caused the death of his daughter vanessa he founded an advocacy group drug safety canada vanessa collapse in front of me her heart had stopped and basically she stood up to go up stairs when you lose a child your world is upside down and i was thrown into a study of medicine of medical jargon of how the health care system works and when it doesn't work and i didn't ask for it but it was my way of dealing with the loss of an s. or so it was in a sense my way of grieving and it started the day she died for five years young investigated the practices of the medical and drug industries and in doing so he says he realized how pharmacy influence had permeated 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.

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coastal we've seen on t.v. easy show during the stage. it was one of the a bunch. of the proceeds go to the imus show do you can you get other corners will let you tell us maybe of getting us all my space station up us they. will smith kline 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 caused 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 saw twenty five

billion dollars worth in the drugs are marked up in the thousands of percent psychiatric unscientific ethics were cast aside in exchange for profits no one went to jail and real people paid the price. and worries hard honestly he just my door and social situations he loved to sing from a very young needs 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 he that i do and give me 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 our other son hayden and i looked in the backseat and hayden was sleeping and i went to look to see if brennan was there to start a habit if he was sleeping to. i saw brennan walk out of this house he was very robotic. brain away 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 ollie could say to me and this was a child who was very articulate who would who was so verbose that sometimes she would just say ok enough and afro ready four days prior brennan went to the family doctor with a chest cold and inexplicably came home with a sample pack of the antidepressant supreme x. at the time of his disappearance he was exhibiting the classic signs of agathe easier i let him go out the door and that was the last time i some of the life and he brought us rope from the local store. and drove to a conservation area texted us and then hang them

self. before long other teens across the canadian province of ontario would dying just like brennan did for terence young the problem hit close to home again when friends and constituents faced the same hora he in the mccartney's had my wife call my son hard to the phone and we heard him say a few words and the bang the phone down and ran upstairs i was the quite upset and we were inside what happened he said sarah curran hanged herself and we had met sarah who was eighteen years old just a few weeks before in our back deck they were part of the same social group and hopefully play guitar and sing songs and do karaoke or whatever. because in my own research the first thing i thought about when an otherwise healthy young person dies is was a prescription drug involved and of course it was in fact there's no doubt my mind

that paxil and withdrawing from paxil was the cause of sarah carland demise her suicide of a young woman hanging herself is an extremely rare thing to happen she went home one saturday night at two o'clock in the morning took off her makeup and hanged herself in her parents' basement i reached out to turn to one point because i was in contact with coroner's office i was starting to put pieces together it wasn't until after sarah is death. that we actually started to connect the dots were brief others we have a great connection with her and so pick up the inquest doctors would talk to us after we fought hard for an inquest because we needed to understand and after syria had died then we started doing research on the drug that's were really found out about the drug that's the first time we realised that paxil one of the side effects was suicidal thinking is videotape of the coroner's council saying on the very

first day of the inquest we will show that paxil didn't play a part as a recurrence death well the whole point of the inquest was to see whether or not and the presence played a part in syria's death but courts acknowledge that this medication can increase thoughts of suicide in particular patients but they don't think that the medication played a role in sarah carlin stuff that the inquest the odds were stacked against the condoms the jury i think was very courageous but they were specifically instructed by the coroner that they couldn't actually find paxil as a cause 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 carlin's death they certainly wouldn't put six recommendations aimed at the pharmaceutical industry in there are

a good decision. regenerated 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 that set me off you could actually say he would be everything that a schoolyard shooting is made out of. in the years after debbie steffen drove the family's nine hundred ninety into a raging river with her children inside the mental states of both autumn string him and her brother joseph steffen deteriorated whether the cause was genetics or sheer trauma they both were diagnosed with bipolar disorder just like the 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 lithium . 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 of i used to wander the streets at night and i'd go 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 jag it 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 dad you got to get them out of the house he's going to kill somebody you've got to do something dad didn't matter what we threw at this situation it wasn't going to get better and i'm going to lose him to a 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 now is rapid cycling bipolar one schizophrenia tendencies which was it seemed really 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. 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 then 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 for themselves the strongest statistics include the panel members 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 cessations with the 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 says yes or the pharmaceutical company. the d.s.n. decision makers actions over the last thirty years have reverberated in sad and profound ways. 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 spot he wanted to pick up or if there is 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 or darjeeling 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 car my clothes perfect family began to on 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 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 i were even looked 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 just just tremendous discomfort with being on that particular drug it really made me wonder you know should i be honest. about your sudden passing i've only just learnt you worry yourself in taking your last bang turn. your act caught up to you as we all knew it would i tell you i'm sorry i could so i write these last words in hopes to put to rest these things that i never got off my chest. i remember when we first met my life turned on each

breath. but then my feelings started to change you talked about war like it was again still some are fond of you those that didn't like to question our arc and i secretly promised to never be like it said one does not leave a funeral the same as one enters my mind it's consumed with death this one different i speak to you now because there are no other takers. claimed that mainstream media has met its maker. days ago the u.s. secretary of defense james mattis updated in revised america's global defense strategy it is a dark vision of the world and calls for massive defense spending what he calls a defense strategy critics say is a blueprint for the u.s. without it. but rather the spare.

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russia is complicit in the assad regime's atrocity if you want to use judge and prosecutor russia is running from the facts your behavior exposes your true motives methods for investigating chemical weapons in syria see the russian and american envoys go head to head at the un as moscow is blamed for every incident regardless of who carried out the attack also if it comes out. the usa chief says the destruction in the syrian city of rocket is beyond description after america's devastating bombing campaign there against islamic state terrorists. then remains silent film deals to sell tanks to encourage healthy germany's foreign minister condemns to use events against kurds in syria plus dubbed a platform to fight you some extremist propaganda and you survey does show that

most people in the u.k. on social media to be better regulate. hello there well can you watching r.t. international this wednesday morning which just turned ten o'clock. now there's been a fiery exchange between russia and america at the u.n. over how chemical attacks in syria should be investigated russia wants to ensure future probes require experts to visit the sites of alleged incidents i whether the proposal was strongly rejected by the us russia is complicit in the assad regime's atrocities you are acting as judge and prosecutor russia is running from the facts your behavior exposes your true motives russia has the audacity to lecture the security council this is a long political spectacle for not going to accept any russian proposal that

undermines our ability to get to the truth we should at least have taken a look at the draft before rejecting it russia all on its own killed the mechanism we had specifically tasked to identify those responsible q what do you need an investigative mechanism for before an investigation you have in queues the syrian government of using chemical weapons. well that did come during a debate on how to tweak the so-called joint investigative mechanism a system used to assess chemical attacks in syria the emergency meeting was held after the us secretary of state claimed another attack took place in syria on monday and he claimed that russia should shoulder the blame for that and other incidents were conducted the. russia ultimately burrs responsibility for the victims in this and countless other syria targeted with chemical weapons since russia became involved in syria probably is it hasn't even been confirmed that

these attacks even happened let alone who is responsible and there are only two sources saying this and both are notoriously pro rubble this whole blame russia game continued at the six. the council on that same nikki haley's statements were more about russia than anything else she even accused russia of killing the joint investigative mechanism but at the meeting russia said that the joint investigative mechanism became a political tool and called for an impartial investigation into all cases of chemical weapons use in syria including the joint investigative mechanisms new reports were not going to accept any russian proposal that undermines our ability to get to the truth or that politicizes what must be an independent and impartial investigation. of the fact that the us dismissed all proposal right from the start reveals the truth that they do not need an impartial investigative mechanism even though several other member states supported the proposal of a new impartial investigation the us rejected it saying that it's ready to bring

back the old joint investigative mechanism quote but all other suggestions are unacceptable. so american reporting there well the mechanism she mentioned was established back in twenty fifteen by the un security council long with the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons together they threw up several reports of keys in the syrian government of carrying out chemical attacks it included one of the deadly stephen county q in april last year however experts did not actually visit the site before reaching their conclusions the mandate for the joint team's investigation is now expired and moscow just requests that changes should be made in particular the site visit should be part of any future investigation so the samples could be taken directly it also underlined the importance of eyewitness accounts which have been heavily relied upon in the past by the un rick stirling from the syria solidarity movement points out the timing of the new chemical attack allegations just come right ahead of expected peace talks

we've seen that in the past day or to be or to mean that negotiations would start it would be so climb up an atrocity and again it's what we're seeing out happened here so it's really sad the the it looks like there's a possibility of building the conflict in syria but evidently there are some forces that just want to prolong it and keep it going it's really sad and just one for all it's pretty stunning hypocrisy here at the moralizing from the united states which i have which actually is the only current nuclear weapons in the world war two that used our massive amounts of chemical weapons. in vietnam and massive amounts of you directly i mean iraq so the country that used chemical weapons to the greatest extent. among all countries is in no position to be more allies. or threats to this and blaming moscow for

chemical attacks in syria our senior correspondent gas the f. looks at what responsibility washington should take for its involvement in the conflict the end justifies the means they say some things no matter how horrible just have to be done because they're hard core fighters they have to be rooted out this is an ugly business but it is necessary business it's only after when the dust settles and you see what you've done that you start having second thoughts this is when you say damn what did i just do the devastation goes back as far as you can see it is almost beyond description how deep the damage is as many as a thousand strikes a month on record alone just strikes not including hillary tags and all that more than eighty percent of the city was deemed unfit to be in by the un

a city hall but raised so let's start with the obvious incredible work has to be done just to get people back into their homes except we won't pay here is the disclaimer stabilisation not reconstruction the us will help fix the pipes but someone else is going to have to sort out the rest of this mess no sir the coalition freed you you do the rest we humanity ariens including the un do not have access to iraq a city because of the presence of explosive hazard contamination which is endangering people trying to return to iraq a city and it's also endangering humanitarian access over two hundred people have died while trying to return to their homes and hundreds more have been injured from our understanding of the reports that we have only a limited number of neighborhoods in iraq

a city has been cleared for returns and that's mainly in the outskirts. so who is going to pay to rebuild an entire city the guys who helped the straw it say they won't the civilians returning from tents in refugee camps the syrian government which doesn't even control raca who. remark thousands of protesters across europe are rallying against turkey's military operation against kurds in syria demonstrations were held in and in athens and london as people waved kurdish flags and carried antiwar banners a similar protests took place in the german city of mannheim to the people there were angered at german made tanks when used in the turkish offensive with more is peter all of. the turkish military operation against the kurds in syria has caused some consternation here in germany however officials in berlin say that they're

only somewhat concerned about the actions of ankara the military confrontation between turkey and the kurdish forces carries rich in and the last thing syria needs is another standoff imagine the surprise when german saw the footage of turkey's military offensive against the kurds and they saw german made leopard tanks as the speed ahead of that offensive it comes at a time when germany's foreign ministers the rio is pushing up great for the tanks supplied by to ankara this includes things like upgrades to the mine protection abilities that they would have with rumors that other upgrades are in the pipeline for the hundreds of tanks provided by germany to turkey this is all seen is part of a charm offensive by the german foreign minister as he seeks to normalize relations between germany and turkey. we are disturbed when we

speak about nazi mentality. but you do apply this type of mentality in germany. does you know it's effect without question turkey snatches comparisons must stop unfortunately we see that these comparisons have not stopped. however when it comes to questions over whether german tanks are being used against the kurds. and says from the german government the norm the ground there's no official stance from the defense ministry from the foreign ministry or from those who deal with exports at the ministry of economics here no tanks see no tanks speak of no tanks is the lying coming from the german government at the moment but when it comes to the german people they don't seem convinced that they should be providing arms to turkey right now i don't think so why not.