[IMC-Editorial] MORE BLOOD ON GLAXOSMITHKLINE'S HANDS?

[The Disinformation Company]

MORE BLOOD ON GLAXOSMITHKLINE’S HANDS?
*Antidepressants May Have Driven Killer’s Rage, Reports NY Post *SSRI
Drugs Induce Psychosis, Suicidal Aggression, Says Disinformation’s ABUSE
YOUR ILLUSIONS.

Could prescription drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline’s antidepressant Paxil, now
banned
for children in Britain and France, have fuelled the New York City Hall
shooter
Othniel Askew’s vengeance?

So reports the New York Post. Following the murder of NYC Councilman James
Davies, police investigators found prescriptions for Paxil in the Askew’s
Brooklyn  townhouse. Davies’ July 23 assassination is one of the highest
profile tragedies yet in a disturbing trend of violence perpetrated by
users of
Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor antidepressants, as outlined by
ABUSE
YOUR ILLUSIONS contributor Richard Degrandpre.

DeGrandpre’s “The Lilly Suicides” presents the hidden case studies and
corporate secrets behind SSRI manufacturers GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, and
Eli
Lilly. Shattering the marketing myths accepted as conventional wisdom, 
DeGrandpre cites evidence that

* Prozac increases suicide rates among patients
* Paxil induces a range of physical and psychological agitations
* Drug companies like Eli Lilly have resorted to secret cash settlements
and
  legal subterfuge to evade damaging verdicts and bad publicity.

“The scary part is that [the patients] focus in on one individual and they
begin to have a paranoid reaction towards them—a hatred,” said Lisa Van
Syckel,
whose 15 year-old daughter mutilated herself with a razor and attempted
suicide
several times after being placed on Paxil. “One moment they’re calm and
the
next they hate you.”

Precedents exist for multi-million dollar awards against GSK, and judges
have
recognized SSRI antidepressants as factors influencing violent behavior. A
Wyoming family successfully sued GSK for $8 million dollars after Donald
Schell, a 60 year-old grandfather, murdered his sleeping wife, daughter
and
infant granddaughter before turning the gun on himself. In May 2001, an
Australian court acquitted a 74 year-old man of strangling his wife only
two
days after starting Zoloft.

Askew’s rage and violence snowballed in the days leading up to his attack.
“He
was just more and more obsessed that this was his seat,” said Anthony
Herbert,
a Brooklyn candidate for City Council and a confidante of Askew.

Said Dr. David Healy, a University of Wales professor whose testimony led
to
the banning of Paxil in Britain, “The drug can make you more anxious, more
anxious than you have ever been in your life.”

Richard Degrandpre, a visiting professor at St. Michael’s College in
Vermont,
is the author of “Ritalin Nation” and “Digitopia.” For more information on
Richard Degrandpre or The Disinformation Company, please contact Ralph
Bernardo
at 212-691-1605 (tel), 212-473-8096 (fax) or books at disinfo.com

“The Lilly Suicides” is part of The Disinformation Company’s ABUSE YOUR 
ILLUSIONS: The Disinformation Guide to Media Mirages and Establishment
Lies. Russ Kick, Editor. Published by The Disinformation Company.
Oversized softcover (8.5” x 11”) * 352 pp * US$24.95 * ISBN 0-9713942-4-5
Distributed to the Trade in the US & Canada by Consortium Book Sales &
Distribution; in the UK & Europe by Turnaround Publisher Services.

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