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“This being the case,” she said, “I urge you to recommend that these drugs have an appropriate black box warning placed on the label starting immediately.”Sandra Lucas, appeared at the hearing to speak on behalf of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, a psychiatric watchdog group, and told the panel, “we do know that the side effects of the stimulants are not only present, they are extremely serious and sometimes lethal.” “So,“ she asked the committee, “while the FDA ponders the problem of studying the issue and conducting the studies that may have inherent flaws, what real, immediate protections are to be put in place for parents and children?

”During the hearing, Drug Safety panel member, Dr Art Levin, told the committee, “I think we have to recognize that when a drug is approved and marketed the public assumes a level of comfort in the safety of that drug unless they are told otherwise.”“And, for us to sit around and talk about this,” he continued, “to have three advisory committee meetings discussing the signals and not to make, at the very least, a very strong warning to people that there is uncertainty here about the safety of these drugs and that they need to be aware of that pending clarification I just think is inappropriate, unethical behavior.”Committee member, Dr Steve Nissan advised, “we have to elevate the level of concern and if it slows the growth of this, that is probably appropriate because I think most observers would argue that ten per...

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“This being the case,” she said, “I urge you to recommend that these drugs have an appropriate black box warning placed on the label starting immediately.”Sandra Lucas, appeared at the hearing to speak on behalf of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, a psychiatric watchdog group, and told the panel, “we do know that the side effects of the stimulants are not only present, they are extremely serious and sometimes lethal.” “So,“ she asked the committee, “while the FDA ponders the problem of studying the issue and conducting the studies that may have inherent flaws, what real, immediate protections are to be put in place for parents and children?

”During the hearing, Drug Safety panel member, Dr Art Levin, told the committee, “I think we have to recognize that when a drug is approved and marketed the public assumes a level of comfort in the safety of that drug unless they are told otherwise.”“And, for us to sit around and talk about this,” he continued, “to have three advisory committee meetings discussing the signals and not to make, at the very least, a very strong warning to people that there is uncertainty here about the safety of these drugs and that they need to be aware of that pending clarification I just think is inappropriate, unethical behavior.”Committee member, Dr Steve Nissan advised, “we have to elevate the level of concern and if it slows the growth of this, that is probably appropriate because I think most observers would argue that ten per...

...ba href=/bipolar disorder/a/b, paranoia, schizophrenia and other related disorders are up to 23 times more likely to be the victims of violence but usually no more likely to commit it.

That may seem surprising in the wake of last week’s fatal shootings at a Pismo Beach Denny’s, when a handyman wandered into the restaurant and began unloading his handguns at random, killing two people and wounding two others before killing himself.

Psychology researchers and mental health experts say, however, that the image of mad murderers is primarily a fabrication of movies and the media.

"No, we don’t have a rash of mentally ill patients here (at the County Jail) on violent crime," said Kelly Kenitz, a Sheriff’s Department correctional lieutenant.

"People think that people with mental illness have a tendency to be violent, and that’s not true." What is true, she said, is that more people are landing in County Jail with mental disorders.

But their crimes aren’t violent — they’re being arrested for trespassing in empty buildings or causing public disturbances.

And that’s often because there aren’t enough mental health resources in the county, which is the result of a well-documented and long-standing funding shortfall.

"Basically," said RaeBelle Gambs, "we’re underfunded and we can’t treat people." Gambs heads the county chapter of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, and she’s also chairwoman of the county’s Mental Health Advi...