No Completed Suicides in the Clinical Trials

The FDA report also mentioned that no completed suicides were recorded among all the trial subjects. The agency failed to emphasize that the no suicides occurred on placebo either. Leaving depressed children drug-free did not produce a single suicide. This wholly contradicts the tendency to give drugs to prevent suicides. 

In addition, actively suicidal patients are excluded from clinical trials. They are the most vulnerable and therefore the ones that the drugs are most likely to push into committing suicide. 

The FDA authors concluded their report with an acknowledgment to the drug companies that supplied the data needed for this work. At no point do they respond to the massive evidence that some drug companies, including the manufacturers of Prozac and Paxil, purposely provide junk data calculated to mislead, and especially to minimize, the risks associated with their drugs (see chapter 14). 

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