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strange story out of florida this morning where the mother of three children drove into the ocean off her daytona beach. the pregnant mom spoke of demons before driving into the atlantic. police say they've never seen anything like this. the tiny city of newburgh new york is trying to come to grips with the deaths of three young children who died when their mother drove them into the hudson river among the victims are two year old lance peer and his a loving month old sister babs we should take nothing for granted not our loves nor our lives our families or friends even a sanity one minute all is well the next we're plunged into darkness unable to
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process what is real and what is mercury's. autumn stringin realized this old too young is the summer after i turned eight she should not be in line and she knows it was the moment. that shattered trust. you know how do you know how to trust anybody after that. forced to confront a mystery beyond comprehension she spent decades haunted in search of answers in pursuit of peace when something like killing all six of her children. made sense enough to put the kids in the bronco and drive into the river i see it. gravels again water flying and kids screaming and somehow she managed to dig it up to back out of that. and that's an incredible victory for somebody in that state of
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mind you know there are other mothers don't win that battle. autumn's mom did eventually die by suicide alone on a country tony steph and was now we're done with. children. i'm laying in bed at night in my room. seeing joe house full of mourning and just shattered the whole family just shattered the children chattered me it has become so commonplace irrational acts and horrific scenes that we've almost become numb to it we've seen them in schools and public spaces in homes and churches. all over the news try as we might to understand them we can't try as we might to ignore them they call to us still we call the paramedics. they tried the roughly the reviver. outside their about another source of patients but.
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it was cold it's two thousand and four and the downings world has just been shattered his daughter a victim of an unimaginable act of violence but it was how this eleven year old girl died the truly horrified the world how cats candace hanged herself when canisters died we just we asked ourselves how could we not know she was then unhappy the downings didn't realize it at the time of course but her case was not a rare event no candace was far from alone she started on this drug somewhere around january and these things make you unafraid they make you do things you wouldn't do normally they make you able to put a rope around your neck and hang yourself. they were still dizzy from death traumatized and broken when they solve the mystery the drugs responsible they say
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a cold s s r i's and they're among the best selling drugs in the world s s r i's better known as antidepressants these are some symptoms of the previous psychiatric drugs like assess our eyes have been defended with religious zeal by their believes and damned by others as some of the most dangerous drugs on the planet distinguishing truth from fiction has been a challenge and this is placed the public in the an enviable position of deconstructing the scientific and medical dog on their own in the midst of a thirty years social experiment as director of the national institutes of mental health thomas insel has been at the center of a storm of contradictions about the use of these drugs so i think we have to be very humble about this right now because we've often been so self-congratulatory because we have after all many people feel made great strides. the numbers don't really support that dr insoles candor is sure to shock and upset many on all sides
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of the debate the word failure is one few have dad to utter fundamentally why we failed here why has the suicide rate not come down why have as they measures disability whatever those might be why have those continued to go up instead of down well all the numbers are going in the wrong direction so we're already failed what's gone wrong here a lot of people say it's because of stigma and access the fact is that actually more people are getting more treatment than ever before so it's hard for me to poit believe that i would just submit that from the end i am age perspective. the answer about why we failed is a little more disruptive and that answer is that we don't know enough to hear the director of the and i am h. say now that all of the axle taishan about psychotropics. from the media from academia from the profession from governments were not merited is unsettling off to
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billions of prescription drugs from most of the drugs that we take for our other asked in a class of new mental health but he has to in the physicians about the suicide side effect implicate the f.d.a. . writing line or some people who already know at some f. that can't be true they simply can't conceive of that fact in front of me her heart had stopped and when it doesn't work and it's so he says he realized have every construct of modern society the loss of his daughter coupled with the shocking truth see uncovered through his medical research led him to write death by prescription and become one of canada's most od and proponents of informed choice. i think good. old situations are coming back and the stand pulled big
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bet on the stand that ayesha is they are not in favor of the nato is coming good to the ticket of the bordeaux for the shot but on the other side i think if they came back the old to the impression of confrontation that's a mistake on the western side through especially by the americans the holes on the other side. we all willingly accepted the risk of being shot wounded taken prisoner but noone was signed up to be friggin poisoned by our own people of seeing stuff that was nuclear biological and chemical products the said do not find the truck tires all types of styrofoam polystyrene batteries trucks there was a complete denial i think at all levels of government that there was any connection between berm pits and what these brave soldiers were suffering from to compensate
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every soldier marine airman and sailor that was on the ground that are complaining about illnesses from their exposure from the burn pits would really literally send to be a pro and they don't want to pay it so the waiting and decades a lot of those soldiers will die in time and they won't have to pay a. call for help and get the middle finger to be used to model the slow. delayed and i hope you don't. here's what people have been saying about redacted in the night sixty two full on awesome well the only show i go out of my way to lunch you know really what it is that really packs a punch oh please yap is the john all. r.t. america is doing the same we are apparently better than that. and see people you never heard of love attack to the next president of the world bank very.
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seriously send us an e-mail. to give to us i live it here for yourself then. we have other things in this files and this is you know. why some people's must take our thing all the power just for themselves as it is the.
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box will smith kline is just paid the largest fine in the history of the united states related to fraud and criminal acts for a drug company they paid three billion dollars for illegal marketing of paxil wellbutrin and avandia paxil and avandia both having been drugs that cost a lot of deaths due to adverse drug reactions and they paid it in cash this action constitutes the largest health care settlement in united states history it was in their business plan because those three drugs in the years involved sold twenty five billion dollars worth of the drugs are marked up in the thousands of percent psychiatric and scientific ethics would cost a. side in exchange for profits no one went to jail and real people paid the price . printing words heard on his sleeve he just adored social
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situations he loved to sing from a very young leaves music was part of our life and part of what he he adored and what i miss most about brennan is kamen it always give me a hug their dad i've known him a hug i still think to this day he's going to walk to the door we were driving not too long ago nancy myself and other son hayden and i look in the backseat and he was sleeping and i went to look to see of brennan was there to start a habit if he was sleeping until i saw brennan walk out of this house he was very robotic. brennan where are you going it's ok mom i just gotta go put on his winter coat brennan it's hot out today it's ok mom i just gotta go put on his winner halle said brennan it's hot out today you won't need that it's ok mom i've just got to go and i said i need you here for a minute no it's ok mom i've just got to go and that are they could see to me and this was a child who was very articulate who would who is over boasts that sometimes he
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would just say ok and after an effort ready for days prior brennan went to the family doctor with a chest cold and inexplicably came home with a sample pack of the antidepressant super next at the time of his disappearance he was exhibiting the classic signs of. i let him go out the door and that was the last time i saw him alive. and he brought his rope from the local store before long other teens and hit close to home again when friends and constituents faced the same hora he in the mccartney's had my wife call my son are going to say we were inside what happened he said. description drug involved i reached out turns at one point with the pieces together it was an inquest we will show that paxil didn't play upon us to see whether or not antidepressants
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acknowledge that this medication can increase a killer patients but they don't their current that the the jury made twelve key recommendations these were detailed recommendations to prevent similar doubts six of them were aimed at the drug industry and of the drug company so if they didn't think that paxil caused or played a critical role in sarah khan's death they certainly wouldn't put six recommendations aimed at the pharmaceutical industry in their decision regenerative forty pounds of fury oh goodness yes and i was not easy to deal with my son joseph at that time was fifteen years of age extremely ill it didn't matter what it was very very violent the drop of a pin would set me off you could actually say he would be everything that a schoolyard shooting is made out of. in the years after watching river with her children inside the mental states of both autumn string him and her brother joseph
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steffen deteriorated whether the cause was genetics or sheer trauma they both were diagnosed with bipolar disorder just like their mom joseph in particular seemed headed for disaster he was just a sweetheart but boy when he hit puberty he he really went over and became incredibly manic and incredibly violent in his mania he was he was scary my dad was scared joseph was medicated with lithium. i believe he was taking seven hundred fifty milligrams of of lithium and he was up to nine hundred milligrams of let him for a period of time to try and control it was i having huge mood swings yeah that stuff definitely started i mean i've been through a lot of pain with the death of my mother and various events that happened in my life after my mother had committed suicide. i was the most violent person that i knew and i used to wander the streets at night and i'd go
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pick fights with the local people and i had this aluminum bat that i had found and i beat it against the curb so it was just jagat in torn up and you know that was my weapon of choice and i mean i'm lucky i never touched anybody with that thing. my children are already saying to me come on. you've got to get them out of the house he's going to kill somebody you've got to do something that didn't matter what we have just suicide or he's going to have to be institutionalized a thousand miles away or tim was also struggling desperately now married with a child she too was caught in the grip of a mother's madness at that point in my life i just felt like everything was ashes you know i just lost my mom to suicide my diagnosis had been upgraded so i now is rapid cycling bipolar one with schizophrenia tendencies which was it seemed really
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dark like i wasn't going to get over that. and so i had actually planned to commit suicide with one child ingesting a five drug cocktail and contemplating suicide and the other engulfed by violent thoughts tony stephens family was under siege. so i was left in a terrible state a terrible state where i had to find an answer because you see my family was literally coming unglued before my eyes i was going to lose my family stephan resolved to find an answer and prevent any further suicides in his family. as part of the research for his book called the book of woe gary greenberg was imbedded with psychiatrists as they debated the new edition of the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders the d.s. and five all along it's been clear that the d.s.m.
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is centrally a work of fiction it's the way that psychiatrists have of saying if if there are mental disorders if they exist in nature the ways illnesses like diabetes exist than disease or what they are changing the way we understand ourselves is intimately related to the development of the diagnostic and statistical manual the d.s.m. is often referred to as the bible of psychiatric disorders it is the quintessential diagnostic instrument over four hundred thousand mental health professionals in the united states use the d.s.m. and in order to get third party reimbursement one has to have a d.s.m. diagnosis so the d.s.m. is extremely instrumental in two thousand and five two respected academics lisa kos grove of you must boston and sheldon prim skee of tufts released their investigation into conflicts of interest between d.s.m. four panel members and the pharmaceutical industry i think the data really speak
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for themselves the strongest for the mood disorders and schizophrenia and psychotic disorders one hundred percent of those panel members and yes that's right every single panel member has financial says with a pharmaceutical industry and if you look at it in terms of the sheer amount of money the antidepressant market and the anti-psychotic markets are the fourth and fifth leading therapy classes of drugs with annual sales of twenty billion and fourteen billion respectively there are one hundred seventy d.s.m. panel members that's the total inclusive of all the working groups of those one hundred seventy panel members fifty six percent had at least one financial société . the pharmaceutical company. the d.s.m. decision maker actually the last thirty years have reverberated in some. ways.
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my dad and i have always been really close you know both my parents did everything for my brother and i was you know if there's a spark he wanted to pick up or if there's something that we wanted to do we did everything my dad built my brother halfpipe in our backyard and it was like a professionally built half pipe like this thing was phenomenal and we had kids from all over the neighborhood come there to ride it because it was huge there's nothing more accelerating the being at that high in everything that i've ever done it was magical moments our daughter jen was born in one thousand nine hundred and our son he was born in one thousand nine hundred two and both my wife and i took a nurturing approach to parenting didn't get everything they wanted but they certainly had a lot of opportunity when they were young and it was it was wonderful the calm i calls perfect family began to run hinge shortly after david began taking paxil i really didn't know very much more mental illness until when i was forty five years older than i had my first major depression and i was treated with paxil and in fact
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when i look back on it now there's no question i was manic when i was on packs of the first time that was the very first time that or even look at issues around drugs and side effects of drugs i noticed that there was a big difference before he started taking medication and then while he was taking the medication i remember him snapping on me about something very small and i remember him spending so much time in his office i remember him just being just being more quiet and not being himself and looking stressed out and. just fucking different she was just this tremendous discomfort with being on that particular truck and really made me wonder you know should i be on it.
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they call me a useful idiot i'm a useful idiot you called me a useful idiot a useful idiot useful idiots go expressing my opinions there are thousands of us doing it behind his record is a simple strategy we attack person instead of talking about the art of what's next why stop me from getting this close to the white house i'm with a group code pink why not ban the color pink why not stretch beyond the rock i should be sent to the town because i'm going to try to break me although we'll put up with a long time of this sort of nonsense you don't scare me and i'll continue to voice my opinion i'll continue to speak out i'm in good company i'm in good company you give me you want to you because we are free thinkers. one hundred years ago russia was consumed by revolution and unprecedented violence
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is not an understatement to say the russian revolution or. was a defining moment of the twentieth century how did it change russian. please be sure. to keep it as i live it hear hear yourself in. front of. leno. i d. yeah. yeah. we have many things in the smiles and this is it you know for everyone and why some people's minds so take our thing all the power just for themselves and to see about that. we.
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thank you thank you thank you thought. oh whoops thank you thank you. through you through through thank you thank you thank you.
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but imma putin says the united states is attacking free speech by forcing all to you to register as a foreign agent adding a tit for tat response from russia. is on the table. we have power play in the middle east intensifies the saudi arabia bombs yemen's defense ministry while also being accused of declaring war on lebanon. these are live pictures coming from barcelona this is where thousands of people are protesting on catalonia as national day they're demanding the release of the jailed former leader of the region continues political crisis. cia whistle blower john kiriakou was removed from an e.u. parliament panel at the very last moment simply for co-hosting a radio.
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