can be freely contacted by patients and by doctors witnessing bribery and encouragement to prescribe a drug ‘off label’- for a condition it has no licence to treat - by pharmaceutical representatives.

2) Tighten up requirements for licensing new drugs to include a thorough assessment of benefits versus risks, as well as withdrawal effects.

3) Record and minute meetings to be made publicly available, including representation from consumer groups.

4) Enforce pharmaceutical companies to publish their trial data, without hiding adverse effects, on their website for free access.

5) Take patient reported adverse reactions seriously and encourage patients who have had adverse effects to share them on the website rxisk.org so other patients and doctors are informed.


Why this is important

The profit-hungry drug company GlaxoSmithKline has been peddling a diabetes drug they knew was causing heart attacks without informing doctors or patients of the risk. Regulators in the EU knew about the dangers but failed to act fast enough, putting lives unnecessarily at risk. Previously, UK regulators knew about anti- depressants causing suicide but took over ten years to do anything about it. The same complacency is happening again with new anti-depressants and other drugs.

Earlier this month GSK pleaded guilty to criminal charges relating to anti-depressant and diabetes drug frauds and agreed to pay a $3 billion fine. That brings total fines against big pharma in the US in the last four years to almost $10 billion! But no fines in the UK or EU. Why do we put up with it?

A massive push from thousands of people right now will add to pressure from the media and force regulators to act faster and more decisively against dangerous drugs. As a citizen of the UK I need to know that my family and I are safe and that drug companies put patients before profits. But drug companies will only do the right thing if regulators force them.

Let’s join together in a gigantic outcry for the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulation Agency and EU’s European Medicines Agency to put safety first. Sign the petition!

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I truly hope the petition will make the MHRA stand up and listen. I suspect they will, as usual, pretend to listen then do absolutely nothing about the issues raised. They are limp-wristed and powerless and claim to be the best regulator in the world. To be the best of a truly awful bunch is not something I'd be proud of.

The MHRA are in bed with the pharmaceutical industry, they are not just sleeping with them they are performing all sorts of kinky sex acts. Just follow the money trail folks, case in point being these 4 articles I wrote back in 2010.


GlaxoSmithKline/MHRA - When Ignorance Turns To Bliss - Part I of IV

GlaxoSmithKline/MHRA - When Ignorance Turns To Bliss - Part II of IV - Witness For The Defence

GlaxoSmithKline/MHRA - When Ignorance Turns To Bliss - Part III of IV - Expert Statistician


GlaxoSmithKline/MHRA - When Ignorance Turns To Bliss - Part IV - The Colour of Money


Fid

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Young Girls Abused In Care!

I'm currently reading Teresa Cooper's 'Trust No One'. It focuses on her time at Kendall House.

The blurb reads thus:

Thrust into care at six months of age because of an alcoholic father and mentally ill mother, Teresa Cooper's life began in a less than perfect way. Teresa spent an unsettled childhood in a variety of children's homes before being sent to Kendall House in Kent, which would become her prison and worst nightmare. At Kendall House, Teresa became a victim of a terrible regime, being injected with dangerously high doses of drugs and sexually abused. This cruel and vicious treatment, accompanied by punishments such as 163 days spent in solitary confinement, meant that it was not long before Teresa began to harm herself and even attempt to take her life. After three years of hell, Teresa thought her nightmare was over but another was about to begin. Teresa Cooper is a survivor. Fighting against a corrupt social care system, she has taken her case of abuse and drugging to parliament, and is fighting to prevent many more children from suffering at the hands of unethical doctors and abusive foster parents.

Teresa has now petitioned the UK Government to look in to this matter - I've just signed - I urge you all to follow suit. HERE

Fid

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PAPERBACK COMING SOON

Early Day Motion - SSRI ANTI-DEPRESSANTS

Dobbin, Jim

That this House welcomes the Department of Health's announcement to increase the provision of talking therapy for depression; notes Professor Irving Kirsch's study of the manufacturer's trials of the SSRI anti-depressants Prozac, Seroxat and Efexor and his conclusion that these drugs are not effective; notes that there is zero cost-effectiveness to drugs that do not work; further notes that large numbers of people are involuntary addicted to these drugs and suffer bizarre and severe side effects which leave them unable to work; calls upon the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence to review the approval of these drugs; calls upon the Government to provide withdrawal clinics for people addicted to prescribed drugs; further calls upon the Government to provide appropriate rehabilitation to bring these people back into the workforce; urges the Government to organise controlled withdrawal of these drugs from the market; and further urges the Government to investigate how the manufacturers and distributors obtained product licences and to implement the recommendations of the Fourth Report of the Health Committee, Session 2004-05, on the Influence of the Pharmaceutical Industry, HC42-1, including an independent review of the UK drug licensing authority the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency.

LINK

Finally, the penny has dropped!

Read the new book, The Evidence, However, Is Clear...The Seroxat Scandal

By Bob Fiddaman

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PAPERBACK COMING SOON

AN OPEN LETTER OF PROTEST TO GLAXOSMITHKLINE

A petition has been set up online. It's Canada based but you don't need to be a Canadian to sign it.

Click here for online description and to sign the petition: http://paxilharmschildren.com/22.html

AN OPEN LETTER OF PROTEST TO GLAXOSMITHKLINE CANADIAN SENIOR MANAGEMENT REGARDING PAXIL & PAXIL CR

NOT RESTRICTED TO CANADIAN RESIDENCY

We, the undersigned, believe that your drug Paroxetine HCL, marketed in Canada as Paxil & Paxil CR, is a defective pharmaceutical. We further believe that this drug has caused innumerable deaths and damage to Canadians, especially children, adolescents and young adults.

We further believe, as internal documents and published medical literature support, that you had evidence of this defect yet continued the unethical marketing of this drug to Canadian physicians.

You have devastated many Canadian families, and from documented numerous press reports, many others outside of Canada.

We demand that you present all known risks associated with Paxil to Health Canada and put a stop to any new prescriptions of the drug Paxil/ Paxil CR before you cause many more deaths and injury. A fund needs be put in place to cover all costs incurred by any person who has suffered due to your defective medication Paxil.

To the senior management of GSK: If you do not act now, we will pursue all available avenues under Canadian law to hold senior GSK executives personally responsible for future harm to Canadians. Canadian case law options will be explored.

Beginning in Canada, but not limited to, we are initiating a worldwide boycott of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) products, including Paxil, by refusing the use of any of the GSK drugs listed below.

Prescription Medicine: Advair, Albenza, Alkeran, Altabax, Amerge, Amoxil, Argtroban, Arixtra, Arranon, Augmentin, Avandamet, Avandia, Avandary, Avodart, Bactroban, Beconase, Bexxr, Boniva, Cefftin, Combivir, Coreg, Daraprim, Dexidrine, Digibind, Dryazide, Epivir, Epzicom, Flolan, Flonase, Flovent, Fortaz, Hycamtin, Imitrex, Lamictal, Lanoxin, Leukeran, Lexiva, Malarone, Mepron, Myleran, Parnate, Paxil, Relenza, Requip, Retrovir, Serevent, Tabloid, Timentin, Trizivir, Tykerb, Valtrex, Ventolin, Veremyst, Wellbutrin, Zantac, Ziagen, Zinacef, Zofran, Zocvirax, Zyban.Consumer Health Care: Abreva, Abtei, Alli, Alluna, Aquafresh, Astringosol, BC Powder, Beano, Beechams, Boost, Binaca, Breathe Right, Cetebe, Chap-et, Chlorhexamed, Cholinex, Commit Lozenge, Committed Quitters, Contact, Corega, Corsodyl, Cortal, Crocin, Debrox, Dequadin, Dr. Best, Ecotrin, Eno, Eumovate, Eunova, Fenbid, Feosol, FiberChoice, Flixonase, Formigran, Gaviscon, Geritol, Gly-Oxide, Goody's Powder, Granufink, Hibitane, Hinds, Horlicks, Libenar, Lactacyd, Macleans, Niquitin/Nicoderm, Nicorette, Nytol, Panadol, Polident, Poligrip Ultra, Ribena, Sensodyne, Sleep Aid, Tagamet, Tums, Zantac.

Vacines: Boostrix, Engerix-B, Hepatitis B Vaccine (rocombinant), Fluarix, FluLaval, Havrix, Infanrix, Pediarix, Twinrix

To sign the petition, please follow the link below. Thank you for your support!

http://www.PetitionOnline.com/2468abcd/petition.html

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By Bob Fiddaman

ISBN: 978-1-84991-120-7
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PAPERBACK COMING SOON

Abolish Suicide-Causing Anti-Depressants

Petition online:

My name is Camille Milke, My daughter's name is Sarina Angel, I lost her to Suicide 26 days ago. She was a victim of Suicide-Causing Anti-Depressants and I have formed a Coalition to ban such killers. My 21 year old, 95 lb daughter was prescribed an arsenal of six different prescriptions, all within a one month period of time and all by the same doctor. I am lobbying to put into place a Federal Law that will Abolish Suicide-Causing Anti-Depressants. I need Advocates to join me in my Lobbying Efforts. My Mission is for the World to hear Sarinas Voice; for she is no longer with me to speak. But she will be heard, through me, her Mother. For I live with her inside me and I will live out loud, her voice will be heard. My Crusade is to Abolish Suicide Causing AntiDepressants. There is strength in numbers, I need the support of those who hold this issue close to their hearts; to assure that other parents and their children live a happy life without pain and without suicide. My Campaign is to pass a Bill which will ultimately become Sarina's Law. PLEASE, PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION AND PASS IT ON TO EVERYONE IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK, ASK THEM TO DO THE SAME AND SO ON AND SO ON...

SIGN HERE

Back after a short break

If there was ever a time when I needed a break then this was it. Recent events kinda pushed me over the edge a little and a trip to Scotland to watch one of my fav bands was just what the doctor ordered. Big Country were a band who tragically lost their singer sometime ago. The weekend was a celebration of the birth of Big Country (25 years ago).

I met up with old friends and made new ones too and will see Big Country perform again on the up and coming mini tour of the UK.

For those interested there are a few videos on youtube of the two gigs I attended, this one from Glasgow and this from Aberdeen.

I owe a lot to music - AC/DC, Dixie Chicks and Big Country helped me through my Seroxat withdrawal - so thanks go in particular to these artists.

Fid

*Many thanks to the well wishes for my son Gary. He has now had his stitches removed and had them replaced with butterfly stitches. He's doing ok.

In my absence I received many emails regarding Paxil/Seroxat stories - I'm just going through them now but one that is of importance is the Seroxat Petition. Please visit the link and sign (if you haven't already) HERE

Watching you... watching me

10. 22 May 20:23 Glaxo., King Of Prussia, Pennsylvania, United States


Hi guys. Glad you are enjoying the free publicity

Yours

Bob

SIGN THE SEROXAT PETITION

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Withdraw-Seroxat/