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Do Antidepressants Cure or Create Abnormal Brain States? (PLoS Medicine)
Editor's note: This is a technical article reprinted, with permission, from the PLoS Medicine Journal (a peer-reviewed, open-access medical journal that's bucking the system by daring to print the truth about drugs, depression and pharmaceuticals). This is not casual reading, but if you want to learn why the current brain chemistry model of depression pushed by psychiatrists and drug companies is flatly false, this is it.

Michael Jackson, Demerol, and Prescription Drug Abuse
Did Michael Jackson die from a prescription drug overdose? As I write this it is barely 12 hours since the death of the "King of Pop" and rumors are circulating that there is a strong possibility an overdose of Demerol, a prescription pain killer similar to morphine might have triggered or caused his cardiac arrest.

The Danger of Antidepressants
Antidepressants often present unknown and overlooked dangers that can severely harm a person.

Antidepressant Horror Stories
While the pharmaceutical companies would like the public to believe that SSRI and similar medications do not have serious side effects past the occasional upset stomach or mild headache, the internet has enabled the true scope of adverse effects and conditions caused by these drugs to become known.

The Brainwashing Of Our Doctors
In many instances doctor’s judgment has been compromised by the overwhelming one-sided education they are being given by the giant pharmaceutical conglomerates. The result is unnecessary medication use, poor outcomes and sometimes dangerous results for patients all to satisfy the drug company’s insatiable need to make a buck and keep their stock price up.

The Prozac-Cocaine Connection
The SSRI or selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor was introduced as a ‘miracle’ drug that would greatly reduce the side effects of the previous class of tricyclic antidepressants with little or no downside. Unfortunately, the pharmaceutical companies are not telling the whole story.

Over-the-Counter Serelax Winning Fight Against Depression & Anxiety
More consumers are treating depression and anxiety disorders using all-natural, over-the-counter antidepressants like Serelax, proven to be as effective as the leading prescribed meds, but void of many of the attached, adverse side effects that prescription antidepressants are known to cause.

The Most Widely Prescribed Medication in the USA in 2007
Side effects or not, antidepressants were the most widely prescribed medications in the USA in 2007 Increased antidepressant use is said to result from direct consumer advertising which leads people to request antidepressants from doctors

Drug Addiction Treatment Program
Behavioral therapies can include counseling, psychotherapy, support groups, or family therapy. Treatment medications offer help in suppressing the withdrawal syndrome and drug craving and in blocking the effects of drugs. In addition, studies show that treatment for heroin addiction using methadone at an adequate dosage level combined with behavioral therapy reduces death rates and many health problems associated with heroin abuse.

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