EMPOWER/TRUEHOPE MED CAUSES SUICIDE? | ADHD Information
One of our resident trolls posted this as an accepted medication.
EMPOWER PLUS. Turns out it is a bad choice to pick.
http://www.circare.org/FOIA/ATIPindex.htm
Severe adverse reactions between the investigational drug[s] and
prescription medications were known to the investigators, yet never
disclosed to prospective research subjects.Two instances of attempted suicide by patients using the
investigational drug were known to the investigators, yet they failed
to disclose this to prospective research subjects in the informed
consents.The informed consent for one pediatric study appears to have misled parents by claiming the investigational drug contained small amounts
of vitamins and minerals, when in fact the study dosage exceeded the
Upper Tolerable Intake Limits for Adults, never mind children, for
nearly one-third of the vitamin and mineral ingredients.Only one of the four informed consents warned subjects not to get
pregnant because the investigational drug contained high doses of
vitamin A, and so presented a risk of birth defects. Three informed
consents were utterly silent about this risk.None of the informed consents described the enormous risk of
relapsing bipolar disorder following cessation of pharmaceutical
treatment, nor did they disclose the fact that the investigational drug
might be intolerable or potentially toxic.In three of the four informed consents there was no indication that
the investigational drug contained vitamins and minerals in dosages
exceeding Upper Tolerable Intake Limits. The risks of prolonged intake
of mega-doses of vitamins and minerals were not disclosed, nor were the
circumstances of manufacture in the US as dietary supplements.An employee of the investigational drug's developer incorrectly
assured a representative of the Schizophrenia Society of Ontario that
the investigational drug was manufactured to pharmaceutical grade standards, as did the US distributor, for a time, on their web site.Prospective research subjects were potentially coerced into
enrolling in clinical trials by the over-zealous public pronouncements
of Dr. Kaplan, who, for example, made a public pronouncement at a
professional conference in London that she had cured bipolar disorder. This was picked up by Reuters and carried world-wide.Confidentiality due research subjects appears to have been violated
when, according to CTV reporter Avis Favaro, Dr. Kaplan provided her
with the name of a research subject enrolled in her clinical trial. Dr.
Kaplan and her research subject were interviewed on national television
to announce startling research results to be presented the next day as a poster at the 2000 annual meeting of the Canadian Psychiatric Association.
MORE.
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ahc-asc/media/advisories-avis /2003/2003_41bk_e.html
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