Mental Health Blog - antidepressant treatment review

Ann Blake Tracy, PhD, Executive Director, International Coalition for Drug Awareness  has the following to say about how anti-depressants and anti-psychotics are causing diabetes and how the drug industry has come out with other drugs (also with other very dangerous side effects) in order to treat the diabetes that they created in the first place.

"For the past two decades antidepressants have caused more diabetes than anything we know of. The evidence is there to show exactly that. I know that the atypical antipsychotics have been the drugs accused of that and rightfully so. They are also serotonergic meds and can do the same, but most who take antipsychotics do so because of the antidepressant-induced or antidepressant withdrawal-induced psychosis they suffered previously. So the damage from the antidepressant upon the pancreas has already been established BEFORE the atypical antipsychotic is introduced. And once again I say clearly that these drugs do also produce the same damage to the pancreas, BUT antidepressants are getting off scott free and they should not be. With the introduction of the SSRIs upon the market diabetes skyrocketed. The atypical antipsychotics only continued that damage.

"Because of the propensity of these drugs to induce diabetes, it is critical that you continue to be informed about problems arising from treatments for diabetes."