Antidepressant Medications SSRIs & SNRIs

SSRIs: Does 1 Dose Fit All?

Although SSRI Antidepressant medications have been around for several decades we know so very little about them. Not even the pharmaceutical companies that make them fully understand how they work or their long term impact on brain chemistry. The FDA and watchdog groups have been warning for years that these medications are being over used and used for conditions that they were not originally designed for. We are only just now beginning to understand the impact on our bodies and for that matter their
their impact on society. Although doctors do not fulky understand how they work, if they dont work they simply increase the dose and give little thought to the impact.

SSRIs During Pregnancy Linked To Birth Defects

There is a mounting body of evidence linking antidepressant use during pregnancy to birth defects. Antidepressant use during pregnancy has been linked to physical birth defects like cleft palates, cleft lips and head deformities, and neurological developmental defects that we still today do not fully understand. A few studies have begun linking SSRI use during pregnancy to Autism. The potential connections between antidepressants and birth defects are clear but pharmaceutical companies refuse to admit the associated dangers.

Anti Depressants In America

Pharmaceutical companies have leveraged direct to consumer advertising, and their influence over doctors to market antidepressant to every corner of America. They have manipulated definitions of traditional diagnoses so antidepressants can be prescribed. All with little understanding of the full and true neurological impact of these medications. Millions of Americans are prescribed these powerful and addictive drugs for seemingly minor problems. Once on antidepressants most have to stay on them for extended periods of time, and face severe withdrawals when they try to come off them.

Anti Depressents And The Doping Of America

Through direct to consumer marketing and advertising pharmaceutical companies create demand for antidepressants. Who pressure doctors to prescribe the medication they saw in the T.V. advertisement. Doctors are influenced by Big PhRMA, through education classes and bonuses, to write those prescriptions. A mix of influence that has meant huge profits for pharmaceutical companies. But it has also lead to misuse, abuse and addiction of antidepressants. The overuse and abuse of antidepressants in the United States is at epidemic levels.