Posted by Lou Pilder on July 28, 2013, at 7:59:31
In reply to Re: Lou's response-Moarohn?, posted by SLS on July 28, 2013, at 6:57:47
> > be advised that the number 42,000 is a {generally accepted} number of those killed by psychiatric drugs
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> At one point, it was generally accepted that the world was flat.
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> The 42,000 appears to be a pseudofact gone viral. It's like a rumor. More and more people on the Internet rely on it in their writings without knowing its source. Apparently, there is no data source nor scientific study to scrutinize this assertion. Whatever the number, sadly, some percentage of deaths associated with antidepressants involves suicide. Psychotropic drugs are often chosen for suicide because they are convenient.
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> - ScottFriends,
It is written here,[...The 42000 appears to be a pseudofact...without knowing its source...Apparently, there is no data source nor scientific study to scrutinize this assertion...].
Be advised that the 42000 deaths just last year alone is a number that is generally accepted because of a great amount of research done to arrive at this number. The number of deaths is just for those that were killed by the drugs in the U.S. last year. Each country could report its own number of deaths from psychiatric drugs.
Here is one research article that only covers deaths from psychiatric drugs from sudden deaths related to cardiac events. Then there is research in relation to deaths from these drugs by other means.
Lou
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3349287
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