Contra Pfizer

My name is Lothar Schröder, I am German and 45 years old. I studied mathematics and actuaries at Cologne University. After graduation I have worked for several insurance companies as a fixed income portfolio manger. Now I work for a bank.
I am a widower since my wife Monika killed herself three years ago.

My wife took ZOLOFT, an SSRI-antidepressant manufactured by the pharma company Pfizer. At the time she took the drug, the package insert did not warn that ZOLOFT can make people suicidal. I blame the drug for her death, because she loved live and would never have done that. She had so many plans for the future. The medical documents show that it is very likely, that there was a causal relationship between the drug ZOLOFT and her suicide.

The risk of suicide was concealed in Germany by Pfizer until August 2005, when the European Commission forced the pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer to warn about the suicide risk for children and adolescents. Some weeks ago, Pfizer has increased the age at higher risk from 18 years to 25 years. But this is nonsense. All ages are at higher risk from these SSRI- Antidepressants!
Other SSRI antidepressants are Prozac (in Germany Fluctin) and Paxil. They all carry the same risk!
This blog is about these SSRI- antidepressants and CONTRA PFIZER.
It is named after one article by Dr. David Healy who has written a book on SSRI, it is titled “Let them eat Prozac”.
I have decided to fight Pfizer and tell my story to the public.

Samstag, 24. Oktober 2009

Pfizer und das FBI

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Liebe Leser,

wenn sie mehr über die Ermittlungen des FBI gegen Pfizer wegen der illegalen Vermarktung von Bextra und Celebrex erfahren wollen und die 2,3 Mrd. Strafzahlung an die US Regierung, so sollten sie hier mal nachschauen :http://www.fbi.gov/page2/sept09/pfizer_settlement_090209.html

http://www.fbi.gov/inside/archive/inside090309.htm

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Sonntag, 11. Oktober 2009

Pfizers secret Files , Risk of SUICIDE was evident when Zoloft was registered in Germany

 

Dear Mr. Herxheimer,

you may remember that  3 years ago you accompanied me and Prof. Müller-Oerlinghausen when we visited the Europeam Medical Agency EMEA to read some documents on SSRI antidepressants.

After more than three years I succeeded to get access to the files regarding the registration of Zoloft in Germany at the german regulatory agency BfArM.

My lawyer, Prof. Müller-Oerlinghausen from the Drug Commission of the German Medical Association and I have looked into the files of the german medical authorities and have found documents proving my claim, that the increased risk of suicide was evident when ZOLOFT was registered in Germany in 1996. The data from all clinical trials show that the rate of suicide among the patients taking sertraline was statistically significant higher than among the patients getting placebos or a different antidepressant. Also the death rate in the sertraline group was significantly higher. But the german expert ignored the data and claimed instead that sertraline even reduces the risk of suicide.

I hesitated for some time to give the documents to the press and to the public because the german authorites did not allow me to give them to anybody. But the public has a right to know the facts! The crucial pages are page 50 to 53 of the expert report (page 1-3 of the file Gutachten_1995_03.pdf) and the tables of the listing of all deaths. They show that until 1.sept. 1993  16940 patients taking part in medical studies took sertraline and 0.09% (=15 patients) were suicidal. In the control group of 9016 patients only 0.02% were suicidal (=2 patients). This diffenence ist statistically significant with more than 99 percent probability!

The tables show that among the 46 deaths of all clinical trials 34 patients had taken sertraline and among them 10 committed suicide (9 official suicides and one patients poisioned himself with carbon-monoxide). In the control group only one patient committed suicide.

All these data were ignored by the german expert, a very prominent german psychiatrist, who has written the report. Instead he claimed that Zoloft even reduces the risk of suicide. This report was the medical basis for the german medical agency to approve Zoloft in germany in 1996.

I will keep you informed.

best regards,

Lothar Schröder

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