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Doctor in Pittman case blames Paxil and Zoloft for Christian boy's murder of grandparents

NOTE: This email was posted to the "drugawareness" Yahoo! Group by Dr. Ann Blake Tracy, expert witness in the Christopher Pittman murder trial. It is copied in its entirety and original format.

> To: drugawareness@yahoogroups.com
> From: atracyphd2@a...
> Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 13:52:44 EST
> Subject: [drugawareness] The Reason Behind
> Guilty Verdict in the Christopher Pittman Case
>
>
> The following is the letter I sent to the Post
> and Courier newspaper in
> Charleston, SC to discuss the problem in
> getting testimony entered in cases like
> Christopher Pittman's which involve
> antidepressants:
>
>    
> For 15 years I have researched, written.
> lectured, done radio, TV, newspaper
> and magazine interviews, etc., on the subject
> of antidepressants. For 13 years
> I have testified as an expert in court cases
> involving these drugs. Initially
> I was called as an expert in the Pittman case.
> In fact I contacted the
> family, reporters, officials, etc., when this
> first happened to alert them to the
> fact that this tragedy was likely triggered by
> an antidepressant. For me, all
> the clues were there - extreme violence, a
> CHILD committing the murder, the time
> of day it happened, the arson, etc. And as it
> turned out Christopher Pittman
> was indeed under the influence of two
> antidepressants: Paxil and Zoloft.
>
> Three years before this I had made the same
> type of call to the family of
> comedian Phil Hartman and his wife after their
> murder/suicide. That wrongful
> death case was settled by the makers of Zoloft.
>
> I want people to know the real reason for the
> guilty verdict in the
> Christopher Pittman case. The answer? Jurors
> are not allowed in court to be given all
> the evidence in these cases. Drug companies
> have always kept a strangle hold on
> these cases and influence them in every way
> possible. Experts are kept from
> giving testimony that would be the most damning
> evidence in the cases. Drug
> companies have a LOT of interest in doing this.
> First of all if their drugs are
> found to be the cause of these tragedies they
> stand to lose the over $100
> Million per day that antidepressants bring in.
> Second, they will face lawsuits for
> these tragic deaths. The vested interest is
> definitely there.
>
> So when jury member Christine Peterson made the
> statement, "We ripped into
> that evidence and that testimony. We went over
> our notes and the expert
> testimony over and over and over again," you
> need to know that they did not have ALL
> the evidence to rip into and go over and over.
>
> She went on to say that Christopher's
> deliberate behavior in the murders of
> his grandparents didn't fit with someone having
> an adverse reaction to a drug.
>
> But no one explained to the jury how these
> drugs work. No one was allowed to
> tell them that the drugs accumulate in brain
> tissue at a much higher level
> than what is in the blood and take a VERY long
> time to flush out of the brain
> because of those high levels. In other words
> the intoxication appears in the
> brain before the body and it lingers for a long
> time.
>
> These drugs increase the levels of the brain
> chemical, serotonin. Serotonin
> is the chemical that LSD mimics. When LSD goes
> into the brain, the brain reads
> it as a rush of serotonin. SSRI antidepressants
> block serotonin from leaving
> the brain so that it begins to build to higher
> and higher levels.
>
> So, what is the end result?
>
> It is a slow-fuse LSD effect that does not go
> away for some time because the
> serotonin is blocked in the brain. Had
> Christopher Pittman been slipped LSD
> daily for weeks, or even days, before this
> tragedy, no one would have been the
> least bit surprised at his actions - especially
> when this was a child being
> given such a powerful drug.
>
> One reporter made fun of Christopher's attorney
> calling him a "good Christian
> boy." But I can vouch for the fact that he is a
> good Christian boy - a good
> Christian boy who had a horrifying reaction to
> Zoloft. In fact when he was
> released during the trial, after three years in
> jail, everyone had to wait for
> nearly a half hour for him as he went back to
> get his Bible to bring with him.
> And before this tragedy he and his sister
> regularly held their own bible study
> sessions. What a shame they had not understood
> in those studies the warning
> from John in Rev. 18:21-24 about the sorceries
> (Greek translation is
> "pharmacopoeia" or "medicine from a pharmacy")
> that would come from the "great merchants
> of Babylon" and "deceive" the whole world in
> the end times producing as an end
> result the deaths of prophets, saints and many
> good men. I just had a case of
> a retired minister on these drugs who cut his
> wife's head off before drowning
> himself in a river.
>
> This past year we have learned a little about
> the lies and deceit about the
> "medicine from a pharmacy" we call
> antidepressants as the FDA, the Congress and
> Senate and the attorney general of NY demanded
> studies kept hidden from the
> public be released for independent scrutiny.
> This scrutiny resulted in black
> box warnings being placed upon antidepressants
> in those of Christopher's age -
> the strictest warnings the FDA can impose on
> drugs next to banning them.
>
> You should also be made aware that Christopher
> is FAR FROM ALONE in facing
> similar charges. I have cases of children as
> young as six who have committed the
> same crime while under the influence of one of
> these drugs. This is a new
> phenomenon in our society developing over the
> past two decades since the SSRI
> antidepressants were released. Our children are
> NOT cold blooded murderers!
>
> Clearly, due to the massive brainwashing by the
> legal drug lords, hardly a
> soul is aware of the strongly intoxicating
> effects of the SSRI antidepressants,
> even though the research has existed for
> decades. For instance, besides the
> LSD effect, how many are aware that . . .
>
> #1 As I submitted to the FDA in 1991, and again
> this past year during the FDA
> hearings on antidepressant dangers, brain wave
> patterns of a patient having
> toxic reactions to one of these antidepressants
> demonstrate the person's brain
> to be in seizure activity while in a total
> anesthetic deep sleep state and
> dreaming. So while they appear "normal" to us,
> they are in fact unconscious and
> acting out dreams or nightmares. This is called
> a REM Sleep Behavior Disorder
> and 80% of those in this state hurt themselves
> or someone else. We now know
> that 86% of those being diagnosed with it are
> patients on antidepressants.
>
> The world witnessed this same reaction in the
> tragic murder/suicide case of
> comedian Phil Hartman and his wife. She even
> asked friends to come over to tell
> her if Phil had really been shot or if she was
> having a nightmare because she
> did not know what was real after she shot him
> as he slept.
>
> In a Connecticut case Kelly Silk, a young
> mother on Prozac, attacked her
> family with a knife, then set the house on fire
> killing all but her 8 year old
> daughter who ran to the neighbors. As she stood
> bleeding and screaming for help
> on their porch she exclaimed, "Help! Help! My
> mommy is having a nightmare!" Out
> of the mouths of babes perhaps we will
> understand these nightmares for what
> they are. She understood that this was
> something her mother would do ONLY in a
> nightmare, never in reality. This is why
> Christopher Pittman took the lives of
> the two people who meant the most to him - it
> was his worst nightmare.
>
> Was Christopher or his grandparents warned that
> this medication may cause him
> to act out his worst nightmare? How about Kelly
> Silk? Or was Brynn Hartman
> warned? Not one of them.
>
> #2 These antidepressants were introduced in
> America by the same company who
> led us to believe, when they patented LSD as a
> prescription medication in 1956,
> that their new "miracle drug" would cure mental
> illness and alcoholism and
> aid in psychoanalysis. 
>
> #3  Dr. Candace Pert, one of the developers of
> the serotonin binding process
> that made these drugs possible, came out
> against the drugs 7 1/2 years ago
> warning of their dangers and calling them
> "monsters" which she is "alarmed" to
> have had anything to do with their development.
> (Dr. Pert headed the brain
> chemistry department at NIH for 13 years.)
>
> #4  Medical research has shown over the past
> five decades that when a drug
> impairs the metabolism of serotonin so that the
> levels of serotonin begin to
> build up - the exact so called "therapeutic
> effect" of antidepressants - the
> following results are to be expected: impulsive
> murder and/or suicide - especially
> very violent suicide, violent crime, hostility,
> arson, substance abuse,
> psychosis, mania, organic brain disease,
> depression, tension and anxiety which
> appear from out of nowhere, autism, anorexia,
> reckless driving, Alzheimer’s,
> impulsive behavior with no concern for
> punishment, argumentative behavior,
> migraines, hot flashes, pains around the heart,
> difficulty breathing, a worsening of
> bronchial complaints - to name just a few.
>
> #5 This case is the first time an FDA reviewer
> of a group of drugs, who
> actually was involved in the approval of the
> drugs, has come forward offering to
> testify that one of these drugs has caused a
> violent crime. Dr. Richard Kapit,
> who was involved in the approval process for
> the SSRI antidepressants and
> oversaw these drugs for the FDA, saw an article
> on Christopher's case in the New
> York Times and contacted Christopher's attorney
> asking to testify in his behalf.
>
> The evidence is most definitely exists on these
> drugs and when we can clean
> up our courts by throwing industry and their
> power and money out, the truth
> will prevail. After spending years studying the
> science behind antidepressants,
> how they ever got approved is beyond me! These
> are extremely dangerous drugs
> that should be banned as similar drugs have
> been banned in the past.
>
> As a society we once thought LSD and PCP to be
> miracle medications with large
> margins of safety in humans. As I have
> explained previously, we have never
> seen drugs so similar to LSD and PCP as these
> SSRI antidepressants. All of these
> drugs have similar effects on serotonin and
> produce dreaming during periods
> of wakefulness. And if we as a society do not
> soon wake up to the serotonin
> nightmare being produced by these drugs there
> will not be a family in this
> country without a black wreath on their door.
>
> Dr. Tracy
> ___________________________
>
> Ann Blake Tracy, Ph.D.,
> Executive Director, International Coalition For
> Drug Awareness
> Website: www.drugawareness.org
> Author: Prozac: Panacea or Pandora? - Our
> Serotonin Nightmare
> & CD or audio tape on safe withdrawal: "Help! I
> Can't Get
> Off My Antidepressant!"
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> ___________________________

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