Casualties of drug research you haven't heard about, that could make your blood boil.
In February, a 19-year-old co-ed was one of 25 healthy patients who volunteered to be in a drug study to earn some extra money for her college tuition expenses. She had no history or clinical signs of depression, yet she hanged herself in the Eli Lilly research lab at Indiana University Medical School, where she had recently been taken off a larger than normal dose of a new antidepressant during a clinical trial.
A spokesman for the drug company claimed that they didn't feel the drug was responsible for the suicide - but did state that four other suicides had already occurred during the trials for this drug.
Oh, ho hum.
Research has its downside.
We do need drugs for depressed people, don't we?
If you are depressed or know someone who is, go to www.alternativementalhealth.com.
Get a safe solution to the problem. And I wouldn't be volunteering for drug trials of any kind. The risk of being a human guinea pig is just too great.
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