Bipolar medication causes more suicide than it prevents

Suicide risk in placebo-controlled trials of treatment for acute manic episode and prevention of manic-depressive episode.
Storosum JG, Wohlfarth T, Gispen-de Wied CC, Linszen DH, Gersons BP, van Zwieten BJ, van den Brink W.
SourceMedicines Evaluation Board of the Netherlands, Kalvermarkt 53, PO-BOX 16229, 2500 BE Den Haag, The Netherlands. JG.Storosum@CBG-MEB.nl

Abstract
OBJECTIVE: The authors' goal was to investigate whether there is a greater suicide risk in the placebo arms of placebo-controlled studies of active medication for the treatment of acute manic episode and the prevention of manic/depressive episode. If so, this would be a strong ethical argument against the conduct of such studies.

METHOD: All placebo-controlled, double-blind, randomized trials of medication for the treatment of acute manic episode and the prevention of manic/depressive episode that were part of a registration dossier submitted to the regulatory authority of the Netherlands, the Medicines Evaluation Board, between 1997 and 2003, were reviewed for occurrence of suicide and attempted suicide.

RESULTS: In 11 placebo-controlled studies of the treatment of acute manic episode, including 1,506 patients (117 person-years) in the combined active compound group and 1,005 patients (71 person-years) in the combined placebo group, no suicides and no suicide attempts occurred. In four placebo-controlled studies of the prevention of manic/depressive episode, including 943 patients (406 person-years) in the combined active compound group and 418 patients (136 person-years) in the combined placebo group, two suicides (493/100,000 person-years of exposure) and eight suicide attempts (1,969/100,000 person-years of exposure) occurred in the combined active compound group, but no suicides and two suicide attempts (1,467/100,000 person-years of exposure) occurred in the combined placebo group.

CONCLUSIONS: Concern about greater risk of suicide or attempted suicide in the placebo group should not be an argument against the conduct of placebo-controlled trials for these indications, provided that appropriate precautions are taken.

The above is pure "copy cat" from : http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15800158

CONCLUSIONS ? How about Bipolar medication causes more suicide than it prevents !!!

Isnt that sick, they KILLED two people and then write: "Concern about greater risk of suicide or attempted suicide in the placebo group should not be an argument against the conduct of placebo-controlled trials ..."

Hello, the evidence is you killed 2 people.

I was given risperidone when I had insomnia and some minor mood swings, but a few days after I took it, my condition became far worse and I attempted suicide a few weeks later. I became better only after I stopped the drug.

I truly believe these drugs can be dangerous, especially the more potent ones like risperidone. Just 1mg gave me clear warning signs of tardive dyskinesia in under a month.

slither wrote:I was given risperidone when I had insomnia and some minor mood swings, but a few days after I took it, my condition became far worse and I attempted suicide a few weeks later. I became better only after I stopped the drug.

I truly believe these drugs can be dangerous, especially the more potent ones like risperidone. Just 1mg gave me clear warning signs of tardive dyskinesia in under a month.

Thank You for for sharing your experience, I also almost lost my life to suicide but from combo of meds.

People need to write about this. The distorters of truth use suicide to sell the very thing that causes it most, the drugs. Groups like NAMI the big pharma front group for example have that word suicide pasted on almost every page to promote there big pharma funders agenda.

People are working to stop this, for example: http://www.ssristories.com/

Anyone, if you have a story, tell it.

Copy_cat........you speak the truth. I've been attending the NAMI group for a few months, and ALL they want to talk about is medicines to treat conditions. That's it!

I am not diagnosed as having any kind of condition, and that allows me a origional, fresh perspective for this topic.

"Prevention is worth a pound of cure". (Benjamin Franklin)

molly775 wrote:Copy_cat........you speak the truth. I've been attending the NAMI group for a few months, and ALL they want to talk about is medicines to treat conditions. That's it!

I am not diagnosed as having any kind of condition, and that allows me a origional, fresh perspective for this topic.

"Prevention is worth a pound of cure". (Benjamin Franklin)

NAMI is bad news
Check this out, Here is a link to a google search for "NAMI + suicide " http://tinyurl.com/NAMI-SUICIDE

That link will open google and anyone can see how they write SUICIDE on every page as a scare tactic to sell there BIG PHARMA sponcers product that causes more suicide than prevents.
NAMI funding http://www.nami.org/Template.cfm?Sectio ... te_Support

I am looking online to see if the title of this topic is "controversial" or realy is like totaly true.


Search= Medication+prevents+suicide

http://www.google.com/search?q=Medicati ... ts+suicide

Authors retract paper claiming antidepressants prevent suicide
http://retractionwatch.wordpress.com/20 ... t-suicide/

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22624154

I thought patients "lack insight" when refusing medication and the coercive drug bullying was all about prevention of icky suicide ?